Lost in a flow of unfamiliar folks. Found in an instant by you.
Thinking and resigned to my fate, there is a waking up that leads me here.
I don’t know where I’ve been for so long, now I am sure it’s time to move on.
Moving on into the abyss of the dark, scary, exciting and inevitable.
not possible to know if circumstances will improve, but moving forward is the only thing to do. It is then you will find the message with only your name, left just for you.
The loneliness of life can at times totally swallow your soul, if you are not careful, there will be only a weak surface joy in life. Digging deeper with all you have will reveal the truth.
Try not to fear this change, and fight the instincts to run for safety, move boldly.
Strength of nerve will bring understanding so move boldly without hesitation.
There is no limit on your path, your potential is infinite, unless you choose to struggle.
All barriers before you fall, loneliness leaves, contentment grows, as it should.
When your beliefs are working with our dreams, this is a time in your life when …..
There are a lot of people who look at a book and make a judgement based on the cover and fail to even open the pages and read even a little of the story that is contained inside. That is something that I try to avoid doing all the time and I appreciate it when it is done for me.
The insight about me that is offered here is to let you know what my guilty pleasures in life are. These are defined as interests and likes that you have that may be embarrassing for others to know about because of their low brow or uncultured appeal. Everyone has these interests, here are my top guilty pleasures in life.
The Big Bang Theory
There is a little Sheldon in all of us!
This is a show that I just recently became infatuated with. It is the tale of four nerds and their good-looking female neighbor. Pretty basic plot lines, but I seem to enjoy watching Sheldon Cooper struggle through life. From his fear of birds to being unable to understand sarcasm. If this is on and I have a moment I will watch it. I can’t stop myself.
The Music of Taylor Swift
I would not mention this anywhere else, but for some reason the music of Taylor Swift that is about nothing I can relate to, I really like. It has been going on for years and I have secretly liked songs as old as Tim McGraw and as new as We’re Never Ever Getting Back Together. Her act of continually getting dumped is going to have to end eventually. If it never does, that will be fine with me.
Red Sox Baseball
This is not a shock to anyone who knows me but I love the Red Sox. I watch a part of most games and follow the side stories that the team provides. Even though I have never played Major League Baseball I am like many people I think that I know what is best for the team. I have always been infatuated with the statistics of certain players and am not ashamed to say there were a few tears when they won it all in 2004.
Duck Dynasty
“Everybody, happy, happy.”
Another show that I happened to accidentally see and now I watch them quite often. There is something interesting about watching Grandpa Phil try to kill beavers and talk about the old times being , “Everybody, happy, happy!” I was born and raised in Maine so there is a bit of red neck in me that I can’t escape from. This show touches this. A lot of the situations are clearly created just for television but that is OK, it entertains anyway.
Country Music
Up until I turned 39 I believed that all country music was really a joke. I was one of those that laughed about playing a country song backward, you get your wife, your dog and your truck back. Then it all suddenly changed as I was listening to a song once and thinking, “Wow, that makes a lot of sense.”
From that day on I was hooked, and even though I enjoy all types of music, country music is high on my list. Kenny Chesney, Dirks Bentley, Tim McGraw, you name it and if they have a good song I probably like it. I think my rural heritage has a lot to do with this, but there is something about a country girl that is indescribably beautiful!
Romantic Comedies
I hate to admit this but the more of them I see the more I think I am a hopeless romantic. Recently a fellow blogger had been reviewing her favorite romantic comedies which got me to watch a few. The more I watched the more I liked them. Not all of them but most of them. I did have someone in my past who liked those types of movies and I would watch them with her. If I am by myself and Sweet Home Alabama is on I can’t help but watch it. There are a thousand others but lets suffice it to say this is a guilty pleasure of mine. Don’t tell anyone!!
Learning Stuff
This is one thing that makes me kind of a super nerd because I find learning new things fascinating. Especially in the realm of psychology, human behavior, quantum physics, string theory or any science what so ever. This is not only in substance but I like learning how to do new things as well, particularly in the field of technology.
I am old enough to remember life before there was an internet and having access for the first time and asking,”What do you do with it.” Even though no one gave a satisfactory answer back in 1996, we figured it out. I am not one of those who sees technology as something you fear but I see it as something new to master. I enjoy learning how to do things from working on new platforms to building websites. Learning stuff is fun!
Reading and Writing are a Good Time
Along with the learning new stuff revelation is my love of reading and writing. It probably wouldn’t come as a shock to anyone who reads this blog, but to people who just know me from any endeavor in my life, it would be a shock. Reading to me is not done to read a story or something like that, it is done to teach me something. Expose me to a new idea. I can’t remember that last book I read for “fun”, it seems I just don’t have time.
Writing is an ongoing process for me, as I expand my comfort with words and let the emotions and thoughts I have in me, flow freely without a filter. That has been the biggest challenge of writing for me. The fact that I have a biggest challenge of writing would surprise many of my “friends” from the past.
I am sure that I can come up with about fifty-five more but I am out of time for this writing experience. So that will have to do. I am sure that I am not the only one who has embarrassing interests.
Poetry is not something that I have never written much of. One of the great blogs I read, shared a sonnet on Thursday. I am taking the opportunity to write one myself, because I never have and it should be a unique experience. It was an interesting : first I didn’t realize how much I enjoyed rhyming. Secondly I apparently have some unresolved issues inside. I think they are resolving.
I Remember You
by Jonathan Hilton
Oh, yes I remember you,
As a deep dark mystery I sought to reveal.
I never found or discovered, what was due,
The truth about you, hurts too much to feel.
We used to talk and be together every day,
Laughing and sharing each special time.
Now you have left, and moved along your way,
The emptiness inside alone is mine
Where is the justice? Where is the Peace?
I destroy all the selfish evidence of us.
There is a thought that this will bring a release,
Nothing worked, nothings fixed, It wasn’t worth the fuss.
The dusty, empty room is inside of me,
It is as vast and as deep as the mightiest Sea.
So what did you think of my first poem? I know, but it is the first try.
Here are a couple I remember you songs to help set the mood.
Skid Row: I Remember You
Someone Like You
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When you look at the history of the United States, there are many of our Presidents that we easily bring to mind, Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, Roosevelt, Kennedy, etc. There are many that you don’t know anything about off hand, and in most cases that is a good thing. In the case of John Adams it seems that history has done a great disservice to this great American Patriot who should be considered more for Mt. Rushmore than others, but he is, by many, almost forgotten. John Adams was the second president of the United States, he was one of the original members of the Continental Congress and one of those responsible for the writing and acceptance of the Declaration of Independence.
What intrigues me about this man is that he clearly continued to evolve long after his time as a public servant ran out. Many of his thoughts and feelings which have been preserved, show a man that has not only a grasp of what the world is about, but what a person needs to do to live a satisfied life while you are in it.
Clearly there are regrets that he has from his past. Time spent away from his family, being too narrow minded and focusing on trivial things. Worrying about what others thought of him, and how history would treat him, worried him quite a bit. This is a fault all too common with all of us, but a colossal waste of time.
*Elected The Second President of the United States
*First President to Live in the White House In Washington, D.C.
*John Adams represented Boston in the Colonial Legislature. He led the resistance against British policies in America. When the First Continental Congress was organized in 1774, Adams served on it representing Massachusetts, and was one of the first to suggest independence as a course of action. Adams served in the Second Continental Congress as wee and was a key figure in forming the Continental Army and played an important role in adopting the Declaration of Independence, and was one of the patriots who signed the document.
Quotes of John Adams:
“Happiness, whether in despotism or democracy, whether in slavery or liberty, can never be found without virtue”
“Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write.”
“Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart”
“Fear is the foundation of most governments.”
“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of the facts and evidence”
“Democracy… while it lasts is more bloody than either [aristocracy or monarchy]. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide.”
“The people have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefensible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge – I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers”
“This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it”
“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
“Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.”
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
“If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind, whom should we serve?”
“The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affections of the people, was the real American Revolution.”
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence”
“That the desires of the majority of the people are often for injustice and inhumanity against the minority, is demonstrated by every page of the history of the whole world”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
“The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.”
“A democracy is as really a republic as on oak a tree, or a temple a building”
“There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.”
“Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.”
“It is wrong to admit into the Constitution the idea that there can be property in man”
“Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.”
“There is no such thing as human wisdom; all is the providence of God”
“Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics”
“The happiness of society is the end of government.”
“The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people’s hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice”
“Arms in the hands of citizens may be used at individual discretion… in private self-defense.”
“I cannot conceive such a Being could make such a Species as the human, merely to live and die on this earth”
“Politics are the divine science, after all”
“The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation”
“The jaws of power are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing”
“Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.”
“I am persuaded there is among the mass of our people a fund of wisdom, integrity, and humanity which will preserve their happiness in a tolerable measure”
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