All We Can Do is "Our Best!"

There is an old saying that "the road to Hell is paved with good intentions."

I find that I end up applying it alarmingly often, in my life!

Winter trees, near my house...

One of my intentions for 2025 was to find time to start blogging on Blurt, once again. And here I am, in mid-February, finally getting around to that.

I have come to the unsettling conclusion that modern life is a perpetually growing time sink, much like a black hole in space that slowly eats everything around it. Over time it may look the same, but because everything gets sucked into it, its mass slowly becomes greater and greater as time passes.

We have been sold the illusion that our lives are somehow better, but we somehow have to give up more and more of ourselves in service of both having and maintaining those "better" lives.

If that is the case, are those lives actually better?

Near Joshua Tree, California

When I was a kid, one of the lifelessons passed along by my parents and extended family was that "we should always do our best."

A good and valid lesson, perhaps, but it might be tempered with the caution that sometimes our best may not be enough.

I wonder, enough for what, exactly?

Many people spend their lives in pursuit of bigger, better, faster, shinier.... success.

But what do those thing even mean, especially if you have neither time nor energy left over to actually enjoy them?

A place to relax...

One of the reasons I gave up on the idea of making "New Year's Resolutions" was that doing so was inconsistent with the reality of often not having enough time to turn them into reality, while also recognizing that I can only do my best.

At life.

At anything.

So whereas I intend to find time to start blogging here on Blurt again, I can only do my best... whatever that might be, at any given moment!

Thanks for stopping by, and have a great week!

How about YOU? What does "doing your best" mean to YOU? Do you always do your best? Or does it feel like "too much" in our busy world? DO leave me a comment — engagement matters! Communities are built because people INTERACT with each other through the content that's created! This is SOCIAL media, after all. So share your opinion, be part of the conversation! I do my best to answer all worthy comments!

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