Many Returns?

It is only during those tedious expanses of time following the thrill of commencement (the, um, other 98% of life) that everything goes awry.

Basic pattern:

1. Manic burst of enthusiasm
2. Brief but obsessive engagement with new idea, project, person, resolution--or blog, perhaps.
(To the exclusion of dishes, duties and other assorted drudgeries of daily life--tax papers in particular.)
3. Sudden and bewildering dissolution of all energy for new passion
4. Immediate abandonment of pursuit
5. Search for large rock to live under
6. Promise to remain under rock house-arrest until discovery of cure for such behavior
7. Reconsideration of above vow at first flicker of new flame of passion for something else
8. Repeat

Thankfully, once in a miraculous while, there is a pattern interrupt.

A cautious crawling out from under the stone and a slow and sobering re-engagement with the previously abandoned passion. Over time, a few baby steps toward those most elusive and magical states known as focus and balance.

[via Chameleon Chronicles]