Lists are used a lot in computer software. Lists are also used a lot in day-to-day life. “To do” lists come to mind. For me, my “Not to do” lists are what come to mind more often. As a person with countless hours of depression every day, it is hard to get away from “do not do”, “have not done” and similar lists. But I digress. Often. I meant to talk about lists like David Letterman’s Top 10 lists or Billboard Top 20, Top 40 etc. lists.
Today, someone who has helped me along in segments of my life’s journey reached out to me for some help, and indicated a need to use a set of lists to manage life. I’m not clear how this would work, despite my experience in software. Lists are not my specialty, obfuscation is. So what I grasped from said person’s explanation is to hand-pick, assuming you have enough hands or cheat using other limbs, 20 people, for example, from your Facebook or some other “meaningful” collection of friends and family members as your necessary and sufficient list of VIP’s in your life and cut out every one else as too much to deal with on a regular basis. I fear my explanation of this is more simplistic than how this may have been presented to me. I’m basing this more on my own addiction to some music channels where I enjoy frequently-played variations of Top 10, 20 or 40 collections based on various shuffled up themes. Anyway, this limitation would simplify life and time-management and bring positivity into one’s life. It wouldn’t be wasted on writing random blog posts like this or reading it for that matter. Of course, I’ve to wonder, as any programmer would do, what if one among the 20 doesn’t live up to expectations, or expected life-span as it is…should there be a waiting list or contingency list of 20 to quickly fill vacancies? I might ask the person when I am on their scheduled time slot next time, if I’m still on the list after this.
Going back to the benefit of such lists, if we really start looking into how much time we waste in our lives with petty things, like watching cable news, fighting on cyberland, buying homes only to get away from it on vacations to far away lands, would we learn to live smarter and find what we truly want to achieve in our lives and go on to achieve it without a lot of fanfare using list-based lifeology? I wonder…often.
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