Reverend Ken's Blog: Tuesday, October 28, Word riff

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Tuesday, October 28, Word riff

Post 1300, Day 301 of 2014
- 1,397 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

I started today's comment a lot of times.

My technique of asking a question, then riffing produced nothing worthwhile (I am the judge).

My fallback of making a statement or recording a thought, then riffing on it also failed me today.

I think my riffing skills are intact - I just think my thoughts are mundane and uninspiring today.

If I were - what? - smarter or wittier or maybe more interesting, I could probably turn those thoughts into something I wouldn't mind publishing.

But I am as smart, witty and interesting as I am - nothing more, and not much to be gained by wishing otherwise. All of these must suffice. They are as developed as nature and nurture have allowed them to be at this point. They will change, either increase or wane, in the future. Or not. Who knows or cares how?

Not me.

While I might improve myself in the future, right now I have only what I have right now to cope with whatever the reality, the elusive gone-as-soon-as-it-appears 'now' that genetics and my personal story have given me. That's all I will ever have, too - not that they won't change over time, but at any given point, I am what I am, and have what I have.

I can continue writing this - it will somehow effect my future in ways I can't predict - or stop and 'work' on myself. But perhaps I'm splitting hairs between doing something that is somehow, for whatever reason, what I want to do (write my Daily Comment), and whose consequence on the future, my future, is unknown, or I can do some 'work' on myself, something I hope to predict and control, with the idea that it will make me better in the future.

My choice is obvious if you've read this far, and, going back to the beginning of the post, it looks like my fallback plan worked out, after all - and my riffing skills are fine.

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