It rained today, and I spent some time driving through it, listening to it, and getting wet in it. You see, rain is almost 100% water, and that’s a Good Thing in a nation suffering from the worst drought in recent history. It was the rain which reminded me that summer is well behind us, which in turn served to remind me that time is wearing on, as it does, in it’s plodding and determined way.

So this train of thought carries my mind’s travels to a question I asked someone recently: if you could change one thing about your life at the moment, what would that thing be? Unusually, perhaps, I had not formulated an answer to my own question before asking it, and it got me thinking quite deeply.

I recall saying eventually that I would sleep more, but I don’t think that was the key point. The fact is, during the end of last year and the start of this one I was feeling pretty hectic and equally dissatified with the level of unsatisfying activity I was involved in. But now, upon reflecting on my reflection, I realise something incredibly reassuring: I am, at last, quite pleased with the range and diversity of my life’s activities!

The mundane and the exciting have now balanced out, and while my level of activity overall has remained insanely high, the quality and fun-factor of my choice of activities has increased dramatically. I use the exciting to motivate myself for the mundane, and the result is a certain happiness combined with contentment that is simply superlative.

Let the good times never end…