Hard to believe it’s Monday again, it’s almost April, wow. Before you can blink, the kids will be out of school, we’ll be celebrating Memorial Day and the 4th of July and then thinking about fall. What’s my point here? The point is to live each and every day to the fullest. You can’t get time back. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
Maybe we’re going through one of those mid life crisis moments but since we’ve been dealing with the misses neck, we keep thinking “there has to be more”. Now I don’t mean more to our daily life, I just mean more to how we live our life. Let’s take a step back and look at what’s really important. Let’s start with faith, family and health. These are probably the three most important issues in anyone’s life. After that, then we can think about work, and yes money. Sure you have to work and have a job or a career to survive. You also have to have money to survive but being healthy and happy each day and raising your kids to be strong, well balanced adults prepared for life has to be our priority. If you’re not healthy, all the money in the World doesn’t matter.
Are we providing the best environment for our kids to grow up? Right now, we think the answer is yes. Could we play more with them, read more to them, sure but overall we’re lucky as we have 2 kind, considerate, polite, and well adjusted boys that enjoy life. Our main concern is for their future because of where society is headed. Will it be safe for them to live in a city in 20 years? Will there be jobs for them no matter how educated they are? What kind of shape will our country be in? Will they have the same freedom in all aspects of their lives that we did growing up? I don’t know. If you look at their generation, for the first time in history, we don’t enjoy the same standard of living, job opportunities or freedom that our parents did. Think about it, the World is an ever changing place and right now there’s a big debate as to whether or not it’s changing or evolving for the better. All we can do is try to give them the best possible foundation for the future.
I saw a cartoon in the Wall Street Journal the other day. I don’t know if you saw the video that went viral about Joseph Kony, the brutal dictator in central Africa that’s been killing and raping people for over 20 years and enslaving their children to fight in his Lords Army. (funny how people pick names that sound so righteous for bad things) In many cases, he enslaves the kids and then makes them kill their parents to show their loyalty to him. Anyhow the video is finally bringing this monster to the World’s attention and the cartoon shows a bunch of children in Africa saying “where have you been for 20 years?”, and then you see a couple watching Dancing With the Stars with the husband asking for more popcorn. If you think about it, that pretty much sums it up. We all sit in our homes, watching useless crap on tv, ignoring everything going on around us. If there’s something bad going on down the street or across the World, we just block it out or ignore it. If it doesn’t happen to or concern us, we won’t and don’t do anything about it. Even George Clooney goes to Sudan and gets arrested to try to help get some attention for the kids getting killed daily in that country. What are you doing? Did you do anything recently to help make the World or mankind better? Or are you just living in your little box, isolated from the problems out there, watching tv. We all are guilty of doing basically just that, ignoring the big problems of the World and just taking care of ourselves, after all, that’s hard enough these days. But what if we all just dedicated 30 minutes a week to do something to try to help our World. What kind of difference could 300 million people make with just a little effort? Probably a lot. The trick is to get everyone to stop thinking 100% only about themselves. I sure hope something brings us all together before it’s too late.
Ok, sorry for my morning rant. We’re just at one of those points in life where we’re thinking, as I said, there has to be more. Am I going to spend the next 30 years living in the same house, fighting to pay the bills, just getting by? I don’t think so, I just can’t see it. I look around the neighborhood and see the elderly people who live here and  wonder if they planned on their lives turning out like this or did it just happen. Maybe some of you older than us could chime in, let us know.
Time to run, hope everyone has a great week and enjoys each and every day. I like the story of the 93 year old owner of the Buffalo Bills football team who spent $100 million dollars signing a defensive lineman to a contract the other day. When people asked him why he spent so much money, he said “I can’t take it with me”. It sure would be nice if we get Peyton Manning but I think he’ll probably go to San Francisco, also for a reported $100 million, wow, where are our priorities?
God Bless