Fresh Air and Time Lost
Have you ever felt the need to get some “fresh air?” I suspect most people have. What about feeling the moments of “time lost?” Again, who hasn’t felt they lived a wasted day or two? I’m feeling both during these past weeks. After attending a class a week ago, it occurred to me that I didn’t want to go back to it. I will finish the MBA a little later than I originally thought. That is okay. Today, I’m relaxing in San Diego while visiting family. It isn’t being here at creates the feeling of lost time. Rather, it is the constant never ending feeling of what haven’t I done that I should be doing on behalf of ASEP. There is also the feeling that goes along with what have I done that needs correcting. Frankly, both confuse me and wear me out at times.
Fresh air is good and feeling that everything is coming together helps with living the moment. Writing is good too, especially since it allows me to put my thoughts online. It doesn’t have anything to do with someone reading them. It is more of a journal approach to what I’m feeling right now. And, as I look out the window of my daughter’s house, I wonder what other ASEP members are doing. Are they thinking about ASEP and the professionalism of exercise physiology 24/7, and the answer I usually feel is mixed with both good and sad feelings. I wish that I could be more optimistic and otherwise a better thinker. If only I could write or think with such strategic influence that others would stop in their tracks or demonstrate such intuition that a friend might say occasionally…wow!
But that is not the case. Even now after sending the publisher a nearly 700 page manuscript on the professionalism of exercise physiology, I wonder what it was all about. How many libraries will purchase it? How many exercise physiologists will care to read it? I need some fresh air…maybe from writing, maybe from my friends, which reminds me…where are they? How many have gone on to the so-called bigger and better things? How many have given in to the need to move on? And, how many who just throw their hands up unwilling to take on a different way of thinking? All and more are relevant questions that define in a way the time lost in their presence in the past. Oh well, no one said that change is easy. It is rare to find that a dream of something better simply falls into your hands.
However ironic or otherwise viewed, just because an idea like ASEP is right doesn’t mean that everyone is going to sign up and support the main purpose of the organization. Perhaps, it is necessary to re-read that sentence Tommy, yes, me! So, get some fresh air, that is, do something different. ASEP isn’t going away. The world isn’t going to end anytime soon. Get over the time lost feeling. The infrastructure is in place. Standardization and all such thinking consistent with other established professions are in place. Probably the most important lesson for all of us is the importance of being friends and simply exchanging kind words and sharing information.