Staying With it…

Hi there! Ah, I can see that it’s been awhile since I was last here. Now I know that nobody has missed me, I’m that kind of guy, so hey, ain’t nothing to worry about. Suddenly lost track of thought. Sorry about that, but this does happen from time to time.

Then, suddenly, we’re off again!

So, it’s Wednesday December 9. Here in the Republic, it’s budget day and well, to not put to fine a point on it, it hasn’t been a good year. Let’s not get all doom and gloom about it, I’m pretty sure that things will get better. What we should do, is do our best to remain positive, keep our chins up and smile because, let’s face it; sometimes, it’s all we can do.

Okay, so what I won’t do here is a review type thing, you know, one of those yearly review jobs, I’ll save that for closer to new year, it seems more apt, I think. Which I suppose leaves another question; What is this about?

Well, it’s about a year where a lot has happened, I’m not going to get all personal, this isn’t what this is about. If we take a small step at a time, then I’m pretty sure that it’ll work out just fine. Trials and tribulations I think they’re called and a lot of us have seen a few of those this year, and perhaps from the previous as well. I usually do these with earphones in and I’ve just made  tea. Do I need music blaring in my ears like that? Sometimes, yes, it helps and can, in perhaps an odd way, be soothing and scene setting. A change of mood, maybe.

I am, still doing my drivelling. A number of people are probably groaning now that I am still doing it, but I never said I wouldn’t, although to be fair, it has, thankfully, slowed down now. I feel as if a lot of the enthusiasm for it has worn off, dulled is maybe a better way of putting it. What I will say here is that I continue to be a member of Writewords (three groups, no less!) and I will remain so until May 2010. Then, I’ll review and see if it’s still worth staying with and I may yet renew, there’s a lttle way to go yet. I may review the groups that I belong to, I could pull out of one of them at anytime and there is a temptation to do that.

As far as this drivelling goes, what I’m looking at doing for the new year is having them properly read and with that professional appraisal, see if they really are worth contnuing with. I’ve never believed that this ‘writing’ thing is a waste of time, I think it’s the opposite, I think it’s fun, well, okay, for me it is, not just in what I drivel, but also in reading what other people have written, to share in that and it simply doesn’t matter what they’ve written, if they can be open enough to want to share then that’s just fine. I know how protective we can be with a few things and yes, there are a few characters that I am very protective of, but in order to know if I can go on with them, I need to feel confident enough to let someone else have a look at them. The thing is, if they rip these stories to pieces, am I likely to either burst into tears or hit them? I hopeful that all I’ll do is sit there and ask for some tissues. There is a fear built into this, but it’s something I have to do. But that’s for the new year and not this.

In the here and now, I’m sitting at my laptop and gently tapping all these words out and I can draw this to a close that’s quite proper and genuinely happy. My last post, ‘Being in debt’, was, I think one of my best and this isn’t anything like that. This perhaps, hasn’t been as clear cut as the others but, the important thing here is that I am writing (Now there’s a surprise, me using the word writing!)  and quite enjoying what I’m doing as well. It can feel like a chore and get all nagging in the way it’ll either move as intended or drag itself along and be nothing more than a pain. This isn’t like that. No, what this should be is fun and whole heartedly enjoy what this does, it prompts the brain into getting it all up and running, get something going in the brain department, mine spends a lot of its time sleeping and only so often decides to join the rest of my physical being. Ah, well, these things happen.

So, wrapping all this up, in the time honoured fashion, take it easy out there and please, mind the gap.

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