Tuesday, November 22, 2005
CLINT UPDATE...
There are no updates...
There have been none for two weeks...since Mike (Clint's friend) called Carter and said that he is recently out of jail...
We are at a point where I fear the story is getting stagnant...
News trickles in so slowly...and great spaces of time pass by between it...
And every road seems to lead to a dead end because we really seem no better off than when we started...
For 379 days...I put all of my energy and all of my heart into this story...I was afraid to divide it anywhere along the way...
But where has that really gotten us? Are we really any closer now to finding Clint than we were the day we found Carter's Auto? The problem is: we don't have anything concrete right now. We need some concrete news...we need to be given some kind of timeframe. But we have nothing now...it could be 5 hours before he returns...it could be 5 days...5 weeks...5 months...5 years...the trouble is we don't know...can I really continue on this way and employ this same search strategy for the next 5 years? Until we have some concrete news, we are completely blind to the timeframe...
Perhaps, we're taking the wrong approach to this problem...for 379 days...I have spent all my energy here...but there is this theory that many times, things find you when you least expect them...when you stop searching for them...
Three synchronous events happened this week that again brought this issue up...
1) Mike the Transvestite--I was talking to him on the phone last Tuesday when he called Carter's while I was there. Mike, again, brought up the alligator in Hidden Valley...the one that was trapped in the lake. And all of these people were trying to catch it. And Mike said: "The thing is about the alligator...it knows people are looking for it. And that's why it's hiding. You watch...it's not going to come out until it thinks people have stopped pursuing it."
2) My conversation with Trishadee on Thursday night: She said: "Maybe you need to start spending your energy in other places. Maybe he will not come back until that happens. Until you stop looking. Things come around when we're not looking."
3) Tippy's "Cosmic Law of Dating"--States that if one were to begin dating the "wrong person," the "right person" would, inevitably come along. Most people, at that point, are too wrapped up in the "wrong person" to notice this and, inadvertantly, let the "right person" slip away. In my case, however, if Tippy's "Cosmic Law of Dating" were to hold true, dating someone other than Clint (the "wrong person") would force Clint to appear ("the right person").
Now, granted, the above three are all simply theory. But 379 days in, employing the same search strategy, where I give this my complete and total focus...has gotten us absolutely nowhere...
Could it really hurt to employ a different tactic...at least just to try it out for a period of time???
And that is where we are...we are now going to employ a different strategy where I am going to divide my attention...we're not giving up...we're still in contact with Carter daily...we're just simply looking at this from a new perspective...
It has already been done...it has begun...
There are no updates...
There have been none for two weeks...since Mike (Clint's friend) called Carter and said that he is recently out of jail...
We are at a point where I fear the story is getting stagnant...
News trickles in so slowly...and great spaces of time pass by between it...
And every road seems to lead to a dead end because we really seem no better off than when we started...
For 379 days...I put all of my energy and all of my heart into this story...I was afraid to divide it anywhere along the way...
But where has that really gotten us? Are we really any closer now to finding Clint than we were the day we found Carter's Auto? The problem is: we don't have anything concrete right now. We need some concrete news...we need to be given some kind of timeframe. But we have nothing now...it could be 5 hours before he returns...it could be 5 days...5 weeks...5 months...5 years...the trouble is we don't know...can I really continue on this way and employ this same search strategy for the next 5 years? Until we have some concrete news, we are completely blind to the timeframe...
Perhaps, we're taking the wrong approach to this problem...for 379 days...I have spent all my energy here...but there is this theory that many times, things find you when you least expect them...when you stop searching for them...
Three synchronous events happened this week that again brought this issue up...
1) Mike the Transvestite--I was talking to him on the phone last Tuesday when he called Carter's while I was there. Mike, again, brought up the alligator in Hidden Valley...the one that was trapped in the lake. And all of these people were trying to catch it. And Mike said: "The thing is about the alligator...it knows people are looking for it. And that's why it's hiding. You watch...it's not going to come out until it thinks people have stopped pursuing it."
2) My conversation with Trishadee on Thursday night: She said: "Maybe you need to start spending your energy in other places. Maybe he will not come back until that happens. Until you stop looking. Things come around when we're not looking."
3) Tippy's "Cosmic Law of Dating"--States that if one were to begin dating the "wrong person," the "right person" would, inevitably come along. Most people, at that point, are too wrapped up in the "wrong person" to notice this and, inadvertantly, let the "right person" slip away. In my case, however, if Tippy's "Cosmic Law of Dating" were to hold true, dating someone other than Clint (the "wrong person") would force Clint to appear ("the right person").
Now, granted, the above three are all simply theory. But 379 days in, employing the same search strategy, where I give this my complete and total focus...has gotten us absolutely nowhere...
Could it really hurt to employ a different tactic...at least just to try it out for a period of time???
And that is where we are...we are now going to employ a different strategy where I am going to divide my attention...we're not giving up...we're still in contact with Carter daily...we're just simply looking at this from a new perspective...
It has already been done...it has begun...
Comments:
I think all three of them have points. Maybe it is time to focus on something else for a while. Not forget about Clint just not put all your efforts into it. Spend sometime concentrating on yourself and your new band. Most things are cyclical, I'm sure he'll come back around soon.
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