'Til it's Gone

I'm sure you've heard the phrase, "you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone." Well, I don't know that it's always true, but that's where another great saying comes in: "how can I miss you if you won't go away?!" Moral of the story is that absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Wow. That's a lot of cliche for one paragraph! I've just been thinking about my busy, busy schedule for the musical production I'm in. I've had rehearsal at least 4 times a week for the past three weeks or so, and this week I haven't got a single rehearsal I need to be to. In a way it's refreshing, but I've got this fabulous enthusiasm going on, and I don't want to lose it. I suppose it will be a good time for me to do some personal upkeep on what I've learned as well as have some evening time free for.... well, you know. Not that anything out of the ordinary ladies' night out will happen, but you've got to make yourself available now and then or you won't have a leg to stand on when you decide to complain about your lack of social life. Ha, ha.

I never thought I would say this outloud, but we've been getting some dispute stuff in at work, and I have to admit that I missed the court documents. I hadn't realized how much I've missed working in litigation until I've been away and then gotten some in my li'l hands and felt how comfortable I was with it. It was a little bit like coming home and breathing easier because you know you're familiar with how it all comes together. Anyway - I'm not a litigious person... really. I just like to manage litigious people!! He, he, he.

Anyway, I suppose this has illustrated my first point. Many things come and go, and it's hard to know just how well we're doing with it around until it's gone, we have a new set of things to deal with and then we get a little taste of that back. I wish I could have a little more of a taste of other things I miss. I'll have to be patient with that, though. Time was man-made, but I doubt it can be man-destroyed. The more you fight against it, the more you lose and waste away.

Time is something by which we plan and execute our agenda, yet while it moves along it does so without one.