I’ve recently discovered two of my favorite social networking fopauxs. (This is how the Internet told me to spell “fopaux”
One: When people post a status on facebook, immediately recognize a spelling and/or grammar mistake, and then repost the status with the correction made. It’s like the Internet equivalent to watching someone semi-trip over something and then act like nothing happened.
Two: When bloggers come back from a long hiatus and feel the need to explain why they haven’t written anything for a while. (This is exactly what I am doing right now) Let’s be honest, how many people actually notice that we have been gone and do we really think that this will be the last time we will have to explain ourselves?
Anyway, it is good to be back! It’s hard for me to believe that I have been living in Ohio for over a year now. So much has happened, so much has changed and it’s only been 13 months.
It has had me thinking a lot about the passing of time. It can be unsettling. Now, I know I’m only 26, but it feels like I can still reach out and touch 16. Ten years feels like an afternoon sometimes.
Growing up is a lot like reading a really good book. I rarely finish a book, and at any given time there are probably 3 books that I’ve half-read. So when I actually find myself coming down the homestretch and about to finish one, I feel like I’m accomplishing something, and I like that. But then on the other hand as I’m coming to the end of the book, I can get a little sad, like I’m not ready for it to end. Kind of like how I used to feel after I watched the Never Ending Story when I was kid. I didn’t think it was supposed to end. Am I getting ripped off?
Anyway, it can feel like time really does just run through your fingers and we can be too distracted to notice it. There really is so much going on all the time, all around us. I want to learn how to soak it all up. I want to pay attention to all of it.
I do a lot of waiting. It never seems to be the right time. I think that is just a lie I tell myself so that I don’t feel bad about the time that I’m wasting. I’ve said this before, but I hope to live in a way that leaves the “future me” with hardly any regrets.
It’s good to be back. Thanks for reading.
Hey man…just wanted to let you know that I notice when you don’t write! and I notice when your wife doesn’t write either…
You’ve both got a lot of good stuff to say….with a lot of good stuff the students need to hear!! so keep at it! ….or I’ll send you random emails to pester you to write!!!!