This is my first month on Bloggerstock, aka to me as a shining diamond among the dozens of blog rings out there in the blogosphere. I am truly honored to join in writing with this group of talented and passionate bloggers. If you check out the founders on their site, I think you'd agree with my assessment of their abilities as well. For the month of March, the theme was "Stop the World, I want to get on/off!".
Much to my delight, I get to host the lovely Kris from Because or Why Not. She is part of the Bloggerstock founding group (read: awesome) and a great blogger to boot. Here is her post. If you'd like to read up on my own on this topic, I am over on Dom's blog - Lije's Mindstate. So without further interruption, here's Kris:
I think I'm the minority but I've always been glad life doesn't come equipped with a fast forward or rewind buttons. If I had access to these options I would abuse the crap out of them. I'd probably still be nine years old just reliving a few of those years over and over. Blithely skipping, of course, the times I cried over my math or wasn't allowed to go play with friends. That's pretty much what life was like at nine. Then there would be the temptation of fast forwarding before making even the most minor of decisions. Or skipping out on all the "character building" moments in life. C'mon, you know you'd do the same.
But a pause button... A pause button is a concept I can get behind. I don't see much evil that could be accomplished through being allowed to stop my world. It would just give me the option of accomplishing so much more in a short amount of time. Like writing this post, for example. I could push pause, cook dinner, type this out, maybe have a nap, and still be fresh to go out this evening. Yeah, I'm all over that.
Or maybe I could use it to stretch out the good times. Good company? Pause that. Enjoy the conversation for hours and still be in bed by midnight. Awesome fresh chocolate chip cookies? Just hit pause and be eating them as long as you like, all for 100 calories.
In short, I could use more time. More time to live life like I want to live it. More time to sort out all the things that overload me all at once. A chance to accomplish everything I know I could and still be lazy. Time to snowboard every weekend and make my occasional work-free days stretch for glorious eternity.
Yes, a pause button is an idea I wouldn't mind.
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Kris has done many things, but very few of them permanently. A bit of a commitment-phobe she now records many of her musings over at Because or Why Not, something she has stuck by remarkably well. Currently she's just a small-town girl with a lust for adventure. It would seem that's, ultimately, her lot in life.
