Saturday, March 27, 2010

Remember Me?

Well, yes, it has been awhile -- and not really because I have lacked things to say. Rather I have always decided that I would blog later. Write later.

I was standing in line waiting for the Easter Bunny at the Chocolate Cafe with the boys today, thinking about the end of the Twilight Zone episode where Burgess Meredith indicates that he has "all the time in the world" to read all of the books he has always wanted to. I have always had all the time in the world, too. Time to write. Time to become the person I have always wanted to be.

Or have I?

It occurs to me that perhaps I should be a bit more carpe diem and a bit less laissez-faire when it comes to achieving whatever it is I wish to be doing. I realize that most everyone my age has already done that way back in their 20s while it has taken me another decade and a half to realize what I already knew deep down.

Those things -- whatever they may be -- aren't coming to me so I need to go to them. More than that, though, I always thought I was writing to entertain. To enlighten (okay, moreso the entertaining than the enlightening) but not writing only makes me realize how much I have missed it.

So I am back. But not really for you -- although you're free to read and observe if you wish. I'm back for me.

But feel free to come along with me on this journey wherever it may take me. I just can't stand still. I must poem or prose. Something. Anything.

Sometimes I just get tired of chasing my dreams. I think I will find out where they are going and then just meet them there.