I spend a lot of time following my own random brain around!
What I mean by that is that I tend to be so scattered that I sometimes lose track of stuff I started three minutes ago, and because I have historically always had a lousy memory — going back all the way to childhood — my computer documents and my personal space alike are covered with notes and reminders to myself.
A short while ago, I was going to open one of my files — that I typed a very rough draft for a post into, a while back — but because my cat decided to get up on my keyboard he managed to step on the "End" key and advanced the document to the last page.
I looked at Shadow — the cat — and declared "See? This is what I have to deal with all the time!"
In this case, what I "had to deal with" was the fact that my document of creative ideas suddenly contained a recipe for traditional Danish pickled beets, down at the end.
I must have put it there during the late summer when we were harvesting beets from the garden...
I have to admit that it sometimes slows me down that whenever I go looking for something I have determined — at least in that moment — to be really important, it is seldom about just going and laying my hands on it, but a lot more like embarking on a serious archaeological dig through my brainspace.
On many occasions, I don't actually find what I'm looking for but I turn up a whole bunch of other things that I had forgotten all about!
Sometimes I have been described as a bit of an absent minded professor which is perhaps true to some degree — except for the professor part — but I never had the scholastic interest to go so far as to become a professor at anything. Unless you can get a PhD in Staring Out The Window.
Anyway, the unfortunate outcome was that I was not able to find the piece of writing I was looking for, and I suspect it may be a case of my memory failing me again and I actually typed it in on my laptop, or it's simply not in the main document I use for note taking, but in one of the 47 supplemental documents that I may have started at some point just to jot down a spur-of-the-moment idea.
Sometimes I think it's a small miracle that I've actually managed to keep a blog here on Hive for almost 8 years!
But blogging somehow works for me, perhaps because each post and comment represents a short little task with a beginning, a middle and an end (current missing document excepted!), and I'm not locked into always doing or writing about the same thing time after time.
As a content consumer, I'm much the same... finding it interesting to read about photographing cats one moment, how to prune apple trees the next moment, then the latest progress in building spaceships to Mars after that.
Everything seems interesting, in some ways. Even things and viewpoints I don't actually like are interesting in their own peculiar way.
And maybe that's exactly as it is supposed to be!
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