We really have a love-hate relationship, this blog and me. Sometimes I want to spend all my free time with her and sometimes I just want to put a pillow over her face while she's sleeping and smother her.
Lately I haven't really felt like taking time to "share" things with whomever reads these entries. I've had a couple complaints that it's not as "fresh" as it used to be, whatever the hell that means. I guess there haven't been too many interesting things happening to me lately ~ just kind of settling in to the summer with the family, working a little harder than usual, focusing my energies elsewhere.
Having done this for about 18 months now, perhaps I've become more selective in my posts; trying to convey only the upper echelon of things that pique my interest. I always like to talk about politics, religion and other things about which I know I'm 100% correct and you are 100% wrong. It is a burden being right all the time.
I think that recently I've come to terms with the way the world is and how much that differs from the way I believe it ought to be. I hate to be so negative, but I'm pretty sure that society is on a collision course with Idiocracy and no matter how much I believe what I believe, I can't stop it from happening. We're getting stupid people.
I've argued about politics. I've argued about the evils of abortion. I've argued about religion. I'm hard headed about these issues but realize that even my superior debating skills most likely won't change the spoon-fed minds of those people on the wrong side of morality.
I hope you're taking some of the things I'm saying with a grain of salt. I'm narcissistic, but also realistic.
Our society is on information overload. 24 hour news/gossip. Cell phones. Twitter. Facebook. Why do we give a shit about what everyone is doing all the time? I do all that stuff on one hand and on the other would rather not even have a cell phone. Why do you care so much about how I think or what I'm doing at 10:26 at night or where I'm going on vacation? Why do I think you want to know these things? I don't know. We've immersed ourselves in to this technology at the expense of our privacy. Why? I don't have the answer. I just follow the crowd like you do.
I've never been a very "social" person; in fact, many that know me well would say I'm the opposite. I really don't like people knowing that much about me, yet I have practically my entire life online. Is my life really that interesting? I think it is. Maybe I'm just documenting this for my kids. I also like to write and make people laugh. I find humor in unusual situations and I have an irreverent sense of humor. I guess I think that some people like that because they may not come in contact with people who consistently say what's on their minds. I hate passive/aggressiveness and beating around the bush.
I'm not really certain why I felt compelled to post this crap today. Catharsis? Probably. I don't think I'll ever be able to
not blog, but some weeks are more interesting/humorous/tragic/annoying/dramatic than others. I'm just trying to "keep it real," yo.
Oh and on a final note. I went to the
Concert in the Garden last night and saw the
Music of Led Zeppelin. It was awesome. I had seen it before at the Myerson in Dallas with the Dallas Symphony and it was less sweltering and mosquito-y, but there were no fireworks during
Stairway to Heaven.
