Down Time

Down time.  It's a rare occasion that we find ourselves without a plan, without a commitment, without a place to be.  When you're 14, you find you have too much down time.  You'd rather be out and about, hanging with friends and on the go.  When you're 17, you have so many commitments with school, work, friends and dating that you appreciate down time once in a while.  When you become a parent, you start to forget what down time is.  And if you're like me, when you do have a little time, you find other things to do.  Whether it be work, laundry, new projects...well, you get the idea.  So when Jeff thought I might need a little down time and offered to bring me with him to Ft. Worth, I got a little worried.  All I could think of was all of the other things I could be doing with my time.  But maybe Jeff was right.  I got a full nights sleep, finished a book, watched a movie and surfed the internet endlessly.  I've also laughed more in the last 24 hours than I have in the last 24 days.  The moral of the story?  When you think you don't need any down time, it's probably the time you need it most.  And if someone points out that you need it...you probably do.