I learned a new word from a friend: KREPLITS
A unit of time and energy, love and affection that you have
to give yourself and others in your life. Everyone needs a certain amount to be
happy and content and everyone has a finite amount to give to others. Some need
more than others and some have more to give than others.
This immediately struck a chord with me. Hey! Why don’t more
people talk about this issue? It occurs me that I have never read an column or
article dedicated to this particular issue. The notion of time and energy
management has always been a side-mentioned issue while discussing the finer
points of communication.
In some circles there isn’t much talk about the strain
produced by the finite nature of the time and energy resources in our
relationships. Yet, it seems that the fact that
liking/loving/friendships/family by themselves are not finite resources is
blazoned on every poster you encounter. Friendship and love are not limited,
but too much of the stuff is not much better than a stack of paperwork piling
up in your inbox at the office. When are you going to find the time to sort
through all this crap?
My lack of addressing this issue, or properly gaining the
education required to handle such things could be my own problem. It’s only
recently, of course, that I have needed to worry about splitting my Kreplits
with people who I felt strongly enough about to actually give them a
significant portion of my assigned Kreplits. There are days that I still find
myself taking the crash-course in Time and Energy Management when it comes to
these relationships.
Thank goodness someone is putting an easily identifiable
word behind the overly-complex issue of time and energy unit distribution. My
Kreplits are valuable and scarce, and I have no qualms saying that my friends
and family definitely worth the Kreplits.
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