Saturday Morning Fever

Ah, it's a lazy Saturday morning for once in my life.  I have a morning off from volunteer work, I completed an essay for uni yesterday afternoon, and I am consequently treating myself to a home alone morning while the girls are out roller skating.  This of course involves listening to the music on rage on the telly, and surfing the net and blogging.  All this is accompanied by several nice hot cups of tea.  I am also tempted to go enjoy some sun in the garden and bash out a painting while I let the cats wander round and get some fresh air and sunshine.

So this week was the culmination of a very busy fortnight.  At work we had three 40 foot containers full of furniture arrive, which not only had to be emptied out of said containers, but then loaded up into the truck and delivered to various freight depots across Brisbane.

On top of this I was struggling to find time and motivation to complete an essay on Kant's idea of the Categorical Imperative and his hypothetical example of the inquiring murderer.  It's a tricky thought exercise, but in the end we have to remember that while Kant's ethics are ideals, this is an imperfect world and often our morality and rules are similarly imperfect and flawed.  Idealism is capable of only being a guide to our behaviour, something a lot of religious fundamentalists haven't quite managed to get.  In the end there are no hard and fast rules that determine morality, there are guiding principles and ethical ideals, but to try and follow them to the letter on all situations is a recipe for losing your humanity.


In that spirit then, I am going to spend a day reclaiming my humanity and getting out and relaxing away from regular duties to art and study and enjoying some time with family.  Duty and responsibility are important, and we need to work hard at them, but we also have a responsibility and duty to ourselves, to tend our souls and our relationships with family and friends.