A Time to LOL (also called A Day Late, but Maybe that was Planned)

"For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
A time to be born, and a time to die;
A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; 
A time to kill, and a time to heal;
A time to break down, and a time to build up;
A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
A time to mourn, and a time to dance;
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together;
A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
A time to seek, and a time to lose;
A time to keep, and a time to cast away;
A time to tear, and a time to sew;
A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; 
A time to love, and a time to hate;
A time for war, and a time for peace."

A time to play LOL, and a time to read books;
A time to watch movies, and a time to write blogs.

Something that I find to be important to point out before I continue this blog is that LOL = League of Legends, which is a free online video game. Now to the content.

This passages from Ecclesiastes is one that always gives me a lot to think about. I've heard it said that this section is just an observation that the world goes through phases, and that we can expect things to change. But as I've had time to think on it, I've come to believe that this is only a part of what the passage means.

Have you ever needed a day off? I'm sure you have; everyone needs rest. But have you ever done nothing on your day off and then felt worse off for it? You spend the day resting, watching television, catching up on your reading, but then feel like crap at the end of the day.

I am a person who tends to fill gaps in his life by engorging in excess. So this might be exclusive for me, but on my days off, I usually do an excessive amount of nothing. If I'm sad, I tend to have an excessive amount of food or drink to make up for it. If I'm bored, I play an excessive amount of LOL. If I'm lonely, I spend an excessive amount of time looking for company. This tends to make me feel good in the moment, but it never really addresses what I have been feeling at the time. Indulging in this excess keeps me even from recognizing what it is that I need.
I sometimes have problems recognizing what I need at the time that I need it.


There is a time to play a lot of LOL, but it's not when I'm bored. When I am bored, I need to find something beautiful or remember why something is beautiful or interesting. The solution to boredom is not excessive relaxation, but becoming interested in something. The solution to loneliness is finding how you are valuable. The solution to sadness is grieving then moving past it. What you're supposed to do on your day off is relax, not nothing.


Yesterday was a time for me to see a movie with a friend, not write a blog. But a day late is better than none at all, right?

There is a time for everything, but I've begun to realize that you need to recognize the time so you can begin to fall in line with it. It's frustrating when things get in the way of what we want to do, but it is detrimental when we aren't able to do what we need to do. It is when we don't know what we need and ignore it that we begin to waste our time and feel like crap at the end of the day.

At least, that is what I think about it.