Do Not Loop Me In

 

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The older I get, the more time I spend trying to stay out of loops.

There was a time that I wanted to be in the loop. I fought for it.  I hung onto the edges of conversations, sought out meetings, researched and read.  All to find some reason to be in the loop.

But loops are not what one thinks that they are, at least most of the time.

Once in the loop, one becomes committed to the loop.    One becomes responsible for parts of the loop.  Not paying attention to the loop becomes not just a dry exercise of not doing something, but a sincere questioning of one's commitment level to much of anything - and the loop, of course.

And - honestly - the loop is usually not nearly as interesting as one thought; over the years the illusions of the "grand things" that occur in loops is replaced by the knowledge that most loops are, in fact, loops.  They lead nowhere.

So please - oh please - do not loop me in.  I have a great many other actual important things to attend to.