Scheduled

Marsha and I were both school teachers. Marsha for obviously a much longer time than I was, but we both taught school for some time. That life was very scheduled, even more when I had to hold extra jobs so that the budget worked properly. Many good things happen when life is scheduled. You don't have to think much about what to do because it is preplanned. Often the difficulty is fitting in the things that are not part of the schedule and they can be the things you really want to do. After teaching when I became a fulltime priest and rector I had a schedule but it was definitely flexible. I worked a lot of hours and lived always on call, but I could amend my day at almost any time to include something that might just happen. I have to say that life fit my personality better than the scheduled life of a teacher. I think some people could be lazy without a definite schedule but that was hardly my problem. After I retired my life became even less scheduled and with Marsha's death I really don't have to schedule anything at any time unless I choose. It would seem like time would be a problem, like too much of it, but like the rest of my life that is not an issue now either. I have a few touch points scheduled that I have committed myself to, but they are few in number. I've had people in the past say to me that they are bored, and my almost instinctive reply has been, "Only boring people get bored." It was really a sarcastic answer and I obviously don't mean it, at least not completely. But I can avoid boredom just sitting around thinking so I guess I don't understand boredom. I do like life without a schedule though.