I've tried coming back to this post a few times now. I have a quote I want to write about, but every time I try to go back to the post to write about it... I lose my thoughts. I get distracted by the smallest things- the wind blowing, a noise downstairs, a conversation going on a room over from me... it's awful. Every time I try to focus on this one quote, I lose my thoughts and I can't pull myself together enough to actually write about it. Maybe it's a sign- maybe I should just let it go, and leave the quote for another day. Maybe I should just leave it for my dad to write about.
Do you ever get that feeling? When you go to do something, and every time you try you get side-tracked so you start believing that maybe you just aren't meant to do that specific thing? I trust my gut instinct a lot in life, and I've come to find out that life will often shove you on the right path of things. It's your choice or not to follow that path- and if you're lucky, life will consistently remind you why you SHOULDN'T do that specific thing (for whatever reason) by sidetracking you from it over and over again. Mind you, I'm not saying that distractions are an excuse for things that NEED to be done... but I do think that they can be convenient. For example, there was once a time where I saw a truck fishtail off the road and almost hit the truck in front of us. That morning, my family had been on our way to church and one of us had been running slightly late for whatever reason... and while it caused brief turmoil in the car, it also prevented us from being slightly ahead of schedule- and right where the accident would've been. I call situations like this "stoplight situations"- and the reason for this is because when I was younger, I always used to overthink EVERYTHING- even if it was really stupid in retrospect. In any case, I always used to look at stoplights and count how many we could get through right as they changed, or while they were green. I always used to think that if the light wasn't green when we passed through it, then we were behind or ahead of our schedule because the light was supposed to be green when we went through it, if that makes any sort of sense. So in a way, our distractions can put us behind schedule... but in away that benefits us and puts us ahead of our scheduled death on any given day. I don't know. I just wanted to get my thoughts out a bit in this post. I hope you enjoyed. - Maddie
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