"THE TROUBLE WITH TIME"
by Kiki Bragard
aka Thundercrackk(A decade ago, one of the most popular women with LadySports Magazine readers was the German wrestler known as Thundercrackk. After several years competing in both Europe and Japan…where she went from apprentice to manager of the great Yoshiaki Fujiwara…Thundercrackk decided to hang up her boots and focus on her lifelong passion, painting. As an artist, she was soon holding celebrated gallery showings in Tokyo, and several years later returned to Europe, where she continues to enjoy tremendous critical success. The following is an essay which Kiki has gracious written for LadySports Online in reflection of the end of 2005 and the start of a new year.) Once upon a time, time started to run. Once upon a time, I was a fit athlete and managed to catch up with time, but now those two times one and a half hours in the gym don't make me fit enough to catch up, it seems. Everyone seems to have the same problem; time is running too fast! Years ago I only had an alarm clock and a Walkman. Now I have so many electric appliances that I could fill the shelves of a small store. Each appliance comes with a thick handbook. Studying these many handbooks takes lots of time. I have 3 separate phones with separate phone lines and I have a mobile phone. I don't have the time to look up every number I have to call in my paper address book, so I stored all the home, work and mobile numbers of every person in every phone, which took an awful lot of time. Time has me in its claws! I have a clock in every room just to save me time not having to run to another room to find out what time it is. Time drives me crazy. I and my family have so many appointments every week that I must keep an eye on time to leave in time to get there on time. Doctors’ appointments, work, food shopping, and other errands take up way too much time, which leaves me with not enough time to relax and spent positive time with friends. It' not a "getting older" thing anymore. Even kids have so many appointments these days that they don't even have the time to hang around and play as they should. What has happened to us? Does anyone know? I would love to have the time I used to have in the 80's and 90's! I don't want to have all these time-consuming appliances and appointments around me. I want to have the time to come to myself, relax, bake cookies with my daughter, go for a walk with my family, watch the stars on a clear night, feed ducks in the park, go shopping with friends, read books and stories, spend half a day at the hairdresser, listen to everyone’s chit chat, live stories, and I want more time to paint, and write to friends. Oh, and I want to have more time to try out recipes from around the world, and I want to have more time to also travel and see friends for a few days. But then again they need to have the time too. But as everyone seems to have the same problem with time, it's hard to fix a time. Having said that, just this morning I bought a little electric thing on sale that makes different natural soothing sounds, to help me relax - as soon as I have the time to read the instruction manual to get it to work! So please Dear Time, let me go out of your claws! Let me become a real human again! |
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