Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Highways and biways


Life seems to pass by much like scenery on a road trip. At times you are watching it, enjoying the beauty and lost in the transitions. Other times you are lost in your thoughts and parsing through worries only to come back and see that you have driven 20 miles and can't remember what you have passed. There is the quiet panic of lights ran or animals hit until you realize that none of that happened, you definitly would have come too for that. I feel like a couple of weeks have passed by without notice while I have been lost in my head.

It is so difficult to fully engage in every moment of every day but I feel like I let a lot of stuff pass with out enjoying or disliking it fully. I have made a decision to not watch TV this week and try to live a little more fully in the present. Missing Monday night football was tough but not that tough because I didn't really care about any of the teams, I was mathematically eliminated from my pick' em league, and it was the first day of my no TV watching week. The first day is a bit easier then say Wednesday when Lost comes on and everyone I know will be watching it and then discussing it all week. We will see how it goes, what I notice while trying to pay attention to the scenery of life. I'll keep you posted.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Lost is actually a rerun this week, so much for sacrifice.

Anonymous said...

First the football is teams he doesn't like, then Lost is a rerun.....hmmmm.

Hard to believe he didn't plan this week ahead of time.

Just kidding.

Portland Dad said...

Yeah not exactly a huge sacrafice now that I think about it. Well it's the thought that counts right?