Tuesday, May 26, 2009
A little hope for all you slugs out there
I was walking home from work for lunch and I was totally bumming about life. I didn't feel like I was getting very far in any part of my life - life was just creeping along at a slugs pace. And that's how I felt - like a slug - depressed, lazy, tired, bored, somewhat purposeless, and if for any reason God decided to rain salt down on me, I'd be quite content with shriveling up and taking the rest of the week off.
Then a small breeze blew by and the smell of warm concrete reminded me of longboarding. "Oh, OH, how I can't wait to save enough money to buy a longboard. If only I had a longboard to skate away my troubles this afternoon," I dreamed. Then suddenly I noticed my attitude - I immediately animorphed from my slug-state back to human form; I regained hope and purpose in life. You ask what purpose I find in longboarding but that's not the point. The point is this:
Life doesn't seem too drab if you have something to look forward to - if there's something you're excited about coming up soon. You'll drudge through the muddy thick of suckiness to reach your final destination. You'll live another day just to wait for your excitement to blossom.
I thought to myself, "Hmm, with this new revelation, how can I have more alive days and less slug-wanna-kill-myself-not-reallly-but-almost days?" Ok, maybe that wasn't my exact thought stream but you get the gist of it. Maybe if I had more to be excited about, I would live a happier life - seems logical I guess. And then I thought about my wife Kate - what if she doesn't have a lot to be excited about when she comes home from work? Now I could change that!
What things can I look forward to? What things could I do to help someone else look forward to life after slugdom? More spontanaity? Accomplishing set goals? Geocaching? I leave it up to you.
