Why We Need Spare Time

If a person (adult of child) is too busy they don't have time for the freedom required for creative pursuits and to think and ponder.

I enjoyed this post at Mental Multivitamin that talks about an article about Leonardo DaVinci.

A "pattern of seemingly nonproductive creativity"

The quote below is from the article mentioned by Mental Multivitamin: How to Procrastinate Like Leonardo da Vinci.

"On his deathbed, they say, Leonardo da Vinci regretted that he had left so much unfinished.

Leonardo had so many ideas; he was so ahead of his time."

This also relates to "so many ideas, so little time" which is something that I have been struggling with in these last few weeks. (I'm not a genius and I'm not da Vinci but it got me thinking.)

The best I can do is try to set priorities, then with my time, try to spend time putting into action the things that I decided were most worthwhile. I need time too, to relax. I need open patches of time to breathe. I can't have every waking minute pre-scheduled and planned, being akin to a robot with a prescheduled totally efficient workday. My children are the same way, they need 'margin' in their lives too. One of the hardest things for me is making time to do what is necessary versus what should be done in a best case scenerio and leaving time for fun or just to breathe or time to recover from the flu and so forth. A balance between the necessary things and the want-to-do's. Time to relax and unwind is necessary also.