Reflections on 2009

As I have thought back on how I lived 2009, I’ve had two major disappointments:

• I wasted far too much time processing information that had little value. It is so easy for a retired person to get sucked into the web, continually taking on the reading of more and more blogs, and it is easy to let this take up a lot more time than it’s worth. I fell for it. My previous two posts have talked a little about how I am working my way out of it, and already I am feeling “more normal” and less controlled by an addiction to information.
• I stopped playing guitar for about 7 or 8 months. Instead of taking care of my talent and building on it, I just set it aside. I regret having done that. Fortunately I did not lose all ability to play, but one does pay a price in terms of performance when not exercising a talent for that long. So now I am sort of forcing myself to play by doing some YouTube recordings.

I feel a little better by sharing these circumstances with you. Confession is good for the soul, as they say, and I hope doing so helps me put some disappointments behind me.

Take care.