Me & The New Year
MrDon
Registrant
I've been trying to think about this and how to view the entire new year thing. This year it is very tough in my mind because well it just seems to insignificant to me in regards to the date it portrays. For those that don't know, I lost my mom on Jan 4, 2002 to a tragic car accident.
I know I've come a long ways through 2002 and through a lot of things so I can only hope that 2003 will be a little more kind and gentle to me.
Of course as I look forward, I know that in March I will get to experience Yanni live which I have been wanting to do for a very long time.
In August, I will be done with my school and will then be working towards passing the exam for my license to become a licensed massage therapist.
I also will continue this year down the road of getting my music out to the world and who knows there might just be more of the music that comes out in 2003.
I hope to find the money and the time this next year so that Jeff and I can do a R&R trip somewhere. Usually I either can find the money to do it and not the time, or the time and not the money. But I do miss taking a road trip every now and then.
As far as the world goes. It is a much different place. People are so wrapped up into the politics of greed and power and thinking they are right and at the same time calling this "governement" or "freedom" among other things. I truly wish people would get off their butts in this country and truly make a differance, not just spout their thoughts and opinions and hatred for others. Maybe in 2003, people will wake up before it is too late and begin to view their neighbors through their hearts.
Maybe in 2003, the world will begin to place the proper respect, love and admiration for our children which will do more to bring peace and harmony through out the world than any other single act. As a result of this, I hope that child abusers will have no place to hide and that any church or organization or group or government who harbors these individuals will become a place that is shunned. But peace and love and understanding in the world for others has to start with our children. For if we don't teach the children to love one another and respect one another, how can we expect them to grow up in this world doing just that.
My hope is that this world becomes more accepting of those who are different. For those who have taken different paths, they shouldn't be treated as "something is wrong with them" or "they are wrong". They should be accepted into society just as anyone else is. It gets old when friends who say they accept your lifestyle, than shrug you off and treat you as a disease while professing they fully accept everyone and anything. It gets old when you have to be careful of what you say and how you go about things for fear of being harrassed, picked on, ridculed and harmed. My hope is that the world will begin to accept all walks of people regardless of the lifestyle choice they make.
My hope is that instead of everyone in the world seeing the differances of each person they meet, will ask the question, "what is it that I need to learn from that person". And in the end, they will celebrate the learning and the commonalities they share while embracing the differances. For each of us has so much to offer not only to ourselves, but to the whole world and if we focus our time and energy on that, the course of the world will change forever.
I've faced a lot in my life from the abuse of many years ago to the paralysis and near loss of my life to healing and dealing with the loss of my mom. My life is in the process of taking a different path and where the path will take me, I do not know at this point. My hope for myself is that I will continue to discard the "blinders" when I notice they are there so that I can see all that lies around me and partake fully in all that the universe has to offer.
And with that, 2003 is off and running....
Don
I know I've come a long ways through 2002 and through a lot of things so I can only hope that 2003 will be a little more kind and gentle to me.
Of course as I look forward, I know that in March I will get to experience Yanni live which I have been wanting to do for a very long time.
In August, I will be done with my school and will then be working towards passing the exam for my license to become a licensed massage therapist.
I also will continue this year down the road of getting my music out to the world and who knows there might just be more of the music that comes out in 2003.
I hope to find the money and the time this next year so that Jeff and I can do a R&R trip somewhere. Usually I either can find the money to do it and not the time, or the time and not the money. But I do miss taking a road trip every now and then.
As far as the world goes. It is a much different place. People are so wrapped up into the politics of greed and power and thinking they are right and at the same time calling this "governement" or "freedom" among other things. I truly wish people would get off their butts in this country and truly make a differance, not just spout their thoughts and opinions and hatred for others. Maybe in 2003, people will wake up before it is too late and begin to view their neighbors through their hearts.
Maybe in 2003, the world will begin to place the proper respect, love and admiration for our children which will do more to bring peace and harmony through out the world than any other single act. As a result of this, I hope that child abusers will have no place to hide and that any church or organization or group or government who harbors these individuals will become a place that is shunned. But peace and love and understanding in the world for others has to start with our children. For if we don't teach the children to love one another and respect one another, how can we expect them to grow up in this world doing just that.
My hope is that this world becomes more accepting of those who are different. For those who have taken different paths, they shouldn't be treated as "something is wrong with them" or "they are wrong". They should be accepted into society just as anyone else is. It gets old when friends who say they accept your lifestyle, than shrug you off and treat you as a disease while professing they fully accept everyone and anything. It gets old when you have to be careful of what you say and how you go about things for fear of being harrassed, picked on, ridculed and harmed. My hope is that the world will begin to accept all walks of people regardless of the lifestyle choice they make.
My hope is that instead of everyone in the world seeing the differances of each person they meet, will ask the question, "what is it that I need to learn from that person". And in the end, they will celebrate the learning and the commonalities they share while embracing the differances. For each of us has so much to offer not only to ourselves, but to the whole world and if we focus our time and energy on that, the course of the world will change forever.
I've faced a lot in my life from the abuse of many years ago to the paralysis and near loss of my life to healing and dealing with the loss of my mom. My life is in the process of taking a different path and where the path will take me, I do not know at this point. My hope for myself is that I will continue to discard the "blinders" when I notice they are there so that I can see all that lies around me and partake fully in all that the universe has to offer.
And with that, 2003 is off and running....
Don