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What does it exactly mean to be grounded? You always hear celebrities and rich people talk about how they try to stay in touch with people they knew before they became famous or made their first million so they can remain grounded. Is it possible for us everyday common folk to become ungrounded?
I think so. I think living out here all on my lonesome has been a quite unleveling, worldwindish experience. And it is only through my phone conversations with old friends and family and visits from familiar faces that I believe I remain grounded. Each time, I am given clearer perspective of things.
Having my mother visit me for her spring break was the best push to the ground I’ve had in a while. She’s already been gone for a week and I’m still moving forward with such focus and purpose.
This week I have completed a short story and sent it out to my readers, mailed off all of my screenplays to someone in the movie business, and started a new screenplay. While all of these may not lead to anything, I am at least writing again, creating things. And it feels great!
In the last year or so it seems like I’ve been spinning aimlessly in search of purpose and success. I’ve loved my job and grown to hate in when I realized that I was only doing the same thing I did $60,000+ ago before I went to grad school in search of doing something else. Then finally, it dawned on me. My job is just a job. It’s what I do right now to pay the bills. By career, I am a writer. But I can’t have too much of a career if I don’t keep writing. So I shall continue on …
So, here is something I started writing my birthday weekend (which was months ago) and somehow got lost somewhere on the Internet. But surprisingly it showed up today as being a draft I’d started (when I tried to recover it before I to finish it I couldn’t) and crazy thing is it’s saying I last edited it in 1970 (before I was even born and my folks were even thinking about each other, let alone me). At any rate, enjoy!
