Life Gets Away From You

Who knows that happened to this semester? I looked down at my homework and when I looked back up it was gone...what happened? How can something pass you by so quickly? It's incredible the rate at which time seems to pass when you're overall enjoying yourself. It's almost a whole month longer than the summer was and it seems so much shorter. I attribute this to the fact that the people I truly want to be with exist here instead of home.

It's even been a long time since my last post on here. I blame professors who give you homework. I guess it's because they want you to learn something. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Hopefully the stuff I really needed to learn will stick with me next semester. Life now becomes harder that I'm trying to learn a profession. I'm slowly realizing this.

And now to Christmas, now known as the most commercialized time of the year, rather than the most wonderful. What have we become? I love giving gifts, don't get me wrong. But haven't we got our priorities a little mixed up? Shoot, I'm as guilty as anyone. I'll go broke buying Christmas gifts before I'll sponsor a child for a year. Why is that? Well the most obvious reason to me is that I can see immediate results here. Along with that I'm affecting and giving good things to those closest to me, which are the people I tend to want to affect the most. I don't think there is anything wrong with this, but I do wonder if there are less selfish things I should do with my money sometimes that I don't.

But soon even that will be over. Then New Years. Then...Valentines Day I think. Then the next one, and the next one...and the next. And they just keep revolving. I guess, for me at least, it's really easy to get caught up in looking forward to the next celebration. What can I say? I like to have fun. But that doesn't justify forgetting how to live in the now. How to affect those around me now. Just a little thought.

And with that, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas, lest I not make it on here again before the infamous roast beast holiday.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
-Albert Einstein

Until next time....