Looking Onward
I typically don’t enjoy the present. It’s not that I hate it, I just infrequently find it out of the ordinary. But the curious thing is that I have countless extraordinary memories of the past. Logic would deduce that non-enjoyable (not necessarily unenjoyable) memories in the present would retain that quality in the past. It strangely isn’t so.
One year ago, today, I was in Chicago with Sammy visiting our good friend Brandon O’Brien. It was my 22nd birthday and I wished that it wasn’t. I don’t usually like to be given extra attention, but I especially didn’t on this particular day. It was one of those days where the littlest things drive you nuts. Nonetheless, Sammy and I set out to make something of the day. We found ourselves at a cold Lake Michigan and Sammy suggested a birthday swim. I reluctantly got in with the handful of other loonies braving the frigid water. Not necessarily what I would have chosen to do, but now I can look back on it with fondness.
When something’s supposed to be special, I tend to get too caught up in it being so that I overlook its specialness. Though I do have tons of wonderful memories that are invitingly summoned to mind, I can’t help but think of how many things I miss or how much greater some of these memories could have been. This has been added to the list of things that I need to work on. Good thing I’m still less than a quarter century old.
On Titles
Titles are the biggest deterrent to my blogging. I'll have an idea and start to run with it until I ask myself what the title might be. I then sigh and get on with my non-digital life. Blogging is like writing in a public diary, who titles their journal page? (If you do, don't say anything because it nullifies my point.)
There was a period of time where my titles were just the date. I believe I was a more thoughtful blogger back in those days because I wasn't wasting my energies attempting to summarize my scattered thoughts in 5 words. For a while I would just use the title of whatever song was in my head (typically Simon & Garfunkel). I was really just trying to make people think that I came up with a beautifully poetic phrase that perfectly summarized the content of my post.
All that to say I might do away with titles. But then I would have to blog better and more frequently. We'll see what comes of this..
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