Yes I know I'm borrowing that phrase but I want to write something positive for a change as opposed to the last few days. Life is not all bitterness, ugliness and sadness. There is beauty, wonder and happiness in it too. I want to write about these things as well so that there is a more accurate balance of how things actually are. Things are not all black and white to use a corny phrase, they are not all happy or all sad, they are a mixture of everything and you have to pick what you want out of it when you have the chance.
Let start with something I love about my wife. I first met her by talking to her online on a MUD (go look that up if you have no idea what that is :-) ) I ran at university. Our first conversation were pretty much identical to IM conversations today. I saw then how amazing her wit, her sense of humour and her grasp of language was. She is able to instantly come back with a reply to something someone says that can make you laugh, make you gasp at how clever it is or simply make some idiot shut the hell up since they have no way of thinking up a come back. It is amusing to watch her insult an idiot and have them be completely oblivious to it.
How cool are polar bears? My wife and I went to see them in the wild a few years ago in Churchill in Canada. If you see polar bears in a zoo you are not seeing them at all, you have to see them in the wild. The only shame about seeing them there was that is was an unusually warm October and so there was no snow. However even with that seeing them out there, especially this one large male that must have been over 1000lbs in weight was an experience we will never forget. Also how cute are polar bear cubs?
I love playing videogames, it has been a hobby of mine since literally the 1970s. I find them relaxing, enjoyable and a way to stretch my mind. I love the fact that my wife will let me just sit and play games for hours at a time, there are some days on a weekend when it is all that I will do, we are talking about a dozen hours in a single day.
Time for something about my wife again, she is the most kindhearted generous person I know. She loves giving presents to people, from little things that mean something to them to large wonderful things that the person really wants. She also likes receiving gifts from me but she gives far more than she receives.
I've been earning a good wage for quite a while now, after struggling early on in my career to simply pay the bills it became easier some years after moving to the USA. Once we got to that point we could stop worrying about paying the bills and simply live as comfortably as we want, having that security is a very freeing thing. I don't think I could easily go back to how it was where bills would be paid at the last minute just to keep up with the money coming in and going out.
I've been sitting here writing this post talking to my wife for a little while now this evening and just being together with her like this, talking about happy things. As I write this though her computer just crashed and has to be restarted so I'm going to stop here so she has a reason to start her computer back up again to read this post.
More positive and negative things in posts are coming, I'm just trying to make my thoughts in this blog more like what life is really like and not have them skewed too far one way or the other. There will be highs and lows obviously since that is real but I think on balance it will be as close as I can make it to reality.
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