Quantity over Quality

I was just thinking that I've been doing this blog for over 6 months now which is a new record for me. I do it on the weekdays, cause I usually don't get on the 'net on the weekends. Like all great long tasks that go on over a period time, there are different phases. First is the exciting phase, where everything is new, you are trying all different things, and exploring different avenues. Then you move into the "normal" phase, where everything is really normal and it's just a task...at this point, it becomes work. Sometimes you have something to say, sometimes you don't. I'm in that stage now. I am committed to writing these because I promised myself I would keep a record of my thoughts, but what good is it if I write down about the same topics over and over again. Am I just that lame?

Sometimes I sit down, and I honestly don't have any great big point to make, and I wonder if it's worth it for me to write something stupid. I write it anyway, because if I don't, that leaves the door open a little bit for laziness and soon after I wouldn't even be blogging anymore. Quantity vs. Quality. I could post occassionally with quality pieces, when some really cool thought comes into my mind. Or I can write everyday and for the most part have stupid things to say, or maybe even nothing to say.

Hmm...isn't that how life is? Isn't that how a lot of things are? I remember reading about war, and one of the characters said "war is days of waiting and 10 minutes of intense action happening in an instant". Life is like that too, isn't it? Sandwiched between the long bouts of waiting, doing the daily grind, or just living a normal life, we get intense bursts of activity, good or bad, then we resort back to our normal boring lives. Most of the human population is like this. Movies, TV portray things differently because they have to, otherwise no one is going to be watching their shows/movies anymore. '24' is a great example. Here we have a episode of a hour where more things happen to the central character than what happens in a persons life over a decade. People dying, lives in danger, etc, etc...but even with 24, there are years of peace between the TV seasons...We just don't see it. Suddenly our lives look pale and boring compared to 24, because we only see the highlights and never the long periods of preparation when Jack would be training, running, doing chores around the house, getting his oil changed, cursing the plumber for a big bill, etc, etc...

so TV and movies are a skewed version of reality, but the sad truth is that some people believe that that is how life should be lived, that life without all this crazy stuff going on is not a life that has been lived to the full. How crazy is that?

So all this to say, that I am going to continue with the quantity over quality, because I want to make sure that whoever ends up reading this gets a true idea of what my life is like...mostly mundane, not a whole lot happening with short intense bursts of epiphanies and events.