While at Toastmasters this week, I had the priviledge of selecting the Word of the Day for the meeting. I chose "Frivolous".
(adjective)-
characterized by lack of seriousness or sense
eg, "frivolous conduct" -
of little or no weight, worth, or importance; not worthy of serious notice:
eg, "a frivolous suggestion"
There are several other explanations, but this was the one which caught my attention.
In my view, life is short and there are so many many real fun and real frivolous things I want to do. I truly want to do fun things, maybe even frivolous things. I really want to get to yet one more Nationals baseball game.
Good frivolous is going to a baseball game, especially if we win; or at least if it's a good tight game.
If I go with a vendor or a past or future client, then it's not even frivolous, right?!!!!
Frivolous is the buyer client who insists on settling on Monday the 31st, not Friday the 28th even though the short sale lender had insisted Friday the 28th. I get to "play" with this frivolous issue while the client is on vacation for 3+ weeks, returning home on the Thursday. I pounded my head for hours, every day. Finally got the lender & seller to agree to delay settlement until the 31st. Friday morning, buyer calls and suggests "you're right, let's do it today so I have the weekend to get going and it'll be much easier to be out of my rental by Monday". That was frivolous.
Frivolous is ..oh, dozens of recent inspection issues ...you know....those....
Frivolous is the appraiser who "decides" the home is over the lot line, and decides to ensure all parties in the contract are made aware of this info. Of course, he's not a surveyor and he's ultimately wrong, but the hours of stress to my clients (and me) was a frivolous use of time.
Frivolous is obsession attention to details. If you want lunch with me in 2 weeks, can we just agree that we'll do lunch, 1pm Friday the 19th. Details to be defined by mid morning that day. If we have 6 emails to nail down the details 2 weeks befoe, I'm not having fun.
I'd much prefer to prioritize my time, heighten my effeciency so as to allow for the maximum use of my frivolous time to be fun and just allow me to enjoy that time, rather than to think "why are we talking about this?".
What's your frivolous joy?
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