Stay sharp...It's so much easier

Doing my good deed for the day I mowed my neighbors lawn today. Unfortunately for me the blade on my mower is as dull as a three day insurance seminar. I ended up going back and forth over the same path several times all because my blade wasn't sharp and it occurred to me that it applies to much more than mowing the lawn. It really can be everywhere. Why do the older folks(Of which I am about to become) eat the early bird special at 4pm? Conventional wisdom is because they go to bed early. Not at all. It's because when you get older like me your teeth aren't as strong or as sharp. We just have to allow an extra hour to chew our food. It looks like Mr Ed with a really bad hangover. Lips are going in all different directions trying suck food out of places that weren't there before. It's not so much chewing food, it's more of a mashing process. Teeth have basically been replaced by mortar and pestles.


How about dull parenting? Is there a parent out there that has grown tired of telling the kids to do the same thing over and over again? If there is I haven't me them yet. Just about the time you are sure the imps are destined for a life of picking up trash on the side of a highway they succumb to your wishes. Are they all border line retarded? Not at all. Maybe the commands and requests are just dull. What if you put it in a way that makes them excited to do it? A way that gives them pride and ownership of wanting to do it right? What if you kept their senses sharp by switching up their chores or duties? Maybe they aren't the one's who are are a little slow? Is it possible that it could be us? Asking the same way every time and expecting a different result is insane. Once again, staying sharp is just easier.


Five or six days a week we trudge off to work to do basically the same thing everyday. How long does each day seem if it's dull? Longer than a baseball season. Do at least one small thing differently everyday and it's not so dull. It keeps you sharp which makes your day better and more valuable. Sometimes it's as easy as taking a different route to work. Or talking to a co-worker you don't usually talk to. Read a book at lunch instead of what you usually do. It doesn't matter what it is as long as it's different.


Dull is not a word that you want to be associated with. Sharp on the other hand; sharp dresser, sharp as a tack, sharp wit and so on. Dull on the other hand is just uninspiring. Dull colors, dull presentations, dull blog posts and so on. The next step after dull is blunt. Does anyone ever strive to be blunt? Even if you get clubbed to death they give you a boring autopsy, blunt force trauma. Who sets that for a goal. So stay sharp everybody. It keeps your mind fresh and gives you new things to look forward to. If you don't mind dull that's fine too. Maybe we can talk about it over dinner sometime? Say around 4pm at the local cafeteria?





Till next........