I have done a bad job of collecting recently. Quotes, thoughts, ideas, sentences, words. Hunting and gathering words both helps me learn and fuels my joy. This message board comment (!) I stumbled upon after Michigan’s title game win over Washington is the type of thing I love collecting. Even if it’s just to read it back to myself at some point in the future.
The older that I get, the more I realize it is harder to ‘feel’. Life sucks our passions right out of us. We learn that the joy of committing to something isn’t worth the pain of losing it. At 46, most of my passions seem to have melted into nothingness.
But Michigan football remains. I have to say it’s largely because of MGoBlog. Here it feels okay to care about something, even while we acknowledge that we are rooting for a team, a group of kids that change from year to year, something we have little control of. We acknowledge that we have passions and that it is indeed okay to care, to be human.
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