Phases

Am I the only person that is really stoked that this year is a leap year? From what I've seen so far, people seem more excited about Groundhog Day tomorrow than the fact that we get to live an extra day this year! What that means is that I get to be 21 an extra day longer than I got to be 20, or 22.

I'm a dork, I know.

Anyways, we had a two hour floor meeting tonight so that's why I didn't get to blog until past midnight. We were doing some encouragement thing with yarn so it took forever. It was really nice to have positivity spread around the pod and to know that there are some nice people.

Recently, I've been thinking about all the phases, or all the fads, that happen over the years. To illustrate, I will briefly walk through some of the phases I've experienced in my life.

• Pogs! I was incredibly young so I never really did a whole lot with them.
• Pokemon! Might be the biggest fad I caught onto.
• Yu-Gi-Oh and Beyblade! At the same time, these things popped up and consumed hours, as well as dollars, of my life.
• And then in high school and onward, there weren't really any dominant trends because there were quite a few that could go on over a period of time.

So now that I think about it, I own a lot of these things that are just kind of sitting around the place that I really don't touch anymore. So with the things that I am currently aware of, such as Rubik's cubes (even though they're not mine), speed Scrabble, etc., etc., I kind of wonder in a couple of years where will they be collecting dust? Not trying to be cynical, but I can't help think that eventually, we're going to all grow out of these phases that we're in and then we will have "wasted" so much time and money developing these "skills" or whatever you want to call them, just to have moved on to other things.

And then I think about how we're always like, "ooh the things in this world will all pass away, and all our treasure in heaven will be eternal." I guess that passing away part is already evident. Because even though all of these things have shaped who I am and who we are, what do they really mean in the grand scheme of things? What or how are they really represented in who I am. Does having beat every single Pokemon game affect who I am on a day to day basis right now? Probably not. Does doing magic trick really affect the way I go about business? Other than maybe impressing a girl here or there, I doubt it.

So I guess it's one thing to jump on a bandwagon, but a whole different monster to be someone that starts a trend or phase. Kudos to those that have been successful in starting some, or renewing some.

I wonder what the next one will be? Selling all our belongings because the world is ending this year?

HAHA!