Almost did not make it...........

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Jan 4

I almost was not able to post my blog on time today and it is just day three of my one year commitment. I feel overwhelmed. There is so much to do and so little time. There are so many things I want to do. I want to meditate to reach enlightenment, do yoga to be limber and have deeper insights. I want to write every day three pages in my diary and take photographs on a daily basis to learn more about myself, the world and yes also to make money. I want to go to the gym to be strong and because I am vain, do kung fu to be able to defend myself in case I have to and write my blog to let the world know more about me and my work. I also live in the 21 Century. Now we have these beautiful machines that are supposed to save us a lot of time so that we can play more and work less. But is that really true? I do not think so. Because a computer does not work all the time. Sometimes I feel all I do is fixing things. The printer breaks, I need a new internal hard drive, I have to back up all my files and I have to calibrate my monitor. It never ends. And another day goes by on tech support lines and message boards, another day when I only fix things and do not do what want to do. And even though nobody wants to think about it, time here is limited. On the 3rd of January I always think about an old friend of mine. His name is Robert Pfau. He was my neighbor when I grew up in the Alps in Germany and today is his birthday. We used to hang out all the time. Back then we had a lot of snow during winter. Our favorite thing was to jump on our sledges and race down a narrow trail called by locals “das Wegele” that started right below my house and ended right in front of his. We were crazy, we sledged head on and we never ever slowed down. It was a risky business. You could hit a tree, a pedestrian or a car because the trail ended on a public road. It was especially exciting, because it scared our parents to death. We did that when we were six or seven years old. When I thought about him today I decided to give him a call. He still lives in Germany but today is his 36th birthday and he has two kids. What has happened? I have no idea. It feels like we were flying down that trail yesterday. This is why I am overwhelmed. Time runs through my fingers, there are so many things I want to do, so many images I want to take and I spend my time fixing my computer.

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