Soup de Jour

I created this blog about a month ago. For one month, I kept writing and deleting and telling myself...how would I handle being criticized? Would anyone read it? Are my ideas, thoughts profound? Or is it me engaging in my own self-importance...that should not even exist.

Then I realized something important. The importance of the moment. The decision. The choice. I was walking down the corridors of Grand Central terminal six months ago, and I had a choice to turn left and catch the 7 train to wherever I was going...or catch the same train by turning right...and walking down those stairs. I picked right. How important was that decision/moment?

Well, I saw a person that reminded me of an old friend that I had not spoken to in a while. As soon as I got off my stop...I called her. Had a long discussion that reminded me that I should call another person I had not spoken to in a long time. Called him...ended up talking about me being laid off. Two weeks later he gets me an interview with a firm in San Francisco. Apparently, I had just caught them before they were going to hire someone else...but they liked me enough...that I am in SF right now...blogging at home.

Did all that happen because I turned right? Maybe/ maybe not...I maybe would have remembered to make that call...and I would still be here. Or maybe I would still be in NYC looking for a job, figuring out how to pay my bills and thinking about packing up and traveling the world on my measly savings.

Sometimes...decisions are not important. But, honestly...almost all the time...they are. As people, we cannot sit and worry and ponder about whether we are making the right decision all the time...but we have to be aware that decisions are always being made and they each have the ability to end up becoming the most important decision you've ever made...even though you did not think so at the time.

Like my decision to sit and write this first blog...what does it mean?...

Let's see in about 10 years - a day that I have been waiting for the past 30 years of my life (but that is another story...).

Bye for now...

and oh...thanks for reading.

This is Inertia...from the west coast signing off...

expect Fistokid from the East Coast will respond...

We will be going forth with ideas, topics, perspectives on whatever WE think is relevant...

as always...

lets see where this journey goes.