Another day in Paradice

I read a line in a book tonight, and I wanted to share it with you, Dear Reader...

"We need to be reminded sometimes that a sunrise lasts but a few minutes.
- But its beauty can burn in our hearts eternally. "

Drizzt Do'Urden

It just got me to thinking about my own life, and how even though I KNOW we get what we focus on, I find myself focusing on more negativity then I should. Today was a pleasant change, however.

We got word that our 2 lost I-pods where found! So that's a plus. The involvement of my son in thier disapearence was less then fortunate, but insted of focusing on the bad, I focused on the good, in that his teacher has reported that he is doing very very well in class, aside from when he randomly yells obscenities or calls people extreemly offencive things... so yea.

The teacher said hes good - when hes not cussing soomone out.

Mmmhmm..

Well, we decided insted of whatever, we went out and ran a few errands, picked up some burgers and headed for the park. We packed along the football, and my RC truck, and headed for the Bike Jumps. Unfortunatly, the battery didnt get fully charged for quite some time, and I wasn't able to catch any air off the bike jump because the stearing was too lose. It would'nt stay straight. I'll have to look into that soon - like tomarrow.
It went really well as a family outing though, and overal was a positve thing. I'm glad I focused on the positive. Our lives are so short, and we spend so much time wishing they where better, yet focused on the negitive things in life. If we simply are more positve-minded, ie look at what is good in your life; we are more apt to create the more positive reality we used to only wish for, before.

Look at it this way. If what you're doing currently is making you how you will be, doesn't it make sence to be as positive as you can be? I'll be the first to admit theres times I'm just NOT a positve person... and that has taken me to where I am. Perhaps I need to try an alternate method to get somewhere else...

If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.

Today I took the path less traveled, and it went well. I will continue, and report back on this omnipresent manifestation of our own device. You know it as "Life".

Just another day in paradise.




-=-

Get down & get FuNkY

Well dear reader, its been a while. Here I sit after another day in paradise [/sarcasm] and I wanted to share a picture with you.







I was thinking a lot about this picture for some strange reason... and I started to wonder. I wondered "Why won't I ever party this hard?" In the sence that I haven't partied anywhere near that hard since my time in another land called Colorado is another story completely. For now, let us look closer at this picture.

The smoke is hiding something, there is more to the picture that we cannot easily see. This correlates to life because even though our lives are so Full of every little thing, every little minute of the day, we still cannot see the whole picture of life.

The bars on the windows. They represent our fear. Our fear of the unknown and the dangerous. They show our lack of ability to trust what we do not fully understand.

The Helmet. This says to me that in the face of the unknown we look out for our own protection first. Our methods may be flawed, but when the $]-[|7 hits the fan, at least we gave it our best shot.

The fat dude in the banana hammock. OK, so I just don't know what to say about this. Perhaps he represents our distorted self perception. Perhaps not... perhaps he is the reason we are not supposed to eat the brown acid, and defiantly not the yellow snow...

The fire. All around us is chaos. Our lives are an infinitesimally minute particle in the world around us; but we have so much control over the chaos that directly affects us. Each and every one of us creates our own reality by the choices we make, a million times each day. Consciously or subconsciously we all create our own reality. If we can make the conscious effort to focus on the positive, we will have more positive things to focus on. Like attracts like. What you put in, you get out. What goes around comes around. Say it anyway you like, just make the effort to put the good out, and then enjoy what you get back. Because the other way isn't nearly as much fun - as I'm sure you either:


A: Already know
B: Think you already know
C: Will find out
D: Both "B" and "C"

Anyway, back to our crazy analysis.

The dude's socks. Deep down theres a bit of dork in all of us. Hide it, deny it, whatever - you know its there. As much of a facade (or extreme lack thereof, sometimes) as we put on, deep down, theres the dorky part. Some run from it, some embrace it. Some roll with it. Some deny it. Some dance their dorky asses off, and some get CrUnK and try to sing karaoke. Do whatever it is you do to the fullest. Live each day as if it's your last, because one day....you will be right.

The choice of footwear. This is representitive of our "base", our stability, our roots and our core. Without strong roots, we will topple easily.



Wow.

K, didn't expect that leval of introspection from a freaky picture. But hey, you play the hand you're delt, and sometimes that means making lemonade out of the lemons.






Meanwhile, back at the batcave...