a deadline moment

It seems that there is always a deadline.  Right now I have to write a blog post.  I enjoy blogging.  I enjoy sharing my thoughts with others and reading what others have to say.  But, right now it's just another deadline that I have to meet.  This one for my PR class.  (I really do like this Mandy.)  I had a deadline that I had to meet today for my computer class as well.

I just received an email from my boss (not God, he doesn't email me) about a deadline for some reports that are due.  I have a deadline for getting some new tires on the car before we can go home for Thanksgiving.  I really want to be deer hunting right now because there is a deadline for that as well, as the season will end soon.  Sunday is always coming and a meaningful sermon needs to be prepared before then.  The Advent and Christmas seasons are upon us.  The end of this semester is near.  Deadlines...in this moment - as I look at my day, my week, my month, my life - I see an endless string of deadlines. 

I like to know the meanings of words so I keep a dictionary close by.  I looked up the word deadline in the dictionary. 
    
     deadline n. 1. a time limit for the completion of an activity, etc.
          2. a line beyond which prisoners are not allowed to go.

Right now, it seems as though I am a prisoner to deadlines with no time to enjoy life because of them.  In a way we are all prisoners to time because we only have so much of it.  Once time is gone we can never get it back.  I recognize in this moment that I need a break.  I'm goin huntin.