93,000,000 Miles

To travel a mile up in the air, that's a long way, or so it seems. One mile can often be confused with a distance that is too far to walk. Life can seem this way sometimes, "too far to walk." Seventy-five plus years sure does seem like a long time. Perhaps a larger perspective is needed when there is an urge to waste time. It's hard to remember the shortness of a life. Maybe it's better not to think about eternity. After traveling one mile into the sky there is still 92,999,999 more miles to be traveled until you reach the sun! The distance of one mile that at first seemed so long, is essentially nothing. So, what is one life in the face of eternity? How differently life would be if the shortness of it couldn't be forgotten?

"Just Joking"

Just because you say, "Just Joking" doesn't mean you didn't say it. Sometimes people say the meanest things and then say, "just joking" like it's going to make everything all better. Well, it's not. I know, I know, "can't you take a joke?" Well, those who know me well, know I can take a joke, but jokes don't have to be insults. Funny things aren't funny because they're insulting. For example, I was in the restroom not too long ago standing at the urinal. This older gentleman next to me finishes doing what ever he was doing at the urinal and moves directly to the hand dryer and starts drying his hands. Now that was funny!

For Grounding

As if I don't have enough to do, I will now enter the world of the bloggers. I figure this will be a good place to write down thoughts about the world. I generally have many thoughts, but not all are useful. I want to see the world around me change, but I'll always wonder if I am the one for the job. I think often about jobs.... Now that you mention it, what about the future? "Only time will tell?" How can we be so sure? I've heard of "telling time," but "time telling," I'm not convinced. If I had to say, more things than time can tell and I'm not sure time can tell at all. Something is definitely going on here.