(#5913) Chores always being added to my to do list

      I was just sitting here in front of my blog ready to write when I thought about how peaceful I feel at the moment. This last week has been a whirlwind of projects to get accomplished here at home. I am done with the most important and prioritized ones along with many smaller ones that keep nagging at the back of my brain. Yes, I don't need anyone to tell me to get off my butt and get things done as I have been real good at doing it to myself most my life. So here I sit with a calmness that is peaceful and resting. Yet as is always the case, once I get a tough assignment done I am ready for another unexpected event.
     But that isn't right now and I am good with this moment. I don't know what it is about getting things done that to many outside observers appear to be insignificant but I can tell you if I don't stay relentless, the tasks continue to pile up and become almost insurmountable. What is kind of cool is that I am always searching to define my purpose in life and it is obvious to me that I need to get things done where I can. My life is a to do list of some degree not limited to the daily and unexpected tasks I normally encounter. My to do list is to make our world a better place than before I got here. Not easily done as we all know.
     However whether easy or impossible I find that I have to try. What makes things even more difficult is when we do figure out a pathway toward progress someone comes along and screws it all up. Thus leaving at least me and those like me with a despair that is confounding. Yet I understand the nature of our species. We cannot have it to good for some reasons and we cannot have it too bad for other reasons. I don't get that illogic but I have to accept it is all around me and my ilk. Yet I still don't change. I have to do what I can do and then enjoy the moments afterward as the precious gifts they are. I always have more to do but whatever is most pressing as a high priority must be done and then acknowledged with a smile and a satisfying moment of reflection.