So I guess i am now a professional blogger. I never thought much about other blogs--you know, listing ideas and thoughts--one may think, "Who gives a shit!" But after writing and posting for sometime in what began for my parents and brother has made me change my mind. If I want to write, what does it matter if people care or not--hell maybe someone will actually change their mind because of something I say or spark a random thought from something I describe.
That being said, I had a weird train of thought the other day while I was getting ready in the morning. As I stared down at my watch, I began to think how long the damn thing has lasted! It is a simple Timex Ironman watch with a nylon/polyester velcro strap. I remember finding the watch in the Atlantic Ocean when I was I think a freshman in high school. We were at Cocoa Beach for our baseball trip during a break and I stumbled upon the working watch as it shined in the blue water. I did not use it a whole lot then since I never wore a watch until about my senior year. At one point in college the battery died. I replaced the battery just a couple years ago when I began working at Fossil since I had an unlimited supply of batteries to choose from. Anyway, as I looked at the watch, I began to effortlessly think about how its life could be compared to mine or anyone else's. Who knows what journey this watch had been on to get to where it is at this point, sweaty dangling from my wrist. No matter where this thing had started its life (back in some factory) to its first store and owner purchase, to the point where it became first abandoned or maybe several times, to where it ended with me, to how it went several years with no use, to finally now using it every second I can. It is actually an easy metaphor for someone's life. One begins somewhere in this world and slowly is exposed to more things as time progresses. One may find a period of steady comfort in one area or section of life, and then go into hiding for several years waiting for the next move or break. Something may happen (me becoming a coach, needing the watch more) to bring this life from its hiding and out into the open where it is experiencing something each day. No matter where the watch ends up or travels or no matter where life guides one another, we both keep ticking, keep moving forward. Our batteries may sometimes lose the energy, but all we ever need is a re-charge or an extra boost, some event, some sort of success to pick us back up to a full cell. My watch was in hiding for a while and is now thriving each day as it is needed for camps and practices--one's life has its ups and downs, its steady use and its feeling of uselessness, and it is up to us to sometimes wait and go with what is thrown at us, and or choose to do something to discover a new energy for our cell tanks. Eventually, after years and years of wear and tear, this watch will no longer be useful unless it is completely restored, and as for the human body, that is somewhat still out of reach (living forever is still just a fantasy in case you didn't know)--so in the long run, we will all one way or another, become old and tired, worn down physically, but until that last part of our working system is broken, we can change out as many batteries as we need in life. Some are as easy picking a free battery from the store you may have once worked, and others are as hard a searching several Radio Shacks to find one very rare fuel cell at an expensive cost. Whatever your battery needs be at the moment in life, just remember that it is always available in some form or another, you just have to search the right stores. Right now, Sweden has become my battery for this portion of my life, and I hope the next few that I need are just as rewarding! It is a pretty common trend that all of us hit some form of mid-life crisis- or a period where we are at our lowest energy, and need a new battery, a new motive to follow something else. I do not know what that feels like and have not reached that "limbo-like" period of life, but I do feel that when I get there, I will find a new reason to keep ticking. I have found that trying anything different at all will some how lift myself from the steady comforts of a monotonous life. Even if it means joining some random group, signing up for a class, changing the time you wake up in the morning, the bar you frequent etc... one way or another I feel something will occur to move oneself to a new part of life, a new adventure. As long as one plays his or her cards correctly (treating others well, sticking to goals), I feel things will come about to set oneself in the direction that best suits his or her lifestyle at the moment.
Think whatever you'd like regarding this random philosophical post. You sometimes never know what will creep into your head while you are making a bowl of cereal in the morning. This watch has definitely outlived its price---you should too.
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