Time Flies
It’s been a week exactly since my last post – and it doesn’t feel like it! Time is funny stuff, as Hap says in Always.
Hubby was away for a week – not just a work week but 7 days in a row, including weekend time. He did a bit of business in TX and then drove with his dad from TX to Reno, NV. So “real” time was suspended while he was away… and because it was such a long time, it feels difficult to get back into “real” time. I feel like sleeping in every morning – but there is a boy to get off to school, groceries to buy, dogs to walk, laundry to do, tai chi to practice and work to get paid for. But I would be just as happy to dream about it as to do it.
I have also been lost in Lost. I have about 2/3 of the first season complete. I like the character focused writing – although there is action, you get to see the story behind the behavior. It’s one of the things I like about soap operas too – you get to see the whole person, not just the front they put on for the people that pass in and out of their lives. Everyone has more inside them than what is shown on the inside.
I remember as a kid wondering what it would be like to be this person or that person – what they did when they were my age and how different or similar it might have been. Empathic, I guess you could call it. As an adult, sometimes (most times) I forget to think about how another person might be perceiving a situation, based on their past experiences. But when I do, I find myself more open, more forgiving, more patient.