It's All About Attitude

If you've been looking for patterns, it's been 1 day - 2 days - 3 days between blog posts. Will I keep this up?Who knows? I sure as heck don't.

Well, after a failed search to find a cover of "Lucky" to trump the original, I have come to find I enjoy Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat's version the best. Something about their voices just melds together. I have found myself so engulfed by music lately. Maybe it's the ever-open Pandora tab on every piece of technology I touch. It's almost always some sort of "Super Chill" music. I no longer really enjoy any other music anymore. My old iPod playlist is gathering virtual dust while my Jack Johnson, John Mayer, and Bob Marley tracks get a daily workout. I'm somewhat obsessed with the power of music. I love (and hate) the way music can speak so easily to our emotions. In some ways, I attribute the words of the song to the situation I'm in. It's kind of like how people will act as if rainy weather reflects their sadness. It's subjective really. Or objective. Defective? I think my memory is.

So why am I always listening to slow going relaxed music? Well I think it has a lot to do with how it shapes my attitude at the time. My personality is most inclined to take things slow. Sometimes, with work or school things, I get bouts of anxiety where I'm super organized and OCD and get a lot of work done. While that's great and all for productivity, I find it takes a toll on my mental health. Once I'm in that state, I move much faster than I would like. I start speed-walking like the old people I see everyday. And not for any particular reason, I'm not necessarily going to be late anywhere. I just try to shorten the time I spend traveling to maximize time spent doing things. Rather obsessive.

Most of the time, I really don't need to be in a rush. I find that when I slow things down, I still accomplish things, just with less anxiety. Sometimes it's not organized. Sometimes it is. Sometimes my mind drifts off. Like now. For some reason I'm thinking about orangutans. Now Tang. Now karate. Crap.

Anyway, I suppose the point I'm trying to make here is that it's important to take things slow. If you rush yourself, you often create unneeded anxiety and craziness. Smell some flowers. Go for a walk. Turn on a radio and just lay there. And when you do any of this stuff, don't be thinking about what you should be doing or what you still have to do that day. Just enjoy the moment. The present was created for a reason, for us to enjoy it. Worrying about the future or the past won't help you enjoy the present. It's like a present. Ha see what I did there? I'm sure that joke has never been told.

Here's another joke:

So an anti-climatic polar bear walks down the street. He reached the end of it.