Monday, February 18, 2008

wow

Well, I am just besides myself, and of course it is difficult to share the enthusiam with any one. I have been busy to say the least with driving up from this semi-topic environment to the somewhat iffy climate of South Carolina for 4 days of emersing myself within various golf courses in the Myrtle Beach area. The experience was one of those increadable natures, like you really would have to have been there to appreicate it, and of course, that is the situation. As yet I truely have not been able to effectively discribe this experience to another, mostly due to my inablilty to communicate and partly due to the abosolute lack of interest on the part of my listeners. I am aware of each persons needs to express words regarding their own self, each of us, and certainly me, have the inner need to be the focus of conversations with others. I have and am working on being, sometimes not very well, other times fairly well, a better listener. This intales not responding with a story about myself or something about my family whenever another relates something about them. However, I certianly would like at times to be able to have that same consideration. I know that sounds awefully selfish, I know that sounds so self absorbed, but truely I just believe it is taking turns. There are moments when each person needs to be able to discuss a portion of their life with others and have each of the listeners respond accordingly about those comments, that is to keep the conversation about the person who is sharing a moment of their life. Then after that is over and prehaps even another time those who listened could be the talkers. But life is not like that mostly, it is not that fair, we each struggle to be the center of what ever circle we are within. So my excitement over this course of that hole, this shot of that missed one, shall forever be within me, mostly due to my lack of being able to remember each one that thrilled me at the time, and partly to not being able to get it out.
Yet, wow! one of the greater times of my life, and yes, I know that sounds stupid, chasing a little white ball around the landscape. But unless you have done it, and done it with 7 others who appreciate the landscape and the challenge, you just cannot know.