Yeah, I Got Nothing

Yesterday I fell off the wagon with regard to writing in this blog daily. Since I did, this is an effort to get back on it. I have tried to keep a diary (in my teens), journal (in my young adult years), and to a lesser extent, blog (as a fully grown "mature" adult) on a consistent basis, but have never quite been able to manage it. As I write this, I have put today's entry off until the last possible moment (it's currently 11:48pm on my computer clock) and so I feel like I'm sort of slapping something together really quick to say that I got it done. I suppose that is, in fact, what I'm doing. Honestly, as busy as I've been the last couple of days, I'm amazed that I thought of this blog at all.



Life is like that though, isn't it? Out of sight, out of mind. When I close this laptop after I'm finished, I hardly ever give this blog another thought. I certainly don't really think about what I'm going to write about for the next day or what I would like to write about. My head just gets filled with other bits of fluff and stuff and I move on through my day. I think the reason that it's so easy to forget is that I've never made it a priority. It's never been an important enough goal for me to really put time and mental energy into making it happen before now. Unfortunately, I think we do that with a lot of things in our lives. Long ago I heard the adage that we make time for the things we want to do. There really is a lot of truth in that. If something is really important to us, we mentally remind ourselves of it or we write ourselves reminders or set alarms to remind us to get it done. We put up pictures of those we love on the mantelpiece or the walls in our homes. We make something a part of our daily routine so that we cannot help but remember it. We make space in our heads and our hearts for the things that matter to us.

In the overall scheme of things, this blog -- as important to me as it has become of late -- is still much lower on my priority list than a lot of other things. If I need to deal with something that is higher priority (like my family, my friends, or my faith), this blog might even drop off the bottom of my priorities list. I'm okay with that though. At least I actually thought about the blog yesterday once I realised that it was past midnight and I had forgotten to post anything. I suppose that's progress.

A domani! (Until tomorrow!)