People who say they don’t like to sit around

I am involved in bringing a car load of food from our local food pantry once a week to share with my neighbors.

I didn't start doing it because I need to keep busy. I started doing it when I saw a sign posted in my apartment building that said the Salvation Army would NOT be delivering food to income challenged residents in my apartment building for the months of November and December!

I'm not sure why, but that made me VERY angry! The thought that for two months out of every year the only food the poor people living in my apartment building would receive was ONE turkey dinner which would have to last them for 30 days...well...I got furiously angry.

Ever since, I have been driving to the local food pantry and bringing back a car load of food every week...and unfortunately, that has expanded to bringing food to a friend who can't see well enough to drive anymore...and double triple unfortunately, it has also expanded to working two additional days every month cleaning out the community room fridge. If it wasn't cleaned once a week it would fill up with rotten food.

Just to let you know...there are many, many days when I DON'T want to go out, and I DON'T want to do any of it. But for Pete's sake...there are people living here who can't drive to get food at the food pantry themselves if they run short at the end of the month.

People are different and most are doing what they have to do to survive. For some that does mean volunteering and all kinds of other activities. Doesn’t necessarily make them a superior being, they’re just looking for fulfillment and yes, sometimes to fill a void in their lives. My mom was like that, she just had to keep busy. While others are content being homebodies. Again, most people are just doing the best they can to get by.

I have 3 kids so I'm always on the go. And don't get me wrong I love taking them to do things, play sports and school activities, parks, zoo's but I if I didn't have to I would stay home most of the time. I prefer to sit by a fire, listen to jazz and enjoy a cigar and whiskey.

I don’t like to sit around because for one I have obese people in my family so I know what can happen to you when you just sit around and don’t move.

I think accepting who you are is invaluable ✨

Escapists. They need to be busy all the time because they are running away from something in themselves.