Words to live by

When I started this blog this year I thought I would be able to contribute more than I have so far. But this is just a quick update for my friend said something to me today that just kinda of kept my day going. For any who would read this I hope it does the same for you.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about the one's who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands If it changes your life , let it. Nobody said life would be easy the just promised it would be worth it.(Tiffany Hoffman)

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Caution

This is pretty self explanatory. It has been a tragic week with everything that has happened, and is still happening in Haiti. First and foremost my thoughts and prayers goes out to all the victims and families. I would like to say that I am completely overcome with emotion on how the world pulls together when tragedy hits. What I would like to caution you on though is just how fragile our reality is. This is a big illusion of safety. It took mere minutes to turn an entire country to rubble, and to kill in the upwards of 100,000 people. So you should stop to think what would I do if something like that hit? Am I properly prepared? How do I get prepared? Where would I go? Do I have resources to live on? These and other questions fly through my mind when something like this happens. I would like to caution any who would read this post. Just because we have the illusion of safety does not mean we are safe. It only takes a couple of minuets to turn your life upside down. Not that you can properly prepare for these moments that life brings, but I would urge each one of you to just take a second to think about trying to plan. Tsunami, Katrina,and now Haiti anything can happen at any time.

Today starts a new future for me. I'm sure that this is said by people everyday what makes me and today different you ask. Well I guess the biggest change in me would be the fact that I realize only now that you can't sit on your behind and expect to get what you want. You have to actually go out and try to make it happen. Sounds like an easy enough lesson right, well it's taken me nearly ten years to figure that one out. I expect the most out of myself now, and know that I can make it happen. Something happens to you when you have a bit of a mid-life crisis, you sit back and reflect on what is, what is gone, what should have been I hope that I will be able to look back at today as the start of something special for me. There is a quote form the Dark Knight which has stood with me "The night is darkest just before the dawn, but know that the dawn is coming" from here on in it's game time all the time.