I have been posting on this board for sometime now. Yes I have been a jerk and yes I understand that my writing skills and thought process probably need work. But in saying this I want to reflect on where I am with all of this and how far I have come in terms of my own search, my new understanding, my goals as it relates.
Nothing has never some easy for me, not by a long shot. I have been dealt the worst hand that anyone reading can probably imagine. For starters, when I was 16 I was convicted of two counts of involuntary manslayer for driving my 1973 mustang Mack I into a tree with two of my best friends in the car. Never spent a second in Jail, as this was 1984. Yes we were all drunk and having a good time and most no one including the parents can point fingers at any one person. We were all in it together. Today if this happened, I can only imagine what would have happen to me, everone today wants to blame other for there issues. Eye for an eye… give me a break… I can go on and on about near fatal experiences that some of you could only imagine. You’re all puppies to my 35 years of existence. How does this relate?
Below is writing from the last article of a woman that many people in this country asked question about life. She was a woman that some grew to hate while others enjoyed reading. She wrote in most all the major new papers, so I know most of you understand whom I am talking about. Yes she was an American woman but she was also an American woman that came from a generation long past, enjoy this as I do. Grasp the feelings, these feeling that most of us are searching for, that we are all wishing for…..
"Success”
He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure woman, the respect of intelligent men, and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his tasks; who has left the world better than he found it, whether by an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has never lacked appreciation of Earth’s beauty or failed to express it; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction.
