I almost didn’t do any New thing today.  I almost just let the challenge slide by.  I know that it wouldn’t be the end of the world if I missed a day, but I feel like if I miss one day, I will miss another and another.  Give entropy an inch and it will take a mile.

I know from experience how quickly I can lose steam on something.  Considering how lazy I can be, this is not an easy thing I have given myself to do.  Some of the items are easy on an individual level but taken as a whole this project has truly become a challenge.  It is only going to get harder as I whittle down my list of easy one day projects.

Today’s ‘new thing’ for instance entailed purchasing something on Groupon.  I know that seems kind of extremely simple – buy something on a website – is hardly groundbreaking.  But I have wanted to try Groupon out for a while, so it does count as new.  Maybe not terribly noteworthy, but this challenge is not really about being noteworthy.  It’s about doing all those things that I have thought about doing but never got around to.  It’s about putting a little bit of color into my day by trying something.  It’s about being present for life, if even for just a few moments in a day.  I have spent way too much time walking around in daydream, thinking about what could have been, or what might be.  I have let so many days pass me by without making or learning or trying.  It is so easy to get wrapped up in the perfunctory nonsense of modern living – laundry and dishes and tv and Facebook and staring off into space wondering where the day went.  I feel like I have done more in this last month than I have done in previous 6 months combined.  All it takes is a darned sock here, and a craft project there. 

It is exhausting though.