Why I don't update often
17/January/2008 Filed in: Personal
I've been looking at my Blog for
some time now and wondering why I don't get it updated all that
often. I can answer myself and say that I'm to busy...
But that does not explain why I come
home from work, head straight for the computer, and rarely do
anything more substantive than delete the spam that has collected
in my filter. I could go on to say that I need a certain amount of
"down time" to recover from my various stresses. And while I don't
think that I could find to many people who would argue about this
in theory I do think that I tend to overdo it.
So why does this happen?
Is it because I'm inherently lazy? I don't care? I'm ill and really need counseling?
I think that only my brother would say yes to all these things (and only because he loves giving me a hard time) and my mother-in-law (but then, she's only doing it to manipulate me into doing what "she" wants me to do).
I'll pretend I'm unbiased about the entire thing and throw out my opinion. Like most things in our lives we want to identify the "one" thing that we need to fix a problem and just do it. Big things are easily identified, targeted, and solved, at least typically. Small things don't create a problem on their own but have to accumulate. This means that when they finally add up to create the equivalent of a Big Thing and we have to go in and fix it we are left standing there scratching our heads wondering what the problem is. After all, we would not be so affected by this thing if it was just a small thing would we?
Placing this down in plain text makes it appear to be so obvious. But how often do we forget this? How often do I forget this? Pretty often I guess. I work in a field that allows me to and forces me to assist anyone who asks to troubleshoot various computer problems. This means that I am frequently very frustrated as most people want to have "one" thing to blame. They want to find it quickly so that it can be fixed and get them back on their way.
It is usually not a simple thing. I feel for them as I would rather have it be a simple thing too. But its not...
I wonder how many people lack the patience to attack the small problems that build up to a large effect and so just end up in a time eating daze bumping into walls like a zombie?
I should probably get more sleep.
So why does this happen?
Is it because I'm inherently lazy? I don't care? I'm ill and really need counseling?
I think that only my brother would say yes to all these things (and only because he loves giving me a hard time) and my mother-in-law (but then, she's only doing it to manipulate me into doing what "she" wants me to do).
I'll pretend I'm unbiased about the entire thing and throw out my opinion. Like most things in our lives we want to identify the "one" thing that we need to fix a problem and just do it. Big things are easily identified, targeted, and solved, at least typically. Small things don't create a problem on their own but have to accumulate. This means that when they finally add up to create the equivalent of a Big Thing and we have to go in and fix it we are left standing there scratching our heads wondering what the problem is. After all, we would not be so affected by this thing if it was just a small thing would we?
Placing this down in plain text makes it appear to be so obvious. But how often do we forget this? How often do I forget this? Pretty often I guess. I work in a field that allows me to and forces me to assist anyone who asks to troubleshoot various computer problems. This means that I am frequently very frustrated as most people want to have "one" thing to blame. They want to find it quickly so that it can be fixed and get them back on their way.
It is usually not a simple thing. I feel for them as I would rather have it be a simple thing too. But its not...
I wonder how many people lack the patience to attack the small problems that build up to a large effect and so just end up in a time eating daze bumping into walls like a zombie?
I should probably get more sleep.