With a little bit of lapsang souchong…

Well, another year gone by and I’ve reached some of my goals, but am still lagging behind on others. I suppose that’s the way of things. I mean, to quote a certain jazzy singer, ahead of his time (Jason Mraz), “Well I bet if you all had it all figured out, then you’d never get out of bed.”

We set goals and strive for them; sometimes we make it and sometimes we fall down. I think we learn more from the falling down. I also think this last year I fell down a lot more than I made it. In retrospect, I think this is a good thing; it means I learned more than I might have.

I like to think I will spend the rest of my life learning. It is one of the reasons I am always challenging myself to learn new, and seemingly random, things like the knitting I’ve recently taken up. Learning new things keeps the brain active.

My biggest fear in life is not death, really; it’s losing my mind. An argument can be made that this is a form of death, but being alive and mindless is far scarier to me than not being alive at all. Maybe all those times I fall down will help me think clearly for a long time to come, and maybe I’ll always have a reason to get out of bed.