Detour

I'm slowly learning perseverance.  If I had to pick my worst quality, I'd put that at the top.  I guess that's the word I'd label it anyway.  I don't stick with things.  I try something for a little while and as soon as I get the slightest bit of satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) from it, I'm done.  Bored.  What can I do now?  I'm not a lifetime hobby person. 

I played 5 different instruments as a kid.

Yeah, I counted the recorder, but not the xylophone. 

I played 3 different sports, did 3 different kinds of dance, and was a cheerleader. 

I sang in chorus.  I performed in drama. 

I went hunting.  I rode horses. 

I bought a camera and took some pictures. 

I even got a little obsessed with computers and writing code at one point. 

Oh and let's don't forget swim team.  I didn't include that in my 3 other sports. 

Just don't you dare ask me to do any of it now.  I didn't stick with any of it.  I "mastered" (in my mind) a few of those things at the time, but they didn't tie me down.  They didn't keep me coming back.  I'd get bored or frustrated or bored or distracted or bored (did I say that already?) and was off to the next adventure. 

Some people might call me a quitter, but I don't see it that way.  Maybe I'm also delusional, but I'm just not obsessive, at least not consistently obsessive. I don't think you absolutely have to have one hobby or expertise in life, but I do think you need to learn to persevere, and well, after looking back at that list, it's easy to see it's about time I do.  I think a big part of learning to persevere is learning to detour while staying on track.  Contradiction?  Maybe.  Possibility?  Absolutely.  You'll never reach your destination if you drive straight into the sink hole instead of taking the detour. 

 

Today's detour is taking me away from the funny.  I'm attempting to persevere with this blog, but I'm failing to keep up.  I originally started this with the intention to post every hilarious event that happened in our household, but I'm learning not every week is hilarious.  In fact, since the first few postings, it's been everything but.  So, in order to persevere through this adventure and stay on track, I've got to take a detour. 

 

If you're here only for the laughs, you'll be disappointed.  There will be more, but they won't be exclusive.  We laugh a lot, but we cry some too.  We also get sappy.  Well... I do anyway.  So, although I've never been a persevere-er (one who perseveres sounds too stiff.  get over it), I'm attempting something new again... and that's to ride this thing to the end... and in order to do that, I've got to detour a little.  Feel free to follow the road signs and come with.  (Yep.  That's for the grammar nazis that are still upset about persevere-er.  Take that for a detour.)  Just know that while I'm taking a detour, I intend to stay on track.  It might not all be funny, but it'll all be Ellie, May, and Jesus.  On our walk through life.  One step at a time.  Funny or not.