2001-01-13 - 23:59:18

The Third Option

So far... this resolution thing is not working out so well. In spite of my best intentions, I'm falling behind on Uberhamster and the others are not doing so well either.

It seems to be a cycle I fall into. I see something that I don’t like, I vow to do something about it, not much is accomplished, and I beat myself over the head about it.

Maybe I should just shorten the process and beat myself over the head without the irksome preliminaries.

Lily pointed this out the other night. I don’t seem to expending much effort on my goals, but I'm tiring myself out with self-loathing.

Well, she put it much nicer than that, but you get the idea.

I've always been of the opinion that when faced with something you're unhappy about you have two options:

1) You can accept that there's nothing you can do about it, and try to find some serenity in the face of that, or

2) You can try to change it.

Unfortunately a lot of people choose to:

3) Do nothing, eat your heart out and complain about it.

I've got to stop choosing option three. I need to either relax, or get to work.

Any day now.