All the best blogs seem to have answers to questions or stories that end with some great moral to the story. A moral or solution or answer .. like they have it all figured out but it JUST happened and thank goodness they were blogging and they solved the problem.
I can’t really be one of those blogs (or one of those bloggers) because I’m not a problem solver. Well, I am, but I don’t notice it until it’s too late and then it seems really irrelevant to share something that happened two months ago because, really, it’s not going to help anyone to know if you get a Higher One card in the mail you don’t have to activate it and you will have to put up with (what some might consider) harassing calls for a couple weeks but then they’ll send you your financial aid check for school and stop calling.
Well, maybe it will.
Perhaps the problem is that I don’t know what the relevant problems being solved in my life are. I mean, relevant to you. All my solved problems are relevant to me.
Well, I am, but I don’t think you need the heads up that if your husband puts down traps to get the mice that when one starts “eek-eeek”ing the best thing to do is sing Old McDonald’s Farm with the kids really loud so they don’t realize daddy is killing a living thing in the next room.
Now, I am trying to write and listening to Snap Judgement online. Have you heard this podcast? It’s fantastic. I love it. It’s still got that whole NPR thing going on but it’s edgier. Maybe it just seems edgy because I’m old. Maybe someone younger wouldn’t think this was edgy at all.
I wonder if I’m still relevant at all, or if I’m one of those people who think they’re relevant but really aren’t.
Do you ever wonder if you’re relevant still? It doesn’t have to be all big and “entirely” like when I’m wondering about it. Maybe just in one area. I wonder if artists wonder about their relevancy when they look for paint colors. Can a color become irrelevant?
I picture two artists in a store.
“Wow, I really did yellow.”
“Oh, didn’t you know yellow was so five years ago?”
“Really? What’s in now?”
“Celadon – tooootally celadon.”
“I hate celadon.”
“Too bad. All the relevant, real artists are using it. Have fun with yellow.”
I wonder if everyone feels irrelevant now and then.
Even more interesting – I wonder how long it lasts. When people feel irrelevant does it last five minutes, five days, ten days…or until the person comes up with something else to distract themselves?
Maybe I should keep a journal of problems I solve. From small ones to big ones. Then I could just kind of arrange them in terms of helpfulness. But for me to know what’s helpful for you, I’d have to read your mind and, sadly, that’s not part of my skillset.
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