Hello 2016!
So one of my new years resolutions is to start blogging again. And so here I am. Of course with me, nothing is ever easy and it basically took me all day to remember the email address and password that I used to start this here bloggy thing, but I'm BACK!
So resolutions. A good thing or a bad thing? Personally I'm on the fence about them. But I had an odd conversation the other night about resolutions. I was at dinner with some friends and they had another friend there (let's call him Jim). After some sort of depressing dinner conversation I thought I would spin the subject wheel and ask people what their New Years Resolutions were. Easy enough right? A little light hearted conversation starter, right?
So I think I started first and said what my resolutions are (more focus on health, travel new places, blog again). And Jim sort of interrupts me to ask why I'm not happy with myself. And that's where the conversation sort of went off the rails. It's not that I'm not happy with myself, in general, but that there are some things I'd like to do to make me better. And Jim didn't want to believe me. He stated that he was perfectly happy with his life and that he didn't think he needed to make any changes in his life. And that's a perfectly fine answer, but for me I'm not particularly happy with the status quo so I'd like to make some changes. Even his other friends were agreeing with me but the whole conversation was just a bit bizarro.
And I think as I approach a certain life milestone (cough, 50, cough) I think that if there are things that I can do to make myself better, to make myself feel better, then why shouldn't I be trying to make some changes.
I've seen the new Star Wars twice now and they've shown the Kung Fu Panda 3 trailer both times. In the trailer the old master says to the panda hero: "If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now." And I know that sounds like a bit of cliche, but it sort of resonated with me. I want to be more than what I am now.
So resolutions. A good thing or a bad thing? Personally I'm on the fence about them. But I had an odd conversation the other night about resolutions. I was at dinner with some friends and they had another friend there (let's call him Jim). After some sort of depressing dinner conversation I thought I would spin the subject wheel and ask people what their New Years Resolutions were. Easy enough right? A little light hearted conversation starter, right?
So I think I started first and said what my resolutions are (more focus on health, travel new places, blog again). And Jim sort of interrupts me to ask why I'm not happy with myself. And that's where the conversation sort of went off the rails. It's not that I'm not happy with myself, in general, but that there are some things I'd like to do to make me better. And Jim didn't want to believe me. He stated that he was perfectly happy with his life and that he didn't think he needed to make any changes in his life. And that's a perfectly fine answer, but for me I'm not particularly happy with the status quo so I'd like to make some changes. Even his other friends were agreeing with me but the whole conversation was just a bit bizarro.
And I think as I approach a certain life milestone (cough, 50, cough) I think that if there are things that I can do to make myself better, to make myself feel better, then why shouldn't I be trying to make some changes.
I've seen the new Star Wars twice now and they've shown the Kung Fu Panda 3 trailer both times. In the trailer the old master says to the panda hero: "If you only do what you can do, you'll never be more than you are now." And I know that sounds like a bit of cliche, but it sort of resonated with me. I want to be more than what I am now.