Brainstorming

So I haven’t actually posted anything noteworthy yet. But I’ve had various “bright ideas” pop into my mind every so often which I want to make into an entry. Yet the sad part is that I never actually get around to posting it. Perhaps I haven’t “gotten into the hang of it” or maybe I’m just plain irresponsible. Or, maybe I’m too tied up with wanting to make an interesting, well thought-out and well written post so that others can read it. Probably all of the above… and then some.

But going back to irresponsibility, I’ve always thought myself a responsible and mature person. Yet as I look at how I live and how those older than me live, there’s a stark contrast in our actions. I think I’m responsible because I always take care of whatever tasks (mostly) that other people ask me to do. This includes things like schoolwork, meeting someone at a certain time, completing something I’ve committed to to someone else. But when it comes to things that nobody asks me to do, or things that I assign for myself that aren’t immediately pressing, then I usually don’t get around to them.

When I watch my dad, he doesn’t just do things that people ask him to do, he does things that have to be done. Things like mopping up the kitchen floor, helping my sister with her schoolwork after a full day at work, waking up early to do things that need to be done. You get the picture. I always think I’ll become like this kind of person once I have to fill those shoes.

We all know how dumb that idea is.

Always we’re told to first become someone of character before we inherit the particular responsibility we desire. Yet it seems that I can never shake off the truth in the good old Toys ‘R Us song… “I don’t want to grow up, I’m a Toys ‘R Us kid”… I still like to kill time by playing meaningless games. I can’t develop habits that I want in my life and I can’t get rid of habits I don’t need. In some ways, this mirror’s Paul’s conflict of two natures in not doing what he desires, but always doing what he does not. Of course, Paul’s dilemma wasn’t due to maturity. Anyhow, before I disqualify myself with my Bible commentary, the fact of the matter is that the vicious cycle of laziness and irresponsibility must be broken and a new cycle of discipline must be cultivated. Now this sounds all nice and dandy, but I’ve probably made this mental commitment to myself dozens of times. So what’s gonna change this time around? Well I guess I’ll start first by keeping a better track of how I’m doing. That means keeping up the posting and targeting issues that I can improve in.

So here’s a list:

- Radical action for changing lifestyles

- Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man… O_o ?

- External ministry vs. internal ministry

- Gaming

- Family man

- Career? Already?

- whatever else I come up with later

So feel free to bug me to get to these topics if somehow I’ve seemed to gone AWOL again.