Curb My Enthusiasm
"You have to move on," they say. That would be easy if there was something to move on to. The moving part is not the issue. It's the "on" part that is difficult. It's not like picking up another book or watching another movie. There's a human element that makes the moving difficult, and the on worse. Once I get my sights set on something, it is difficult to re-focus. Mostly because there is nothing else to focus on. Things come one at a time in my world. I'm not a social animal (quite the contrary) and the sights are few and far between. Now, I find myself staring down the gunsight at the horrible four months from November to February, where the world's focus shifts from the mundane to the holidays. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's, and Valentine's Day - a marketer's dream and a lonely man's dread. I realize that 95% of America has something to do on most of those days, and I can't begrudge someone ...