Red bicycle

As you probably noticed, I redecorated my site yesterday. I spent quite a while on it because it was difficult to translate my vision of what I wanted it to look like into the modified form blogger would allow. It’s not very easy to navigate between the design tabs and to then make the page look exactly right. But it’s a good change all the same.

Ever since I came up with the title of my blog (As the Clock Ticks), I envisioned a big wheel on a red bicycle. Yesterday I decided it was about time my page reflected this. When I think of time, I often think of the turning of a bicycle wheel. The spokes are like the seconds ticking away…these spokes are bringing you closer to your goals, and farther away from your past. (I suppose they could also be bringing you closer to bad things and away from good…). But either way, these wheels are taking you somewhere. The path is not always set, but the bicycle is your vehicle to take you wherever that somewhere is.

I also added the quote from Einstein “Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance you must keep on moving” because it puts into words exactly what I imagine to be true. So we will continue to ride on the bicycle of life As the Clock Ticks…

New Semester

I hadn’t realized it had been so many days since my last post…I suppose the aforementioned indolence completely took over. But either way, I’m finally writing again! (And hopefully will be able to better keep up with my posts since I’ll be on a slightly more structured school schedule). Today was largely uneventful. Yes, classes started back up, but nothing too amazing happened. I’m not sure what it is about the prospect of a new semester/school year, but it just makes me excited. I think of all the possibilities I could achieve within that given new time, and I just am always so excited. Reality will set in soon enough that it will be just another year (most likely without any kind of real magical occurrences)…yet, for the time being at least, the possibility is still open.

We all look for that ‘next chapter ’ (I apologize for the cliché) in which we will find true love, happiness, ourselves, money, our car keys…whatever we wish to find in our lives. Are  we really actively seeking these things? Who can say, but I do know that we use set time frames (like a semester) to help us to find/achieve whatever our goals may be. Motivation is driven by time crunches. However, let’s try not to wait until the very end of the semester to realize we haven’t taken the action we said we would. Today’s the day, carpe diem and all that… Let’s start this semester out on a high note As the Clock Ticks…