Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Free Time

Am I just going to waste these hours - well - this hour and a little more?  Am I going to play Words with Friends, or finish the NYTimes Crossword?  Or maybe turn on "The Little Foxes" which I have yet to finish in my otherwise "family-scheduled" evening?  Or, might I get back to the novel I am writing which never really sees as much of my time as it should?  

Any or all of these things are viable options.  But the one I "should" do is, of course, the latter.  And yet instead I decide to write a first blog post on a long dormant blog.  Why?  Well, yes, why?  Because first I took up a pen and paper to write essentially the same thing I'm writing here.  To examine, to explore my reluctance to do what I should but my own primal wish to ease my anxious thoughts with words on a page.  It is writing after all.  The virtual equivalent of essay self-publishing.  And, what is wrong with that?  I, among others, read blogs, sometimes finding valuable info, points of view or plain laughs to brighten my day.  So, yes, a new blog post.  Because at least I am writing and well, if someone googles upon this blog and reads it, perhaps the meanderings of my procrastinating heart will ease the tricky burden of another's wasted minutes.  
--JC