Guilt at Dawn

July 10, 2008

Another chilly morning — I've woken up before the sun. As I sit here drinking my coffee, I'm really loving the slower-paced life I have begun. I have just been sitting here, though, feeling a bit guilty about some of the things that I have put upon some people. What most hits home about what I have happily left behind — such as mortgages, emails from my BlackBerry, conference calls, and the general to do's around the house — is that those things haven't stopped; I just pushed the responsibilities off to someone else. That just dawned on me today, and the guilt hit me just shortly afterward. All the things I hate the most I pawned off onto someone who loves me enough to do it.

My poor father gets to deal with all my personal banking, including making sure the mortgages get paid and credit card bills are dealt with, as well as anything else that comes up. My unlucky friend and business partner, Oloff, has to deal with all my work finances and business-related communication. Two of my best friends, Kerri and Miles, whom I have a house with in Toronto, get to oversee all my house renovations and make sure all the chores are done around the house, etc., and so on! The funny thing is that my life runs better when they are dealing with all those things.

Anyway, the crew is here. I get to go walking now. Write later!

Comments

[scott quach]

Dave,you need to look at the big picture! Do you realize your ignorance is endangering lions? While you are filming this tastless show of yours, you are never in "real" danger are you? Try being out there with lions ALONE! Now, thats a film worth watching! What you are doing is playing games with lions for t.v. which will and maybe already has gotten lions killed. I know a little about film making, editing, cut scenes, bloopers etc, You only show what you want the people to see.How many times were you almost cat-chow, and they had to shoot the lion? not with the camera? my advise to you, leave the LIONS ALONE!You can't control nature, Who do you think you are? I no longer watch Animal Planet because of your selfish actions and stupidity. From Tacoma Washington ...Scott

[Joe]

This is what I want to do!
Great job and please keep it up
Can't wait for the next entry