A Summer Gone By

Work has kept me very busy, and I've been traveling to a client site repeatedly for the past month. The hours I've worked in the past month are easily double what I would have worked during an ordinary month. As you can imagine, this has left me little time for ordinary chores, being with my family, taking care of my garden, let along blogging. During a brief respite during a stay on a client site, I'm posting this. As I write, as song from my late teens plays on my computer. Times like these make me wonder what the purpose of life is. More specifically it makes me wonder what the purpose of my life is and what exactly I want from it. The more I think about it, the clearer it becomes that what I most dearly want is to love and to be loved. There are times when I do feel that, even if only in fleeting moments. Traveling on business, while a necessary evil right now so that I can support myself and my family, certainly makes me acutely aware how far away I am from those whom I love, and who love me. A summer has gone by that I can't get back, autumn is coming as the seasons march on. I will change my circumstances so that I will not lose another summer, or any other season, away on business. The price is too high for the time lost is too precious.