I agree pretty much with what you say. I guess my challenge is more to the ’sideline critic’ than the ’sideliner waiting for the right opportunity’. We all go through phases where we’re in that third place. That’s normal I think. The challenge is to make sure we don’t get stuck there and that we don’t own that place and use it as an excuse for apathy.

I was just reminding myself this morning that integrity is also about how my character, my personality, my spiritual gifts, and my dreams come together, to be lived into wherever I am and whatever I am doing. Of course, the “outside life” plays on the “inside”, but I want the “inside” to take the crucial lead - hence needing to remind myself.

But then as I started writing my reaction, and deleting it and rewriting it, and now find myself on draft #3, I realized that if I am in fact moving, if I am in fact fighting for something and fighting against something else, that I have, in essence, created a new party (or tribe). Now that tribe might prove to be a sideline kind of tribe or it may actually mobilize and make a difference. Support will gather behind it, and what do you know… we are back to two kinds of people.

I do think there still needs to be a third kind of person though. Let’s call them the dormant partisan. They will either create their own Tribe when the time is right or they will join the right Tribe when they discover it. They may appear to be partisan or sideline at the moment, but everything could change with the right catalyst.

Seven days til lift off for you!! Excited? Nervous? Both?!

I will say though that the best running version of Window’s I’ve ever had is…you guessed it, on my Mac! Works a treat and never crashes!

I understand Windows criticism but MAC OS X is not the only alternative to Windows.

And, Karolis, it’s ok. I can tell you’re just jealous!