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By Meg Miller | Friday,
January 30, 2015 - Off the Shelf
It’s a new year, a time for resolutions, and mine are as
ambitious and unlikely to succeed as ever. Most of them involve perfecting
methods of organization that will allow me to fit more work into tinier
amounts of time. A year of lifehacks in which efficiency is key, every inch
of 2015 will be used for something productive, each increment of time
carefully charted out. My days will be like little bento boxes, with
appropriately sized compartments for time spent working, swimming laps,
writing, reading, yoga, movie-watching, and cooking (sleeping?).
Not even halfway into the month my resolve has already faltered;
all it took was rereading Bel Canto by Ann Patchett to realize that life is
not meant to be hacked. Set somewhere in South America at a birthday party
hosted by the country’s vice president, Bel Canto is the most meditative,
elegant, dreamlike hostage-takeover novel you will ever read. When terrorists
break into the party and hold everyone for ransom, the worlds of captors and
captives alike shrink to the size of the vice president’s living room and for
weeks on end there is nothing but four walls and a seemingly endless expanse
of time. As the days wear on, restless waiting and wanting become blissful
time for reflection, for learning other languages, for listening to music,
and for truly understanding and appreciating the others in the house, despite
their differences.
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