Jul 06 2008
Retired Life - Blogging and Jogging
Blogging and Jogging seem to be occupying a certain fair amount of my time these days. Mostly Blogging. If I spent as much time Jogging as I do Blogging I would be one Fit fellow.I want to thank the management at Today.com for Featuring this blog on the front page of Today.com. It was an honor, and certainly increased the number of visitors to this site. (About triple!) I’m not aware of the criteria to be so chosen, whether it’s quality, quantity or random luck of the draw, but I would gladly agree to be the Featured Blog anytime. Ha Ha.
Blogging has become my primary writing activity, and this is probably not good for my long-term publishing prospects. When I retired, two of my writing goals were to complete my Memoirs and write a fiction novel. Blogging was barely a word in my vocabulary. But-WOW-is this addicting or what? It may be more addictive than simply surfing the net, which was something that used to eat up my free time. (Free time when I also could have been Jogging. The Memoirs remain unfinished (ok…barely begun), and the novel is 54,000 words now, and in need of editing-perhaps a complete re-write. I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I kind of lost the fire in my belly. Something about being satisfied to sit here and publish a blog to the web. That’s shameful, I admit. Perhaps admitting it will get me off my duff again.
Sometimes Blogging is a pleasure and at other times it begins to feel like a job. As a pleasure it lets me express myself, get stuff off my chest, feel like I am connecting to other people-like you. As a Job, it doesn’t pay much, and about the only fringe benefit is being able to choose my own working hours.
So…on to the Jogging. Yes, I am slowly getting back into the run. This is so much harder than sitting in front of the computer, writing. And, like being satisfied with blogging instead of publishing a novel, I quickly become satisfied with just being able to say I jogged, without ever really pushing myself to new limits.
I guess this is what I am really saying: Being satisfied with what I have accomplished may be what is really holding me back from accomplishing more. You know, really going for it all, achieving my full potential, whether on the track jogging or at the computer writing. My juices need a jump start. My wife would say I need a swift kick in the keester.
