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Today I have been less than productive. So far I've managed to sleep until around 9, then in the two hours or so that I've been up I've managed to check my social networks, eat a breakfast of Greek yogurt, Mandarin oranges, and flax seed, and watch some sports on TV. Saturdays in the fall are made for college football. That being said, I found myself switching back and forth between the Nebraska/UCLA game and Chelsea/Everton Barclays Premier League soccer. Football was winning, but I'm finding myself getting more into soccer. I'm making an effort to become more global, and soccer is the biggest sport in the world. It was, however, something in the Nebraska/UCLA game that gave me thought for this post. As I was sitting there watching UCLA get ready to kick off after a field goal, you could hear Nonpoint's version of In The Air Tonight playing through the stadium loudspeakers. For whatever reason, that in turn made me think of my nephew, who is a freshman at Central Michigan, and a tweet he sent out the other day that said "college is 100000000 times better than high school." That made me think back for a microsecond before this thought flashed into my head: we spend far too much time comparing our current situations to the past. To carry that further we spend far too much time trying to replicate the past and not carrying on with our future. My wife for example constantly says "remember how I looked back when x? I'm gonna be that person again, that's my goal" and I think to myself, no matter how hard we try, we will never be the same person we where back then. Not a decade ago, not a year ago, not a moth, week, or even a day ago. Life affects us to that no matter what we do, we cannot replicate the past,even the most minute, microscopical change will never make us EXACTLY the way we were, so why do we spend so much time reflecting on it? I get the occasional walk down memory lane. I understand looking through photo books, and reminiscing, but the every day want that I see people have for the past seems like such wasted time and energy. If we put as much effort into thinking of our futures as we did our pasts, we as a society could be infinitely better, or at least further along. So as you all enjoy the rest of your Saturday, when you think back, don't do so with want, do so using what you've learned to better manage your future. As for me, I'm going to try and write some more. The positive feedback I got when I mentioned I was doing some writing really inspired me and as such I've almost doubled my word count. Unfortunately sometimes being a father/husband gets in the way and daily life interrupts the process. Please not, the key word there was try, as football is really calling my name.