Life tends to blur once work starts its repetitive cycle and the milestones of childhood fade into distant memory. It is the challenge of our time to maintain a balanced sense of significance when all else seems mundane…

What did Abraham Lincoln think about on his 21st birthday? How extensive was Karl Barth’s understanding of theology when he was 18? Did anyone expect Einstein to amount to anything when he was 15? 20? Who is today aged 21¾ and in 30 years may be the President of the United States, or a multi-million-dollar CEO, or a father of 3?

Well, I can’t aspire to be the first of that list of three. The other two form part of an unending possibility…

It’s incredible to think that each of the prominent figures in the history of the world had a formative early life, a teenage learning period, a set of moulding circumstances. So here am I. What will I do today that has an outworking in 30 years’ time? What should I do today?

There is sometimes a sense of life balanced on a knife’s edge, and precariously at that. But for brief moments, and usually at long intervals only, it seems that the future opens out and the possibilities are spread to a perpetual horizon. So many different paths, and yet our actions decide at every instant the process of our journey. Some flicker and fade as we choose other ways, but still more ever-branching avenues of potential eventuality blink into view.

So it’s clear to me that anything can happen. Life is still what you make of it today. An incredible opportunity.

Why is is that musicians strive to be [better] musicians? What is it about the human psyche that comes alive when a ditty makes us laugh or a haunting violin draws a tear? Why is the theme to Forrest Gump so delightful, to Star Wars so resounding, and to Schindler’s List so mournful?

Without intending to sound too authoritative, there is the incredible feeling of wholeness and delight with the creation of something beautiful. It is as if the act of creation expresses a spiritual quality – harkening back to the creativity of the Creator.

Further, the tacit understanding which exists between communicating musicians who need not use words to express their shared experience is something no other discipline provides. It is so elevating to create something together.

I have no idea why you’re reading this, but there you are. You either got here by accident (in which case I wish you the best of fortune in attempting to ascribe any value to the comments of a complete stranger) or by word of mouth or personal recommendation.

If it’s the latter, you might just be interested in my opinion. In which case, go out and get a hold of the TV series Firefly from somewhere, and then watch the movie Serenity. Alternatively, if you can’t get Firefly, go and get Serenity and watch that. (Not saying you won’t desperately want to see Firefly after you’ve watched only the movie, but at least you’ll be motivated by personal desire rather than just random imperatives…)

It’s incredible. I’m not saying it’s perfect sci-fi, but I am saying it is great character development, good locations, excellent dialogue and great effects.

Now, where’s my brown coat?

So I thought to myself, “Self, it’s time for a change.” You see, I was a little tired of Blogger and the unfortunate inability to do anything much at all without difficulty. So I changed the underlying technology of this online presence to WordPress, and I’m quite happy. No more waiting around when publishing, or changing templates, or making style changes, or anything!

Oh, and by the way: Constitutional – P; Equity – C; Commercial Law and the Market – D.