Life’s a beach and then you slide… line dance style.

So, as many of you may know but refuse to admit, you miss the ever loving socks out of my Facebook presence. My witty posts cleverly sidestepping any content of real value. My sarcastic comments on your well thought out posts about the outfit you chose for the day. My slightly amusing yet mostly offensive way of calling out travesties that I found in life to crazy not to call out.

I could go on and on and on… but in all reality you’ve likely forgotten that I left or even noticed the lack of Humphrey man content on the book of faces. Don‘t feel bad, it’s human nature. There are a MILLION other things fighting vigorously (yep, I chose that word) for your limited attention. You may have read my goodbye FB post, or even clicked my BLOG link thinking you’d check in. But within a few days it faded to the background and was filed away just as most “peripheral“ life content is.

The truth of it is, we can only focus on 1 maybe 2 areas/categories in our life. The others become unfocused blurs in our peripheral brain vision. Yes we know it’s there, and if it makes a sudden noticeable movement we may look in its direction. But for the most part it’s filed away and we move on.

This, sadly, is the way of things nowadays. I’d venture to say it has a lot to do with communication being transformed into an effortless task. Therefore when effort is required we tend to let it slip on by. There are so many much more interesting and shiny things to hold our gaze.

I recall, as a child, driving great distances to visit family. It was quite the ordeal. Our mom would pack us into whatever vehicle she had, likely without AC and dinged up a bit, and off we’d go. Taking great effort to ensure that relationships were strong with our family. That cousins and aunts and grandparents all knew their value in our life.

I can only speak for myself, but I in no way have kept this tradition. I often times long for it but I could not even tell you where all of my family even lives now. Where my cousins are. Hell I haven’t spoken to one of my sisters in like 5 years. Or more.

It saddens me. But life has been so overwhelmingly distracting and INTENSE that I rarely feel energetic enough to pursue a course correction that would fix any of it.

Well shit Dallas, this has been one hell of a downer.

I am just being real. And for the sole purpose of imploring you, the 3 readers of this, to strive for change in this area. I shall also make efforts to change this in my life.

REMEMBER (legit imagine me grabbing your face and yelling this passionately at you), REMEMBER that change only happens if we make different choices. It doesn’t have to be all at once, as failure will surely be imminent in this case. It must be bite size small changes. Like filling a jar with marbles, one marble at a time.

Name each marble. And then once the jar is full you will look upon your hard work and be happy and proud.

So what’s today’s marble?

Today I shall discuss a family trip to AZ with my wife and kids. *KLINK*

And so it begins. :)