Monday, September 12, 2005

Fodder

I figured I'd use this entry to post some pretty good life lessons I learned as well as us useless fodder about myself. Really I just wanted to keep this thing updated while I work on a piece that I am having the damnest time finishing. So here is my way of wasting the next 2 minutes of you time. Enjoy!
Personal Goal-Grow from every life experiance
Life's Goal-To never regret any move I make in life
Life`s Motto-"Where ever I am and whatever I am doing at any given moment; God has placed me and I shall rejoice" (Keeps me from questioning my fate)
Ten most recent life lessons
1. Perfection is a goal-it's rarely obtained but try anyway.
2. One person's love and good intentions may appear as control to another.
3. Keeping your mouth shut cause you have nothing nice to say isn't always the best policy.
4. A true friend can dislike everything you are saying and doing, but will still have your back nonetheless.
5. Love, however elusive, is real. (took me a long time to believe that one)
6. Being alone with one's thoughts is like a lethal injection of reality.
7. Helping with everyone else's problems may create one of your own--insanity.
8. A person becomes or is what he or she wants to be only when he or she wants to become it.
9. Sacrafice only what you can afford to be without.
10. A person's business-no matter how much they make it yours-is still that persons business.
People who I have learned from
My Mother-The importance of strength, commitment, loyalty and faith.
My Daddy-The importance of fragility, listening, understanding, tenacity and versality.
My Grandparents-How to make love last(58 years ya`ll)
My girlfriend Kim-How to go through hell and still believe in heaven
Thanks for wasting some time with me and I promise, I will have something worthwhile soon.

Friday, September 02, 2005

Katrina.

This country is now experiencing what is probably the worst disaster in its history. I have been watching the coverage so much that I had to force myself to monitor my intake. It was starting to effect my spirit. I have never in my life felt this much compassion for anyone. My heart literally breaks everytime I hear someone's story. I dont know how many times in the past 5 days I have been listening to the radio or watching T.V. only to realize that I am openly weeping. Something I am not very big on. I am crying for people who I have never laid eyes on, yet somehow have a piece of my soul with them. New Orleans has caused a slew of emotions to flow through me. Everything from helplessness to sorrow to sadness to anxiety to guilt.
So I do what I do when ever I just dont understand life. I pray and give thanks.