Chasing things, chasing ideas (zaibatsu), 07/11/2019
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I was never much into chasing things, but I've spend many
years chasing ideas and ideals. As the years get on, I'm
starting to think that even that is misguided. Perhaps this
whole exercise of chasing is contrived, and designed to keep
people looping rather than actually progressing?

Just a thought. Recently, I've been slacking on chasing. My
wife and daughter are gone camping for a few days, and I
miss them more than I thought I would. It's just me and my
sons here, which is fun in its own way, but it's not quite
the same. My feelings are making me think a bit about life.
Perhaps life recently is making me think a bit as well.

Hobbies. I've not been one to chase hobbies much in my life.
I took up fishing a few years back, simply because I lived
next to a lake. That was a ton of fun, and very
rejuvinating. I don't chase the hobby though, then or now
(mostly). I just take it as it comes, and enjoy it.
Electronics is something I took up for a few odd reasons.
For a bit I spent more time on it, right now it's on the
back burner. Vintage computers I chased a tiny bit. I
confess that I chased PDA's far too much in their day. But,
that's it, I've come clean, and I feel like I've done OK in
keeping hobbies at bay.

I hardly know where I'm going with this. All I know is the
house is too quiet, and I felt like getting into gopher
space a bit.

Those ideas and ideals that I spent so many years chasing
are coming into focus more for me right now. I'm realizing
that they're not valuable in and of themselves. They are
just possibilities, options, paths that could be taken. The
paths that I am I, the paths that I have taken, are pretty
good. And I'm quite certain that if I had taken other paths,
I'd be chasing still something else. I think it's in my
nature.

The realization is helpful. I can let go of the things that
I didn't do, the things that I didn't achieve, and be
pleased with what I did. It's not perfect, but life never
is.

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