July 16th, 2010
So it seems pretty obvious to me that my blogging is slowing down considerably. It's not a matter of having less to say, or suddenly finding peace with the world, it's more a matter of just not having a whole lot of time. I manage a fairly large team at work, I have a beautiful little girl whom I devote a lot of my non-working time to, and my wife is away at work a lot of hours so I seldom can just sit and think (or type).
Now, having said that, I still get a chance to drop a few thoughts down in other forums, such as a discussion group, work-related blog, or, sometimes, email to friends. But this blog? Well, it's getting short shrift right now.
Those constraints on my blogging time are minor in and of themselves, but also indicative of a greater leash around my neck. The salary-man dad life, that is.
I mean, sometimes we knowingly and willingly accept the restraints on us. We embrace (sometimes enthusiastically) the leash of a mortgage, workaday life, the restraints of friends and family. We never test the strength of the bars that hold us in our jail cells ... and you know, sometimes we are happy with what we've got! But what an irony there is in our pathetic attempts to convince the freer and happier of those amongst us that they "should" live the lives we have.
This is something I got to thinking about the other day in regards to religious conversion of "savages"—you know, the missionaries who venture out into the great unwashed.
Isn't it ironic that so often those people bent on "civilizing" the natives or the great unwashed are themselves the most uncivil beasts that plod the face of the Earth? (I'm not saying I'm in that category ... it just got me thinking about it, that's all!) I mean, converting natives with their idol worship or—worse—atheist views to Christianity ranks right up there with ... I dunno, sexual interference or squeezing the toothpaste from the middle of the tube.
It bothers me that the people most intent on changing others are the ones who are the most miserable.
Or, as Tom Lehrer put it, "He devoted his life to offering advice to those happier than himself."
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