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December 21, 2004
Haiku Reality Check
As I’ve been so busily studying, going to class, working, writing blog entries, working more, cycling, reading, helping other people, spending time with my friends and family, and so on, I have irresponsibly ignored a few basic things in my life. Before it was my health being ignored, but now it’s some of my bills. It should not surprise me that I have a problem, but it did take me by surprise. Circumstances came up, like buying new batteries for the cars, helping my son pay 500 dollars for his college that he was short and insuring my daughters car, among other things. Bills are a challenge even when I am paying attention to them!
More specifically, somehow I did not pay my trash bill. Now I have no trash service. I suspect I’ll clear it up after Christmas, since I don’t have enough money now. But it’s still disturbing. I find myself caught with my pants down. Haha, it would be nice to say I have perfected the function of existing, but this proves I’m just like everyone else, trying to make it the best way I know how. I will learn from this no doubt and it will be painful. Something like a trash bill is easy to pay if it’s paid right away, but when added up over several months, it’s a lot of money. I don’t know how I let this slide by. But I did. The trash company is not happy with me either.
So here I am like this person in the Haiku, getting a reality check. I realize that it’s late, I've been wandering around, the moonlight that I’ve been following went quickly and now I’m standing far away from home in the dark. And it stinks. They stopped picking up my trash! To make matters worse, I don’t have the money now to pay for it until next week. I’ve been too busy to notice some of the details in my life or think it significant enough to worry about. Now I have to walk in the dark back home, to a place where there is light and warmth. Thank God I paid my mortgage payment.
From Haiku, Seasons of Japanese Poetry,
I’ve wandered on to-night,
Till now I see the summer moon
Sink sideways out of sight.
- Bukaku
Posted by carl1236 at December 21, 2004 08:38 PM | Balance