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February 21st, 2007
11:55 pm - Beating back the funk...
Right after my last post, I decided I was going to be happy and I wasn't going to let work or life stress get me down. Then I lost my wallet. I've lost important things my entire life but it still drives me insane when it happens. For two days I searched high and low for the wallet. Finally, I had to accept it was gone. I spent the next few days trying to catch up on work while taking care of all the things that needed to be done because I lost my wallet (e.g., canceling and getting replacement credit cards, getting a new driver's license, etc.). I'm still dealing with some of the ramifications of losing my wallet and I'm still trying to get on top of my workload.
I was actually depressed for about two days. I snapped out of it when I re-remembered that there are more than 6.5 billion people in the world, with about 300 million of them in the U.S. Many would argue that even the worst off of the people in the U.S. are probably better off than most of the rest of the people in the world. I know my life is at least in the upper half of the 300 million. So, there are about 6 billion people who have it worse than I do on a daily basis. After that, I shook myself out of my doldrums.
I'm back at it, working hard to get things done, working hard to stay in shape. I've put on a few pounds but now I'm really focused on working them back off. On Monday I ran 7.1 miles in 11 degree windchill. I was cold and tired when I finished but it felt soooo good. Tuesday I ran 3 miles in 25 degree weather, and today I ran 5 miles in 45 degree weather. I'm back!
It's late so I have to sleep. I'm going to place a link to two things here. The first is to a pdf of an edited version of our holiday letter that we sent late in December. The second is to a thought provoking video.
Letter
Video
Good night.
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