I'm addicted to blogging! There, I've said it. Feels much better to get it out. I know all except one or two of the civilized world actually reads the posts that I've written over the last year or so, but for some reason I still love to see my stuff out there and thrill in the possibility that someone, anyone might actually read it and get something out of it.
I'm not organized enough to make it regular, and not willing to spend the money to have it linked up to the greater blogosphere, and for now I just consider myself a novice at this, but I can see sometime in the future that I will graduate to the next level and have regular posts on one of the many blogs that I have become something more than just my personal journal (phew! holy run-on sentence!).
This particular blog is just such a journal, any thoughts and observations that I might have the inclination to jot down. I have several others, but the main ones I've been paying attention too are Yahoo 360 and Livejournal.
The first step is admitting you have a problem, so there it is: blogging is my weakness!
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Friday, April 14, 2006
Keeping perspective
There are so many times I feel down on my luck, out of sorts, even outright depressed about the state of my affairs. Nothing anyone says seems to help, none of my remedies seem to work, and there seems to be no way out of the mood.
At these times, some perspective is needed. Call it the "Theory of Relativity". Every situation, no matter how dire, can be compared against some other situation we've heard about, some situation that's far worse than the one I'm in, and suddenly I don't seem so bad off. It's not a way to solve the issue that I'm having necessarily, although there may be lessons to learn, but more a way of easing the burden.
To take it a step further, it often suffices to just go out of my way to help someone who is obviously in some kind of difficulty, which then
takes my mind out of what I'm dealing with, even temporarily, and places it on something more productive.
The truth is, those moods I get in are what seem to be never-ending downward spirals: the more I think about it, stew on it, the worse I feel. And at the same time the situation is not getting any better.
Why am I sharing this? Don't know really, just thought someone may get something from it.
At these times, some perspective is needed. Call it the "Theory of Relativity". Every situation, no matter how dire, can be compared against some other situation we've heard about, some situation that's far worse than the one I'm in, and suddenly I don't seem so bad off. It's not a way to solve the issue that I'm having necessarily, although there may be lessons to learn, but more a way of easing the burden.
To take it a step further, it often suffices to just go out of my way to help someone who is obviously in some kind of difficulty, which then
takes my mind out of what I'm dealing with, even temporarily, and places it on something more productive.
The truth is, those moods I get in are what seem to be never-ending downward spirals: the more I think about it, stew on it, the worse I feel. And at the same time the situation is not getting any better.
Why am I sharing this? Don't know really, just thought someone may get something from it.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
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