The Best Laid Plans

I can't tell you how many times today's topic changed, but suffice to say, it was a lot.

The problem with trying to condense topics down to a blog-post level is that most things in life are complicated; they don't have simple, bite-sized, news clip entries.  They require a lot of thought and a lot of research, and by the time they become a blog post, I will likely have read twenty times more on the subject than I could possibly ever need.

That said, some of today's failed topics were:

The World Economic Forum in Davos 
The 2014 Song of the Year Oscar Nominations
How Corporations Came to Be What They Are Today

The first requires me to read a ton of information--most of it about economics--a great deal of which I am unfamiliar with.  The second required me to talk about songs that, to me, didn't seem to have a larger message or redeeming factor, and rather than offend a lot of other peoples' sensibilities, I decided that I'd all ready talked about the song that I cared the most about in this year's nominees.  The last, again required that I read a great deal of information that dates from Roman times to the present.  And the moment I started looking at it, I realized that in order to understand how corporations have become what they are today, I needed to know a lot more history, law, and economic theory than I do right now.

I even considered continuing on with the cold trend theme this week, considering ideas such as offering a synopsis of the fairy tale story of the Ice Queen, but that, too, is a winding path of information that would take more time than I would have liked to take today in writing this.

Which left me at this moment--where I realize that I have again wasted away a whole day trying to come up with something cogent to say and finding myself lacking in a lot of ways.

So let me just say a few things here about what I realized today:

1. Having a plan is only good if you have the means of accomplishing it.
2. Sometimes the internet is amazing at giving us information, and not so good at finding us the expertise to understand it all.
3. Becoming an expert at something is pretty amazing--and having people you can turn to who are is really important.
4. Most things in this world are complicated.  If you're looking for a simple answer, be prepared to work very hard to find it, and don't believe everything you see and hear.  People like to interpret meanings for just about everything, and their agenda may not be in your best interests.

All that to leave you with the one thing that sums up my search for what I wanted to share with you in my blog today:

Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

That said, ...I have a million articles to read, and probably many more after that.  But one day, there is going to be something amazing that comes from it all; so, I hope you'll stick around and share the journey with me.