Eek! Yesterday I fell off the fun wagon. I can’t even blame my fall on work. I had read about a lecture I wanted to go to — given by one of the Bielski brothers. If you missed the movie made about their efforts to save Jews during WWII — check out Defiance. It’s a really gripping story, sadly true — but truly inspirational about the power of defiance.
Anyway, I’d planned to go but needed a push to get out the door. I invited a couple of people but neither wanted to go. I could feel my energy waning with each no. I still thought about going — I’m used to doing things on my own, but when I realized the cost was $18, I immediately jumped on that cost as an excuse to not go.
I say excuse because, really, that’s what it was. I had the money — even though I’m trying to be cost-conscious, I could have sprung for the lecture if I’d wanted to. But I convinced myself that I shouldn’t spend $18 and so let myself off the hook for keeping to my new year resolution of having fun.
Now, I’m not saying a lecture about the subject matter of the Holocaust was “fun” per se. But the idea of getting out an hearing a lecture that wasn’t work-related would definitely have felt like fun and the whole idea of my New Year resolution was for me to quit my last-several-years lifestyle/reputation of being a stick-in-the-mud who always works and won’t spend any money on fun. Yuck. That behavior is so 2009.
So, I fell off the wagon on Thursday, January 7 — time to get back in the saddle again (okay, I’m mixing my metaphors but at least they all have to do with horses …).
Steve
January 10, 2010 at 2:13 pmAs I told you so many times MC “Carpe Diem”. That also means if it costs $$ and is worthwhile then $$ does NOT matter.If you live with that philosophy then no problems………………………………………………BTW I just read a tremendous book Zeitoun by Dave Eggers.What a masterpiece.Okay maybe not fun but a must read.!!!!
Steve
January 10, 2010 at 2:44 pmPS .I recommend Defiance to all your readers..What a story!To see Daniel Craig … make one forget he was James Bond is unreal.It is a truly overlooked film!
Scott D
January 10, 2010 at 3:53 pmI’m quoting a Ymca trainer who undoubtedly
is quoting someone else
but it seems fitting for ur apparent early mid-life crisis/change who I am type behavior
life is not how many breaths u take but how many moments that take ur breath away
I agree with you
get outside ur doors and live it up !!!
Well maybe wait until the weather is a bit warmer
then GO FOR IT !!!
John W. Perkins
January 10, 2010 at 4:13 pmM.C. wrote: “time to get back in the saddle again (okay, I’m mixing my metaphors but at least they all have to do with horses …).”
Giddyup, Girl…
Steve
January 10, 2010 at 4:36 pmGo watch Mr.Ed reruns Johnny P.
MC
January 10, 2010 at 4:37 pmReading your verbal sparring is actually fun!
Steve
January 10, 2010 at 4:47 pmJohn is my Joe Frazier MC.Keep smiling!
John W. Perkins
January 11, 2010 at 7:47 amM.C. wrote, “Reading your verbal sparring is actually fun!”
Don’t encourage the lad, M.C.
Steve
January 11, 2010 at 8:14 amToo late Johnny P.
Howard G
January 11, 2010 at 1:13 pmHi Mary Catherine,
Too bad you did not go out to hear the lecture. By the way I am sure that it cost $18 because that is a special number in Judaism. The hebrew word for life is Chai. If if add up the numbers that correspond to the two hebrew letters that compose Chai,10 and 8,you get 18.
By the way, this is one event that you could have most likely got my Mom to accompany you to.
-Howard
MC
January 11, 2010 at 1:51 pmOh, interesting about the number 18. thanks for the explanation. i’m kicking myself since last thursday for not going!