One can’t expect to get things right on the first try, and that seems especially true for parenting. As a parent, you do the very best you can to prepare yourself for the little scrapes and bruises that life—and sometimes other people—deals out. However, there’s little to prepare you for a day in which your little person is the giver of such a hurt.

I think the best thing one can do from the situation is patch up the wounds and make an attempt at a very serious understanding that hurting people is not a good thing and that sadly, hurting people doesn’t take a whole lot of effort sometimes. The most difficult things tend to become second nature after just being alive for long enough that you lose perspective until it walks up and slaps you in the face. As a parent this happens often and there’s no panacea.

Parents who have been through the younger years offer advice and there’s some value to it, just as this outpour of feeling would be to someone reading it that might be going through the same thing. I could overanalyze this isolated event and obsess as some do but life’s moving forward and I’ve no choice but to adapt, observe and evolve.

“The trouble is, you think you have time.”

-Not Buddha

If you audit the content of my posts, chances are you’d find that about half of them are about motivation or really lack thereof. There’s no real reason for that amount, actually, since the reason for me complaining about a lack of motivation is me being captive in front of a computer with a little time on my hands (read:blogging) and wasting it on something not really all that important (read:blogging), because I find I’m generally more productive now than I’ve ever been. I kinda have to, but that’s really not the point.

I’ve not less or more motivation that I did when I first started this thing but I suppose eventually once you start reporting on your own activities to a faceless public you begin to push yourself to deliver some kind of result. Well, there have been a couple things I started but really didn’t do much with and that’s really no way to run a railroad. I know, excuses, excuses. If all those vloggers on YoutTube can blather on about bullshit for five or six minutes once a week and make a ton o moolah doing it than I’ve nobody to blame but myself. Seriously.

Dubstep Dispute from Fluxel Media on Vimeo.

Lil’ Red from cale atkinson on Vimeo.