December 13, 2004

Life's little uncertainties

I was speaking to an old friend and it got me thinking how interesting life's little curves can be. Sometimes our past is never really in our past and sometimes we don't know what we want until we don't have it anymore. I guess that is a verbose way of saying "We don't know what we have until its gone". But, I am not talking about the reason you all may think. I guess I was thinking that while life can open doors and close doors, the ones we have to be careful of are the doors where we stay neither "in" nor "out". Then again, they say the best place to sit out a hurricane is in the door jamb, so maybe there is some safety there. I was thinking that life is a series of constant re-evaluations of our motives for change. Why did I leave the job that I never realized how much I enjoyed, why did I leave the town I now to which I now long to return; why did I leave the girl I now miss. I know the obvious answer is that grass always looks greener on the other side, and without fail, things are always better than you thought they were. Deep thoughts to ponder during a long, hard winter.

I read yesterday that you should update your blog as often as you eat, so I am endeavoring to update my blog more frequently.

Ciao