Something

In the movie Finding Forrester, one of the characters says that the key to writing is to not think and just start writing. So tonight, I write, even though I don’t know what it is I really want to write about. While writing, I’m also watching American Idol. It’s always a riot watching that show. It’s also nice to be able to follow some of the contestants, see their potential and see them go on to the AI finals. I once worked with a team doing Sarbanes-Oxley work for an out-of-town client and we all stayed together in one hotel. Every Wednesday and Thursday, we would all be excited to go home and buy or make our dinner. By 8 pm, you will find us either in our own rooms watching AI, or together in one of the rooms also watching AI and having a coffee party or chocolate party or whatever party we all happen to think of. It didn’t really matter then, but one of us will just call someone and pretty soon we would all be together somewhere.

I guess that how things start to happen, someone starts calling, or someone stands or asks for something. During the Christmas break, our family went to an uncle’s place somewhere in southern Negros. It’s this place that’s located up in the hills, where it’s quiet and all you see are green hills, trees, sugarcane fields and the clouds in a blue sky. No noisy cars, tall buildings, or traffic. We weren’t the only ones who finally got somewhat tired of sitting around there, for pretty soon our other uncle stood up and asked if we can organize a trip to the town center. You know… civilization. :) Of course, all the kids stood up and started getting ready to go!

We had a good time with that little road trip to town. We went to the city plaza with the really old trees, to the busy market in all its chaos, to a mini-mall, and then had halo-halo at a small restaurant near the stalls selling firecrackers and fireworks. We were glad our uncle got to go around.

We all don’t know what will happen. But there sure are some things we want to do and places we want to go to. But in a lot of ways, the key is to start something and take the first step. Or it could be something much simpler such as to start writing, or start watching, or start a party… something.