Another Realization

As I finally have found some time to sit down and write a bit (work is simply sucking my summer away from me), I can't help but mention the man who in a way sort of inspired me to start this blog in the first place, Mark Titus. He, as I'm sure many of you know is the founder of Club Trillion (you can follow his blog if you want-I do) and has christened this week Nut Up or Shut Up Week because he is doing his best to post on his blog once a day. I mention this because since my own personal blog is called the "Daily Segs" one would figure that I would post on here every single day, and for a while I did do that. During spring quarter was when I began this little beauty and vowed to write every day. I have since gotten away from that for a number of reasons. The easiest one to blame it on is the fact that I'm working 40+ hours a week at a distribution center and after leaving there it is either really late or I am exhausted or both. But the main reason (it pains me to say) is just pure laziness, because I know damn well that I am up at a decent hour everyday before work and could post then if I just quit being a dump and did it.

I'm going to do my best to get back to those ways of posting everyday, starting today. Now, as I said I felt compelled to mention Mark "The Shark" Titus both because I absolutely love his blog, and think the dude is hilarious. I would really love to meet him someday, and encourage all of you to read his posts from this week because they are Mark at his very best.

One of them talks about his last weekend, when he was Indiana and spent some time with some old friends from school. That got me thinking and again I came to a realization.

Yes, the majority of this whole summer has been spent working by me, but I still had goals to see a fair amount of my friends from high school to do something fun with them to catch up and all that, but I have not done that. I've made a concerted effort to make it happen with my closest friends so therefore it has, but for the others who I would have liked to have seen it simply has not. Everyone is on different schedules with when and where they are working (if they are) and when they go back to school. A lot of them (those who are on semesters) are heading back this week or this weekend to get back to the school grind and all I have to say is that they are lucky and it's a shame that I was not able to make time to see them. As I said, I would have loved to been able to hear about there first year of school but I guess it wasn't meant to be.

This whole thing has gotten me thinking though, and I realized that it's not like too many of them tried to contact me about getting together and doing something either. Both of my sister have told me numerous times how you grow apart from people who you graduated high school with once we all go our separate ways, and it is something that can't be helped. Sure, I miss them but if they don't want to put for the effort to get together then I'm not going to either.

Sure, I saw a few of them at Harrison's or in town but other than that it really didn't happen. It has occurred to me that I just have to keep those close who I really wish to keep close and let everything else happen in the way that God wants it to, because after all he knows what is going down. I sure as hell don't.

Now, don't think I have no idea what people are doing, I mean I am on Facebook along with the rest of the world (can you imagine how rich the guy is who invented that thing?). But sometimes Facebook really pisses me off, and when you really sit down and think about how much time you waste on that thing it's disgusting. Yes it is really nice to have to stay in contact with people, but some of us who are on there literally ALL the time need to get their priorities straightened out in my opinion. I mean, think about how much time we waste on there that could be put to other things such as oh I don't know, maybe working or reading a book? And we all wonder why everything thinks that we are all Big Dumb Fat and Happy Americans. Well, we are. That's a story (a very opinionated one) for another day.

Mom is making me lunch today before I go slave away for 8+ hours. Keep it real and don't do anything stupid. Peace.

Proud Buckeye and Sports Enthusiast,

Eric Seger

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