This idea came to me as I munched on a Buddha pizza ('one with everything') - hoho!
Actually, I have meditated on and off but only in a rather haphazard and uncommitted manner and never for more than a week at a time. Even for those short periods though I felt that I got better at it. Initially the mind wanders like a drunk who's missed the last bus home and it's practically impossible to take consecutive breaths without recounting an argument you had this morning or wondering if you've left the gas on in the kitchen. And you hear all sorts of things going on in your supposedly-empty house. But after a couple of sessions I did start to string a few breaths together and once or twice actually felt a sense of calm at the end of my 15-minute session.
To meditate for three hours is a whole different cup of haiku of course. I actually started some meditation this last week - just 10 minutes of breath-counting per day - but I think I should meditate twice per day if I am going to develop the focus necessary to gradually stretch the sessions. And I should add a minute per day to those sessions to work towards the 180 minutes I will eventually hopefully do.
One thought just sprung to mind (lucky then that I wasn't meditating): I'm unemployed as I write this but if, as I hope, I get a job soon I'm not sure how I will be able to schedule long sessions of quiet meditating time into my day. Finding an hour of quiet once a day will be tough - more than that will require some careful planning. I'll cross that bridge when I come to it I suppose. In the meantime this evening I will meditate and tomorrow I will start meditating twice per day.
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