People are surprisingly good at hiding. We hide because we have an image to maintain. We hided because we don't want to spend years trying to take back our identity from identity thieves. We hide because we fear things like the truth or being confronted with the truth.
Sometimes hiding is necessary. Sometimes you need to hole up and come out renewed again.
Many times hiding is just delaying the inevitable: the inevitable reveal, the day or event that you fear.
The one of the tricks as always is knowing when to hide and when not to. A larger trick is knowing that all the hiding in the world will not make the world go away so you have to deal with whatever stuff is left behind.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Motivation
Motivation is a funny thing. It's amazing that a person can be motivated to travel great distances to do the thing that's fun, but not the thing that they ought to do.
This is because the things that we ought to do routinely and diligently are usually NOT FUN.
Picking up your clothes, paying bills, cleaning the kitchen, putting together a shopping list - NOT FUN.
Watching movies you haven't seen in a while, doing tons of shots the night before you have to show up for another mindnumbing day of work, recreational sex - FUN
Unfortunately, when we are motivated to do the FUN things instead of the NOT FUN things and not do the NOT FUN things at all, bad things usually happen.
Being a responsible adult means you dig down and find the motivation to do the NOT FUN things because they need to be DONE.
This is because the things that we ought to do routinely and diligently are usually NOT FUN.
Picking up your clothes, paying bills, cleaning the kitchen, putting together a shopping list - NOT FUN.
Watching movies you haven't seen in a while, doing tons of shots the night before you have to show up for another mindnumbing day of work, recreational sex - FUN
Unfortunately, when we are motivated to do the FUN things instead of the NOT FUN things and not do the NOT FUN things at all, bad things usually happen.
Being a responsible adult means you dig down and find the motivation to do the NOT FUN things because they need to be DONE.
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Sunday morning coming down
Sunday-the day after. This when you sleep in-but not too much. You re-adjust and re-evaluate. You are picking up after the previous evening's bachannale, which often serves as a reminder to never overindulge in your own liquor.
The first Sunday after New Year's is especially sobering because the haze of the holiday season wears off. All that Ebenezer Scrooge TMOC (True Meaning Of Christmas)/The Whos' Roast Goose/Tiny Tim's Razzleberry dressing stuff goes to the wayside. I personally feel that if you haven't been practicing the TMOC all year round, it's a bit inefficient to wait until one season out of the year to practice it when you can build upon it throughout the year.
So if you are into sports-this is an important time. College Football is winding up with the BCS Championship Bowl, the culmination of a season. Pro Football is finishing the regular season and everyone is thinking about the Superbowl.
Everyone else is working on keeping resolutions and beginning again.
As for me, the last three months of 2010 were not filled with warm and happy thoughts. New Year's was even a reserved affair. I knew that when I woke up Sunday morning, that all the things that were left in the old year was facing me in the new year. I wouldn't be beginning again, but taking up what was already there.
The first Sunday after New Year's is especially sobering because the haze of the holiday season wears off. All that Ebenezer Scrooge TMOC (True Meaning Of Christmas)/The Whos' Roast Goose/Tiny Tim's Razzleberry dressing stuff goes to the wayside. I personally feel that if you haven't been practicing the TMOC all year round, it's a bit inefficient to wait until one season out of the year to practice it when you can build upon it throughout the year.
So if you are into sports-this is an important time. College Football is winding up with the BCS Championship Bowl, the culmination of a season. Pro Football is finishing the regular season and everyone is thinking about the Superbowl.
Everyone else is working on keeping resolutions and beginning again.
As for me, the last three months of 2010 were not filled with warm and happy thoughts. New Year's was even a reserved affair. I knew that when I woke up Sunday morning, that all the things that were left in the old year was facing me in the new year. I wouldn't be beginning again, but taking up what was already there.
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