6A - Wednesday, April 9, 2014

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6A - Wednesday, April 9, 2014 The Michigan Daily - michigandailycom

Be a human
being, not a
human doing

Aspart of the Minor
in Writing program
at the University, I
took a class called "Art of the
Essay," which not only sup-
plied me
with ample
sentence
structure
and gram-
mar skills for
future col-
umn craft-
ing, but it CARLY
was just one KEYES
of those real
academic
experiences. I felt almost as if
we were more of a young club
of passionate ultra-literate
people who met twice weekly
to tell stories and talk about
all aspects of the written word
instead of just being a bunch
of undergraduates seeking
credits.
But, every week, twice a
week, as we entered the class-
room and casually checked in,
we all reported feeling two
things: busy and tired. If I
could have a dollar for every
time ... seriously.
It's far too easy to get swept
away in the faux allure of
being chronically busy and
constantly tired, morphing
into a human doing rather
than remain a human being,
and I am the guiltiest offender
when it comes to busyness and
self-inflicted fatigue.
Ihave a hard time saying no
to an academic or professional
commitment because some-
how I believe that if I'm busier
then it means I'm accomplish-.
ing more in life; if I'm tired
at the end of the day it means
I'm getting stuff done. Lately,
I've been taking on so many
creative projects, on top of a
full load of classes, that it's

resulted in a rest schedule of a
sporadic napping rather than
habitual sleeping.
Even now, I'm writing this
column entirely more last
minute than I typically like,
because I'm so damn busy
and tired ... and you are, too,
aren't you? It's that time of
year again. Final papers, final
exams, final projects - a slew
of final tests to gauge just how
well we've paid attention over
the semester.
But if there's one thing I've
learned, it's that some things
are just more important. I'm
not saying don't prepare for
your finals; I'm just saying
as you trudge this road to a
happy destiny, keep things in
perspective.
This past weekend, I had
two events planned that I'd
been looking forward to for
weeks, even months, and
when I realize that they had
come up already, my first,
inherent, fear-based reaction
was: "I might be too tired and
busy to go ..."
The first was a Pistons
game, and while I don't really
care for professional basket-
ball, I was going in a suite
with three of my best friends
in recovery who all live about
an hour away, and I don't get
to see them anywhere as much
as I'd like. The second was
a concert in Detroit, namely
Taking Back Sunday and The
Used, two bands my little sis-
ter and I have each cherished
for over a decade. My sister
also happens to be moving
to California in the fall, so I
knew that, after the summer
ends, this concert might be
one of our last together for a
while.
I went to the basketball
game; I went to the concert.

Did this take time? Yes. Hours
of my time that I could've
technically been using to
write pages for my full-length
script that's due in ten days or
editing my feet upon feet of
16mm footage or writing this
column. But taking a break
from being busy and tired
brought me exactly what you'd
expect: pause, energy, oppor-
tunities to breathe again.
Take time
to reset and
restore your
inner being.
For the first time in a long
time, I laughed and cheered
and jumped and sang and
danced, and I returned to my
previous state of busyness and
tiredness just a little more
free and invigorated. So, as
this is my last health and fit-
ness column of the semester,
I will leave one last piece of
direct advice: As you venture
into the end of April, tired and
busy, and then dive into your
summer internships and occu-
pations, to become even more
tired and even busier, don't
forget about your purpose.
Ask yourself if what you're
constantly working towards,
what you're constantly doing,
is worth it. And then, take in a
game, a concert, a movie, any-
thing ... to restore the human
being.
Keyes wants you to be all
forms of healthy. To tell her
about your progress, e-mail
cekmusicgumich.edu.

VAGRANT

Bart Simpson grown up.

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