I had been hemming and hawing about a new post for the last couple days. Then Joshua at The Minimalists put a link to my site in his newest essay. That helped get me in gear so that new readers wouldn’t think Simple Black Coffee is an abandoned website.
I apparently took a break from blogging during the entire month of July. I say apparently because it was not a planned absence from the interwebs. I had no idea I was taking a break. I published my last post sometime near the end of June and here we are at the first part of August. I wasn’t tuned into twitter or facebook that much either and even had a couple people contact me through twitter to make sure I was okay. That was very nice and I appreciate that I was missed, Thanks. So, I’m sorry about that, I guess sometimes life happens and blogging doesn’t.
But we all have flaws don’t we. Sometimes we like to call them weaknesses instead. A weakness can perhaps be improved while a flaw is permanent? One of my flaws is procrastination and another is failure to get started on something. I’m not sure if they are the same or not, I feel they are different. I have a HUGE project that I’ve been avoiding because I was given 18 months to do it. That was almost 12 months ago. It may not be a HUGE project after all but I don’t know yet because I haven’t begun working on it. That’s my failure to get started. I think procrastination comes along after I start something and then stop because I then know it’s difficult and I want to avoid it.
Besides personal flaws, there are flaws that exist in things as well.
I had my huge garage sale back in the spring and since then have felt much better. Stuff has been gone and I truly feel more like a minimalist than I ever did before. I have no regrets. There were a few things left after the garage sale that, instead of donating, I opted to sell on Craigslist instead. One item was an inflatable rubber kayak.
I got started on my Craigslist listing by taking great pictures showing all sides of the kayak. I wrote a very full description and I even threw in a weblink to the manufacturer’s website so they could see what a new kayak costs. The only thing I didn’t do was disclose that I had repaired 2 holes. At that time I didn’t think it mattered, I wasn’t trying to hide anything.
Little did I know.
I received a few emails right off the bat and the first thing they asked was whether there were holes. *sigh* I wrote each of them back with the truth that there had been 2 holes. I had done a great job repairing the holes. I followed the manufacturer’s instructions and had used the repair kit that came with the boat. Now, if the company includes a repair kit when you purchase a boat doesn’t it mean that they anticipate holes can occur in a rubber kayak and that upon repair the boat will still float and function as it should? This was not some $10 Walmart model kayak. It’s high grade rubber, constructed well and came from a reputable boat manufacturer.
Guess what, despite dropping the price and subsequently including a detailed description on Craigslist about the holes and how I repaired them I still have the damn kayak.
I hope that people are less judgemental about persons with flaws than they are about things with flaws. Both can still meet your expectations.
