{"id":2150,"date":"2007-05-02T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-02T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2007-05-02T07:43:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-02T13:43:00","slug":"absent-and-introspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/absent-and-introspective\/","title":{"rendered":"Absent and introspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been posting a lot of late. And my actual posts of any level of substance have dropped down to almost non-existance.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, sure there is the occasional meme, link, or youtube video. But posting about me&#8230; Not a whole lot to go on.<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ve been turning a bit inward.<\/p>\n<p>I find that as much work as I&#8217;ve done on myself in the past 10 years to no longer be the awkward 30 year old who felt like a social pariah has been getting misdirected.<\/p>\n<p>Most of my time had evolved into working on getting to do what I liked doing rather than simply doing it.  The work had turned into the journey, not the work itself.<\/p>\n<p>Obviously a lot of that changed about 8 months ago. 8 months ago a process began that changed the world from planning for the now, to living in the now. <\/p>\n<p><!--more LJ Cut a moment of Pure TMI for irony-->And as I type the last sentence I discover the the bog roll next to the meditative chamber I sit in has been exhausted and there isn&#8217;t a spare. I am left wanderng the house precariously to remedy this situation.<\/p>\n<p>The truth that I discover is that all the little things that don&#8217;t seem important, eventually do add up. Somehow I need to make more time for that which I seem to have less time. But this is primarily because I feel I&#8217;ve never actually budgeted time for the small things at all and thus a monster of the small things combined as come forth. This monster has made it clear that if I don&#8217;t take it down and conquer it, it will take the time away from me from the things that are important to me.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve let go of a lot of things over the past 6 months. Some I wish I hadn&#8217;t&#8230; Some I shouldn&#8217;t have taken to begin with. Some I hope to bring back into my life sooner than later. But all of these things are nothing compared to the things that I&#8217;ve avoided controlling in my life. <\/p>\n<p>I consider myself a magickal being. granted I consider everyone and everything a magickal being. (Ask me about my system of destroying vampires with a simple look). I figure a magickian controls the world around him. I suppose it&#8217;s time I start acting like that \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-2150\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/absent-and-introspective\/?share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-2150\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/absent-and-introspective\/?share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-2150\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/absent-and-introspective\/?share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lordandrei.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/02\/absent-and-introspective\/?share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\" ><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I haven&#8217;t been posting a lot of late. And my actual posts of any level of substance have dropped down to almost non-existance. Oh, sure there is the occasional meme, link, or youtube video. But posting about me&#8230; Not a whole lot to go on. I think I&#8217;ve been turning a bit inward. 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