| What we do | What we should do |
| Looking | Seeing |
| Hearing | Listening |
| Taking a walk | Experiencing nature |
| Going for the grade | Learning |
| Waiting for the other person to stop talking so you can talk, talk, talk about yourself | Listening |
| Playing a card game | Spending quality time with a child |
| Blaming others for our crap | Realize our mistake and learn from it |
I think that part of the reason we are prone to do the left column of the above table is that we are such a busy society. We have created all of these wonderful gadgets to make work easier (computers, washers, dryers, microwaves, drive thrus, etc). However, all it has done is given us more time to pile more crap into our lives. Sometimes it's our boss expecting more from us since the company installed a new software suite that cuts our workload by 10%. Sometimes we do it to ourselves so we can impress others with the laundry list of crap we've done / are doing. We have to keep up with the Smiths, right???
When we pile all of this on ourselves, all we do is limit the quality of each thing... we don't have time to stop and smell the roses anymore because we're worrying about the 20 other things on our list and how we'll accomplish them on time. Everything then becomes something we have to do, and nothing we want to do just for fun.
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