How's the weather...

Its curious how the weather can be reflective of life changes. One moment its sunny outside and seemingly scant minutes later its totally cloudy and overcast and dark, only to be sunny again minutes later. This is the type of morning its been, which made me ponder my life over the last few months. I guess I've been living under a cloud lately with both personal life and work stresses that seem to be more poignant than usual. I was beginning to think that this would be the way I would live my life forever.

In the last couple of weeks some seemingly random events have had a real positive impact on me. There are some rays of sunshine breaking through the clouds. I'm enjoying both old and new friendships and I've started to work out again. Hopefully this takes me through the always dreary months of winter ahead.

R.

Random thoughts from the weekend...

So as I dragged my ass out of bed this morning at 6 am and went to the pool for a swim, it seemed crazy and that I should seek professional help. Anyway, the thought passed and I actually felt great after my swim. Its only been 2 weeks but I'm already feeling stronger in the water. Last week was a bit discouraging because I'm so out of shape. I really need to work on my conditioning.

Oh yeah, in case you're wondering, its snowing outside now.

I was listening to XM Radio on the my drive in and they had an amazing song line-up. Audioslave, Live, Sum 41, Creed, STP, OLP etc... was awesome. I found myself pondering the last verse of Audioslave's Like a Stone...

And on I read

Until the day was gone

And I sat in regret

Of all the things that I've done

For all that I've blessed

And all that I've wronged

In dreams until my death

I will wander on

Just an amazing song with powerful lyrics.

I was actually doing some reading this weekend on Wikipedia and came across an interesting definition

Self-fulfilling prophecy...

Sociologist Robert K Merton defines it this way:

The self-fulfilling prophecy is, in the beginning, a false definition of the situation evoking a new behaviour which makes the original false conception come 'true'. This specious validity of the self-fulfilling prophecy perpetuates a reign of error. For the prophet will cite the actual course of events as proof that he was right from the very beginning

This is actually very fascinating. There are examples from history and religion such as Moses, and Oedipus etc. where this principle applies. I'm going to have to do some more reading on this, hopefully more thoughts to come.

That's it for now...

R.