A Whole Different Kind Of Story

That's it! I have to change a lot about what I write. Right now!

To let you know, my family has tried hard to convince me that I ought not to be writing so much about local politics. That was my "past life." They did not want me to be "depressed" or overworked in writing about these kind of matters in my life today. They knew about lots of other subjects about which  I enjoyed researching and then putting down on paper. Of course, they were very supportive when I asked some time ago whether I should start writing again.  They all provide me assistance in doing so now.

I am sure that you can recall how many articles I have written before about almost everything to do with politics in this area. Before I got so ill, when I was doing my online journal work, I would get up fairly early in the morning and work until quite late at night. I would be writing all kinds of articles almost every day about all kinds of political matters that impacted different parts of our area.

After I got quite ill and did the best I could in recovering, it was my intention to minimize the number of "political" stories I was producing once I started writing again on my own personal Blogsite. I thought I was doing quite well for a time but that changed. Again, I finally feel today that I am writing way too much on matters that frankly I do not consider all that interesting. Oh sure, I am certain that you believe that it has to do with politics. And you are so correct.

Let me explain.

Just go back a couple of days and take a look at my Blog, "WE INTERRUPT THIS BLOGWRITING..." It was all about "Breaking News Alert."  In that article, I wrote the following:

"Yes, I cannot believe what is happening now and what is required to let everyone in this area know what is going on. Let me just give you some examples of what I mean right now"

I then continued on and listed 5 matters that I found so fascinating and about which I wanted to write all kinds of articles in the future:

"What can a person like me do to handle all of them? All of them very important for this City. All at the same time too!"

Pshaw. I was a fool. I have changed my mind now and so quickly too. "Very important..." not a hope. I should have known that all of those matters are easily going to be dealt with. Who knows if they haven't been handled already in an acceptable manner by the participants but the public will not know about the results until the right time arrives.

I could write all kinds of things about why I have changed my viewpoint so quickly but I do not see any good reason in doing so.  It just comes down to the reality that I see today that it probably is an aftereffect.  I am living a different life now and so I am now handling matters in a completely different way.

Just to give you a very silly comment, do you know what fascinates me? It's easy. It is everything that goes on around me right now. I have only really seen many of these matters in the last 3 years of my life because I have the time to do so. 

So many birds chirping, robins all of a sudden appearing as they return home from the south, rabbits going all over the grass. I cannot believe the blue skies that I am seeing now.  Watching how the clouds form and then travel over where I living now fascinates me. I must admit that I don't like watching those bolts of lightning and hearing those booms of thunder. I just took a whole bunch of pictures the other day of trees to let myself remember how leafs just come out as a spring temperature warms up everything around me. As for going for walks, I only do so several times per day when the weather is nice and just look at what is going on around me in the area.

I don't think I have ever done anything like this in so much detail before. How could I when I had to start work early in the morning for my full-time job, return home late in the day, eat dinner, watch a TV program or two in order to relax a bit and then go to bed. Of course, on the weekend, I still had to go back to work for a short period of time because I was doing a lot and needed to try and organize things for the next week. Naturally, I had to spend some time going grocery shopping as well because we did have to eat after all and to do some home related issues as well. Of course, in my last several years working at my former employer, a good part of it was spent by me overseas dealing with a major piece of litigation. In other words, dear reader, I don't think I ever really understood what was going on around me until I started recovering from my illness. And when I did, then I started to learn what the world was really like.

I have to admit that even now what I am going through is so completely new to me compared with how I was experiencing my days previously. I did change my life to something that I think is much better and have to make sure that I do not go back to my "old" way of living. Of course, I have not dealt with whether younger readers, like you dear reader, should change his or her life at their age now. It is not my decision to make. Nevertheless, I just wanted to point out what had happened to me and what has happened with the change that I had to make. Perhaps it is something that you might want to consider as well.  I will leave that up to you!