I have no idea if the title for this post will actually indicate what I'm writing here, but hey I got a chuckle from thinking of it, so there!  Ha!

Wow, I can't believe I've been lacking in my blogging as of late.  That past sentence I wish I could ignore like that cancerous growth on my neck, but hey it's there and nothing I can do about it (That was random and odd, and this blogger doesn't represent the humour of cancerous growths on anything let alone condoning the suppression of necks).

At any rate, life for me, in the past while since I have made a personal post about myself, has well….moved on.

Life is life and some things happen that you don't expect.  Like failing a film production class!!!  Yay!

So in case if you missed the sarcasm, yes I was, and still am a bit upset that it happened.  It's something I kind of expected, but the reality of said failing grade didn't hit me until I received that fateful sheet of dead tree telling me I failed by four percent.  Yes that's right four percent.  Of course I could immediately come up with excuses about as to why I had failed, and even being a public person on Ted Steven's Tubes it's hard to admit failure, but then I realize that failures in life are not failures but only setbacks.

“But, Steve you're taking the glass is half full approach.”  And, yes I am.  But why is there such a distinction that people who have glasses half full or half empty.  Why categorize life situations as winnings or failures.  If I take into account all the negative things, or failures, that have happened to me this year over the positives I would be in the glass half empty cup.  And yet I don't feel that way.  As I'm writing this I don't know why I feel this way, but I do.

Damnit I should be upset!  I mean it's only a healthy emotion!

And yet the only emotion that can be felt is patience.  I know it isn't an emotion, but I'm patient because yes failing a course means a whole year extra to my studies has just been added.  However, I feel fine about it.  Before I got into the Broadcasting program I would get upset and stressed, and freaked out over a piece of info that financial aid needed that I didn't have to give and it would mean everything was over for me.  And yet now, i don't feel that way anymore.

Does it mean I'm getting older, or wiser, or apathetic?

Maybe a bit of all three.

So as I leave this post and if you have actually read this far, I would encourage you to think of any failure as only a setback.  Minor or major it doesn't matter.  Failure is just another way of saying, okay so your current path has a huge log that crashed down blocking your way.

Let's find a chainsaw.

Toodles!

I have a few trees to disect.

Steve “Lumberjack Snowball” Saylor

P.S.  this blogger does not represent or reflect any harmful act towards the Save the Trees Inc. and in no way condones the cutting down of trees or cutting up trees that have been decaying on roads.  Only if they are used as metaphors for a funny or philosophical joke.

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