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Smooth Sailing

Wednesday Jan 19, 2005

Why do we find it so difficult to take the time out to reflect on life when life is going well? Why do I find it so difficult to savour life when nothing in it is seemingly sour? Do I really prefer climbing mountains to cruise control?

Discipline is an art. The greatest child of said art is productivity. But routine, discipline's preferred avenue of enforcement, can oft be the death of creativity. If I forced myself to write a song right now this very moment, I dare suggest that it would be a mediocre or worse yet a piece of crap song.

I love commas. If you ever find yourself declaring that same love be sure to ennunciate. You wouldn't want to anger folks. Anyway, commas. I'm never sure I'm using them properly. I mean when we were younger we were taught all these crazy rules but then our teachers had us read tons of books and poems that just followed their own rules. I mean between ee cummings and William Faulkner, I just don't know what the hell to do with my punctuation any more.

Back to the smooth seas discussion, or I suppose monologue since its just me in here. When telling the story of my life usually people offer sincere condolences on my various losses. And almost like an automatic response I explain that if it hadn't been for the bad times there may have been no good.

I believe life is 100% about perspective. There are a million ways to look at any one situation and you can always choose a positive one. This is not an easy thing to do. One must first have perspective which I believe comes from either suffering pain or empathising and understanding the hurt of others. With that frame of reference you can see the good in anything. Without the sour we wouldn't know the sweet.

Alot of new things are going on in my life right now. Most of them work related and a some social...All of them wonderful. None of which I can discuss here for now. I will bring them to your attention when the time is right. For now I'm just going to focus on enjoying the wind in my hair instead of seeking out my next mountain.

I didn't use spellcheck....how did I do critical ones?