The Roller Coaster Ride
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I hate to complain but I do not feel well this morning. And isn’t that the way it goes? We are having a great time and things just continue to get better and then we hit the crest of our particular experience and head down. We can’t go up forever.
It’s just the way it is and it pays to accept the fact and try to enjoy the ride. So I have this scratchy irritation in my throat and my body feels about fifty pounds heavier. My stomach is rumbling and the computer is not working well. The hard drive sounds very loud. And then the metal chain in the toilet broke and now I have this black stuff under my fingernails from trying to fix it. What is that stuff anyway? It accumulates on the rubber parts inside the tank. So the temperature outside has probably reached one hundred degrees already like it did yesterday. And I have to go to the hardware store for parts.
Also Big Brown did not win the Kentucky Derby because he apparently was feeling yesterday the way I feel today. What’s wrong with him? Nobody knows. Maybe his roller coaster ride hit the crest on Friday and was on the way down yesterday. Too bad he didn’t mention it to anybody. A lot of folks are on the way down today as they think about how much money they lost on Mr. Brown.
What do you do when you feel events turning in this direction? Please tell me. I would really like to know. But until someone gives me another idea that sounds better here’s the one I use.
I try to find something to do that I always enjoy doing. But it has to be a simple task. And it cannot involve anyone else because they may not want to participate.
Well I am feeling better now and the fact that I am writing this post is evidence of that. Why the turnaround? Because I found some photos from a wonderful day we had last summer and posted them over at PhotoLinkLove dot com. Posting photos takes me to a time and place that was very happy. It also increases the value of my blog. ( So would adding categories and tags but that would not solve the problem). It’s my theory that if you can’t find a way to do this you won’t be a blogger for a long while. And it explains why I have nearly one thousand posts in less than a year of blogging on one blog. And why I also have two other blogs.
I had a discussion yesterday about blogging and fumbled around trying to come up with something worthwhile to say. But what I really wanted to say was this. Find something you truly enjoy about this activity. Something that doesn’t require a lot of skill or sometimes lead to frustration. Something that doesn’t depend on another living soul. And do it when you can’t figure out what to do! Or you are just feeling bad.
At times like this don’t try to plan too much. Try to enjoy the day. Enjoy the ride. Nobody plans a roller coaster ride.
They just take one.
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