It was super YUMMY!

I'm forcing myself to look away from the screen as I write this.

That's how we improve ourselves, right? By forcing ourselves to do things that we can't do well in ways that we are not accustomed to doing them? For some it might be looking away from the keyboard during typing, but I've all but mastered native typing, so I'm now attempting to pen an article while looking off into the horizon.

I'm also listening to the new Dream Theater album while I type. It's called The Astonishing, which would come off as pretentious if it were any other band. But when Dream Theater titles something like that I somehow expect that it will astonish me, and so far it is. They do have my favorite drummer in the known universe, Mike Mangini on drums now after all.

So, the image.

I searched for "The greatest thing that has ever happened" with a fixed size of 240px like always and got a pretty boring selection. The image I selected is also pretty boring at face value. A quote by Oprah because of course it is...
Somehow I always gravitate towards these quote images. Someone out there thought the words to be so profound that they took the time to create an image from them. All things in context, right? So someone read this quote and was inspired. They shared it for the benefit of others, and others probably found momentary inspiration, and THAT is where my thought process begins.

What's interesting is that in it's original form, it might have worked. Oprah being Oprah and all, she might have spoken these words to encourage someone who is in the middle of a huge battle. Maybe it was a cancer patient going into surgery, or a deaf pop singer (Again, Oprah) getting ready to go on stage for the first time. But, Oprah definitely wasn't speaking to most people who will read this quote on the internet.

Their entire lives have not been spent preparing for the moment after they read this quote in their Facebook feed before moving on to pictures of 97 our of 1,243 of their closest "Friends" new babies pictures, or a picture of a plate of food that some distracted husband or wife took on their "date" while the spouse stared at their own phone and liked the picture of the meal and commented - "I had a great time tonight babe! Dinner was sooooo YUMMY!". That's what people do on "dates" now, right?

"Every single thing that has ever happened in your life" did not prepare you for the moment you spent reading this post after reading the text on the image.

Speaking of food, Check out the excellent brisket the other day in the Oklahoma City airport at a barbecue place called Salt Lick.

Pictured - Good Brisket

It was super yummy!