Tom Petty

 

I can't decide whether or not I like Tom Petty.  He's certainly written a few songs I'd consider 'good'.  And in the 90's, he really made a splash.  But his voice can be a little grating.  His songs a little boring.  And I could be out of line in saying this, but here goes: he looks like he might smell a little weird in person.  With that out of the way, I feel I should tip my hat to the man - at least for tonight - for he wrote a line in one of his songs that reads as follows: "The waiting is the hardest part."  In that, he couldn't be more right!  *digress*

I've recently made some fairly significant changes in my life.  I've started running three days a week.  Eating better and dressing nicer.  Most recently, I've started looking very closely at improving my ability to operate in social situations.  Conversations.  Interpersonal relationships [read: marriage, esp.] - a total paradigm shift!  All in all, the changes I've made to date have produced favorable results - of both intrinsic and extrinsic value.  However, at the end of every day I can't help but feel that I'm still coming up short.  That's because the one person for whom I'm doing all of this - the person who alerted me to the presence of the mountain I referenced in yesterday's entry - needs to see that I can maintain these changes over a period of time.  That's where Tom Petty's immortal words of wisdom keep coming back to haunt me.  Waiting for this is the hardest thing I've ever had to do.  Much harder than making any one (or all) of these changes.  But I will press ever onward... in the key of G.