I don’t know who said “Anything worth doing is worth overdoing”.
Life is about overdoing it without getting in the way of yourself or others. This idea came to me as I was falling asleep last night (May 5, 2019). I woke with it, so I figured it must be important enough to write down and explore when I have a bit more time. This probably isn’t an exact quote from the Baltimore Catechist, but I really think it fits in with the idea ‘God loves us and wants us to be happy’.
“Overdoing it” here means do whatever you can do to the point of joy and "without getting in the way” would mean overdoing it to the point of sin (Pride, Envy, Anger, Sloth, Avarice, Gluttony, or Lust).
Time…now there is something you can’t overdo. And if I let others dictate my time have I given-up God’s gift of free will? But if I have never give my time to others, how am I part of a community?
It is not that “no man is an island” (John Dunne, “Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions: Meditation XVII (17)”, 1624), but rather ‘no person is human until experiencing another human’.
Can one be in communion with God if one has never been part of a community? Does loosing one’s sense of community open one to sin? There is something here I need to explore; something between community and contentment; between individualism and our endless pursuit of happiness.