Life is a constantly moving target.  Whether you sit still or try to move with it, the world will change around you.  We grow old, children grow up, people move away, loves wax and wane, and rarely do things go as we think they should.

Maybe it's a blessing; maybe it's a curse, but we get to decide a lot about the change.  It's a blessing that we get the illusion that we are in control and can be proud when things go well.   Of course the flip side is that there is much we have no control over, so when things don't go so well we have plausible excuses.  

• If only I had known... 
• That's wasn't what I intended...  
• It couldn't be helped... 
• It's (someone else's) fault...
• and my Bart Simpson favorite "I didn't do it" 

I think the best thing we can control is our attitude.  It isn't always easy, but since we can't control others or the weather.  The secret to life is learning to love dancing in the rain.


Just for my own review, I looked over the previous entries in this blog.  What struck me was how all the plans mentioned in the first entry have been either changed or deleted.  About the only one still in tact is moving out of the house.  So much for planning the future.  

After a career in IT, I am still amazed at our ability to communicate over great distances with such ease.  When I was in the Navy, you wrote a letter, put it in an envelope, slapped a stamp on it, dropped it in a box, and waited a week or two.  I only have a few friends that are that slow to read their email today.  Most can read it as soon as it is posted.  How wonderful!


I'm excited about the future, whatever that turns out to be.  I'm happy to have one.  I'm thankful for all the wonderful friends I've found in my life so far and anxious to meet more.