Here and There

“I’m so sorry I didn’t call you back.”

“Oh god, I totally forgot I was supposed to be there.”

“Yeah, I just never got around to it.”

“It’s true, I haven’t posted in forever. For this I am eternally sorry.”

The “busy” excuse is a euphemism. It translates roughly as “you (whether a person or activity) mean less to me than whatever else it is I was doing or tending to.”

It can also speak for a scatterbrain syndrome, in which the guilty party is simply too engulfed in too many activities to properly attend to others. There’s only so much room in the mental queue. Sometimes the mind pushes aside what it doesn’t deem vital, and in such cases, those items often disappear from the mental radar.

But it’s crap, really. It can be said to be indicative of a failure to prioritize, a failure to attempt to manage things. There are way too many devices and programs to help us remember things these days. There just also happens to be too little discipline. I speak for myself here.

Okay, so that’s my comment for the day. I use my own inability to post regularly to Here and There as a segue (I still love that word) to talking about something that bugs me: the busy excuse. No matter how true (and in this case, let me just state for the record that it’s the whole truth), it just shouldn’t slide.

So I resolve to be more diligent about posting. Trifles or no, minutiae it may have to be. I hope you enjoy.

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