Movement

* A friend expecting their second kid after just nine months having their first.
* A friend continue to pursue a girl in San Jose despite the obvious of just friends sign.
* The uncertainty of having a job in the next month, yet I feel indifferent about the topic.
* A friend has the honor to carry the Olympic torch but it was short lived.
* A friend forfeit 30K and can still laugh about it, but I know it hurts.
* A friend says he will be married by this year and yet he does not have a girlfriend.
These are the things that crossed my path this week. I am not sure what to write about them, but I thought I should at least record these little things that happen. I think stories are everywhere and it is just matter of listen more carefully to people. So what is my little story at this moment? For this week I tried to rehearse in my mind the idea of keeping things simple. Since I can remember I always felt like I needed to be in motion of constantly doing things. I guess when I was a kid I was told that I never have enough time and if I don't keep busy then I am wasting time. That is not something you say to a 7 year old, but that stuck to me. As I've gotten older and not wiser, I realize often the things I pursue I get most of the time and sometime I don't get. But I am for sure guilty of thinking more about the things that I did not get instead of the things that I got. If I would to look back, shortly after I graduated I wanted a house and a few months later I got a house. Then I wanted to travel to Europe like everyone else and a few months later I took an incredible trip with an united nation of friends. Then there was the time that I wanted to buy a Mercedes because I like the one I saw on the San Mateo bridge, a few months later I got my car to celebrate the millennium. Then there was the time when I wanted to be able to travel like I own a jet, so a few months later I got a job with an airline so I can travel to see my family in LA while able to travel to places that I always dreamed about. But for some reason, this year I keep thinking that I still have so much I need to do and I don't seem to have the time to do them. I got to admit some of these things I just put off and I question whether I am motivated to do them. I think as I gotten older I gotten more extreme on the idea of being in constant motion. There are days when I need to keep moving, otherwise I feel like there is something wrong and then there are days when I am the exact opposite. I can probably say it is age, but I think it is in a way just understanding that not everything weight that heavy. Not getting is sometime as good as getting something. So there comes to my reason of trying to keep things simple. No simple to the sense that I just get by, but simple so that the stuff that I am after does not weight me down.

So for this past week, I am taking a page out of Bobby Fisher's play book. I decide to hold back on my activities so I stand back and understand this chess game of life. So every one's story is developing and I wonder what my next chapter is about. I am little bit nervous, a little bit all over the place, and a lot excited to see how things will be.