Distractions...

A double edged sword!

Everyone has experienced at least one distraction in their life.  Most a few, some many.

Being distracted is not always a bad thing.  It is through distraction, that is taking focus off of a topic of interest, that some of the greatest ideas, discoveries, and inventions to date, have occurred.

"Oh... look here!  Shiny sparkly thingy!"
      Really!?  Where?  Ahhh...



Hence, cold fusion is impossible; as the mass necessary to create the compression and pressure necessary to fuse two distinct atoms together into one, has such an exothermic discharge that it creates both light and heat.

Even "cold" stars, are incredibly hot, with temperatures measured on the Kelvin Scale.

Now that you have just read and thought about that for a second...

Life is pretty simple.  One is born, and then eventually, one dies.  I know that sounds harsh, yet it is reality.  What one does, in the "between"... well that is their own personal journey.  Sometimes shared, sometimes accompanied, sometimes kept private.

Distractions in life, is the core determinate of experience. 

Imagine (a purposeful distraction this time) for a moment, if on the day you were born, you knew and understood that you would eventually die.  How would your life have been different?  As of today, right now, this instant, as you are reading this, would you have done anything different?  Taken more, or perhaps less, risks?

The child who hears a pianist play Mozart, someone who looks through a telescope and sees the rings of Saturn, a person that realizes a new use for an existing thing...

It all comes together.  The experience, albeit full of distractions, is life!

I understand that sounds circular, yet ponder this...

The distractions of a seven year old boy, led to a career choice.  And after 27+ years into the career, that little boy, has affected more lives than most will ever meet!

Family and friends are important.  It is the stranger that often means the most.  A distraction from the eventuality.  Even when, the eventuality is occurring for the stranger...

I am humbled, and honored.