March 31: Nothin'

With each passing day into 2010, the task of finding, identifying or blatantly trying something new is becoming increasingly challenging. I knew it wouldn't be easy, but, I'm discovering a little more each day that people like routine. We're comfortable with what we know, what we do, what we eat, what we buy (either that or I'm just extremely boring). As a result, we fail to recognize the little things we do every day; new experiences that, believe it or not, help us continue learning, growing and evolving. Instead, we choose to focus on the big goals that will allow us to become who we want to be instead of who we are, where we want to be instead of our current place in life, and what we want instead of all the things we already have. And while I could claim this "discovery" as my new experience for March 31, I'm not. That realization hasn't occurred on any single day, but rather it's been building since I wrote my first entry on January 1. But, today was different from any other day this year. Today was the first day, since I began this blog journey, that I could not think of one thing I tried, did differently or came across that was a new experience for me. Not one. Was I disappointed? No. A few years ago I would have been. I would have equated the lack of a new experience with failure to achieve my goal. Fortunately, these 3 months have taught me to see things a little bit differently. In my own humble opinion, coming up snake eyes on a new experience today is in itself a new experience. An experience from which I'll take away the lesson that sometimes "status quo" is impossible to avoid, no matter how hard you try. Sure, some of you are going to balk at this, say I'm reaching or perhaps even cheating this "goal" that I've established. Others might see it as my "get out of jail free" card or Lifeline if you will. And still others won't care much one way or another. But, the fact is, right or wrong, I honestly did nothing out of the ordinary today...and, believe me I was paying very close attention. Let's just hope tomorrow's a little more interesting, you know?