24. the number of hours in a day.
60. the number of minutes per 24 hours in a day.
and as life continues to demand things by rigorous schedules and required places of meeting - i begin to think there are not enough hours in a day to make it all happen.
days beginning at 6:15.
classes from 9:00-3:15.
picking children up from school at 3:30 and playing until 6:00.
various things planned at night, depending on the day.
textbooks to be read.
papers to be written.
and in the midst of the rigorous to-be-accomplished-list - i find it incomplete.
papers begun but left unfinished.
phone conversations with great people bring about a welcomed interruption.
and time is made to talk about the events of our days and weeks.
stories exchanged. laughter had. sorrow shared.
exhaustion once again calls for the day to come to an end long before all that was planned has been conquered. wondering what life would be like if we were given more hours in a day. but perhaps it's what we do with the hours we've been given. and sometimes the beauty within that can be the sacrifice of things left undone to gain the depth of what interrupted it all.
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so i think that being the busy, consumerist americans that we are, we would just fill up those hours we are given. so i vote to keep the 24 hour mark of a day. i cant take much more than that anyways.
i hope these 24 hours are going well for you.
you fixed it so i can comment. thanks. i don't know why that means so much to me, but it really does. thank you.
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