An apple a day keeps the doctor
away. True? I don’t know.
But just suppose it is true, and it’s five minutes to midnight and you
haven’t eaten yours yet; munch away!
Perhaps it’s just a cliché.
Life is full of clichés and ‘sayings’
and definitions and sales slogans that call out for our attention. I’m not in marketing as a career and that is
probably a good thing; I would go hungry, for sure. Imagine if I was a marketing director for
some major vacuum cleaner company and I was tasked with coming up with next
year’s big slogan for their new line of upright models and all I could come up
with is “Dysell; we’ve seen the future of our new vacuum cleaner; and it
sucks.” I guess I will stick to aviation
maintenance, and all that it entails, because that is my life.
How about life? Here’s my definition of life; keeping death
at a comfortable distance. Now, as much
as I may commit to that, at some point I know I will fail in my commitment. Why?
Simple; because that’s life! We
are not here ad infinitum; and neither is your vacuum cleaner.
Commitment; I made a commitment to
post two blogs a month in my quest to become a good writer. After all, one has to engage in the activity
of ‘doing’ in order to become good at it; whether that activity is writing,
learning the piano, loving your partner, or whatever. So this, my second blog for the month of
November, and second blog this afternoon, is me achieving my commitment. It is not a monumental blog by any means; but
a commitment is a commitment.
It may not be five minutes to midnight
yet; I still have a little less than one hour before November closes out. I have eaten my apple already, and I feel
good knowing that my second blog is published before the midnight hour;
monumental or not! That was, and is, my commitment.
So, to close out this blog, here’s
another good definition for you --- Commitment; doing the thing you said you
would do, long after the mood that you said it in has left you.
Commitment may be just another cliché
to some; but to this writer, at this moment in time, it feels like much more
than that.
Two blogs a month is my commitment;
this travellin’ man is still staying on course.
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