DailyJim: Time of day affects me

Hello, everyone welcome to another daily gym. It is obviously jim Clyburn's, it is Tuesday May 3rd 2022 it's about 11 40 at night here in michigan and you know, I was reflecting on just how. Doing this audio late at night, it seems to spur me to talk about different things. So if I were to do this, you know, right when I woke up in the morning or if I was to do this around noon or if I would do this at different times throughout the day, I think that there are different things I would talk about. Um so going into this, I was thinking okay, I'm gonna try to talk about what happened with there was a leak of a draft document on a ruling that the Supreme Court was going to have in the US about abortion rights, and I was thinking okay I'm gonna talk about that, but then I'm I'm tired. It's been a long day of a lot of news happening. Um it's it's almost midnight and just you know, sitting here watching some basketball and thinking. I'm not really feeling that that vibe in the moment and it makes me wonder just how much, others I mean myself included, we force ourselves to talk about something or to do something even though we are not in the mood for it. Um arguably people say, oh but that's discipline, you need to do what you don't want to do. And there's a whole school of thought and philosophy built around doing what we don't actually want to do. I I'm not such a big fan of that. I mean, I think I, growing up I could be so incredibly disciplined at times and I still can be, I can be really, really focused and forced on doing something, even though I don't, um, necessarily want to do it in the moment. But I try more and more to. Really connect and go with the flow. So like right now I don't, it's gonna want to talk too much about Supreme Court cases or war or um a lot of the pain and the chaos that's happening in the news, I don't know, I just kind of want to sit here and watch basketball and reflect on, you know, watching the Golden State Warriors, I used to live in Oakland California and I was there when they started to win some of their first championships and just being there and going outside and, seeing the parade go by my apartment building and so many people out in the streets partying. Um actually, that was in contrast to some of the protests that were happening in the streets previously around the same time. So to go from seeing people protesting, it was like when Black Lives Matter was just starting to see kind of nightly protests, where there's a lot of anger to seeing, protests where there was a lot of joy and unity, you know, so I'm just sitting here watching the Warriors kind of reflecting on that and just thinking that.

I don't know, sports can really divide us, but sometimes they can really bring us together and Mhm I don't know, just that we have.

Different things that we want to do at different times of the day and often, yeah, like often I think sometimes I will, you know, my body is saying, okay, the sun has gone down, it's time to go to bed, you kind of want to relax, slow down, but like last night I stayed up way too late trying to figure out, a way to have some computer things. So basically after I upload these audios for the transcript of the audio to not only get, you know, for it to get transcribed, but to automatically get put into the post and make it interactive like boom, boom, boom automatic. And I was up super early working on that and so kind of that maybe it's a conflict of things that I want, wanting my body wanting to sleep because the time, like I said, the sun going down and just the natural almost de crescendo of the day. And yet we also wanting to get this computer thing done so that I can kind of get on with it and focus more on the recording of the audios, I don't know. Mhm I think.

I think a lot of us are fighting having these internal conflicts and feel torn but our body says do one thing whether it's to slow down or speed up or drink more water exercise more and then, our brain or our heart or something saying no, no, no, but you got to do this other thing and just the contrast that comes from that, so it's five minutes I'm going to slow down, put the basketball game back on and talk to you all soon, have a good night or day or whatever, wherever you are.