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Honesty


Honesty is the best policy. How many times have you heard that phrase? I’m sure you have all heard it one time or another, but how many people really use it in everyday life?

Take a minute to think about it. I know sometimes we think that it is necessary to lie to one another. When someone asks, “Does this dress make me look fat?” We never tell the truth, when in fact it’s the fat that makes us look fat.

There are some circumstances that make it easy to lie, but why do we do it. It’s not to make the recipient of the comment feel better. It’s to make our selves feel better. We avoid the truth because it is easier for people to sugar coat remarks to avoid conflict or alienation.

We lie to protect ourselves from the truth, from embarrassment. We as human beings have a hard time facing the truth about almost everything. We fear telling the truth because we don’t actually want to hear it ourselves. Isn’t that a funny thing?

If more people would be honest, then life could be real. Reality would be a truth and not just another fantasyland where all is calm and bright. What is the point of asking any question if the truth is nowhere to be found in the answer.

Truth doesn’t have to be brutally honest. It can just be honest enough to direct people on the path to realism. So next time someone asks you, “Do I look fat in this dress?” simply tell them that the color or style isn’t exactly right for them and suggest that they continue to look for something a bit more their style. Or you can simply say, “ I don’t think you should have desert tonight.”

Remember this, if you are going to lie to someone, don’t expect the truth in return you’ll never get it. But then again most people just don’t get it anyway. Realism that is!

 

 

 

 

 

Another Day, another Dollar

Another day another dollar, or so they say. Let me ask you something, are you working for a living, wondering how you ended up at this precise time and place? Are you doing what you love, does your heart drive you to be all you can be or are you the employee who spews excuses with a milk maid mentality who leads the pack in vitamin D? You figure why should I care about the company that I work for they don’t pay me enough, the hours stink, I hate the commute, I haven’t advanced since I’ve been here and they don’t give me any respectable responsibilities.

What makes you think that you deserve any of those things. You smug lazy consumer. Take a few steps back for a second and without defense take a truly deep look inside yourself. Please, tell me what you see…


Okay, now I’ll tell you what I see. I see an employee who only cares about themselves and not enough about the company they work for. Lets look at the facts for a moment, twenty four hours make up each day twenty four sixty second intervals in which you have the opportunity to live life to your fullest potential. Do you use your time wisely? At least seven yours a day are spent sleeping. Grooming usually takes about an hour. There are about two hours spent traveling to and from work each day. An average workday lasts about eight hours. Oh, the short bathroom breaks throughout the day add up to about an hour, which leaves five hours for you to spend running errands, paying bills, watching the news and spending quality time with your family each day.

I understand how all of these daily activities are inevitable and my work ethic definitely is not a questionable one, so what is your problem. I get up every morning and go to work I spend eight hours solving problems, helping others, and organizing things and take pride in all of it. If I do not put out a one hundred percent effort the domino effect of destruction is inevitable. A Company is a team and if one member of that team doesn’t pull their weight the entire company feels it, one way or another. People who complain when things are not handed to them on a silver platter have no right taking away from the hard working man who respects and appreciates what a hard day’s labor is. Weather you’re a white-collar worker or a blue-collar patriot, self respect and pride is all that matters. Qualities I find lacking in most companies employees are honor, respect and the ability to be a good citizen.

One cannot expect they are worthy of a salary increase if they don’t put your best foot forward, so get with the program.

 

 

 

 

The Holiday Season


The holiday season is a time for family and friends to unite for a week or two of happy festivities. Many people find the holidays to be the most depressing and lonely time of the year.

Numerous individuals have not had the experience of enjoying a glass of eggnog while toasting to their many accomplishments. If having a large family, or a vast gathering of friends is what a person needs to celebrate, and truly have a good holiday experience I find it hard to believe that anyone actually has fun at Christmas time.

Most people eat their meals all alone on a daily basis. The majority of society has experienced that you may possibly be completely alone in a room full of people.

A number of relatives make it a point to make life miserable for everyone else, especially around the holidays. Understanding why it is so difficult for people to do nice things at Christmas is one of life’s little mysteries.

It really does not take a great deal to make up for all the torture and neglect they bestow throughout the year. Just picking up the phone or sending a card can make all the difference in the world.

Sitting around thinking of ways to avoid doing things for or talking to the people you can’t be bothered with, takes up more energy then saying or doing something nice for those same people.

Christmas is not just about religion. It is more of goodwill toward man, kind of thing. Taking the time to think about all of the things that we normally take for granted, such as, being able to walk out to the mailbox in the rain instead of bitching about having too, or complaining about how much you hate standing in the long holiday lines at the mall.

There are people who don’t have the money to purchase food for their families, what about them? So no matter haw bad you think you have it just remember there are plenty of people who have it much worse then you do.

So around the Holiday Season try to find something to be grateful for and smile a little easier. I am sure that you will fall fast asleep with a clear conscience and a happy heart.

 

 

 

Sexual Fantasies


I do not have much of a desire for sexual fantasies. For the most part, I have to say this. Sexual fantasies are for couch potatoes and I do not think much of them.

My only true fantasies are things like beautiful landscaping around my property, a new deck in the back with a sliding glass door to my bedroom. I dream of having a crows nest on the roof big enough for about four people and a telescope. I dream of getting my Mopar restoration completed and the feel of the force of a 383 engine pushing me back in my seat. These are all things worthy of masturbation.

Sick isn't it? I agree, but I only speak the truth. Which for the most part is usually shocking and half the time my words have had the ability to drop a few jaws. Having this quality personality usually gets me into trouble. You see, people usually get the wrong impression of me when they read my articles. I write from my heart, a friend told me that, and it is true, so when you are reading my work try to feel the meaning of the words not judge me the writer. I just tell it like it is.

I love this world and try to make every day special. I wake up with a smile and check out the weather. Rain or shine warm or cool the smile never dies. I fill my day with comfortable conversations and curious actions. Making the best of the worst situations and being helpful until the day is through.

People always ask me, “Are you always this happy, don’t you ever frown?” The answer is always the same, “Yes!” You will rarely see me frown. I love life and enjoy observing every action in my environment. I have found that smiling is contagious if you smile at someone you usually receive one in return. Now I ask you, doesn’t it make sense?

 

 

 

Keeping The Faith

I’m not a typically religious person, well that’s not entirely true. The only thing that is different between me and a fanatic is that I do not pray in a church and I don’t try to get other people to believe the things that I believe in.

I believe in God and Jesus Christ and I pry to them always and forever, but I do not believe that I have to attend a church to be a member of the club. I’m always worried about being a good person, and when I feel I’ve been bad I have a hard time getting to sleep at night.

I have a hard time laying my head on the pillow when I don’t answer the door for certain religious types who try to spread they joy of their faith. I know, I know, why I even worry about those things anyway. Well I have a great respect for anyone who believes so much in something, to go door to door on either the hottest or extremely coldest day of the year, that’s jut me. To believe in something other that you with that much passion is a miracle to me.

I always thought that believing in me is better than believing in someone or something to make things happen in my life. I have always had to do everything for myself, since I was a young child, it was all on me. Though I believe in the father son and holy ghost, I know that they are not the key to getting what I need and want, I know that the faith that I have in God and heaven provides me with the strength that I need to succeed in life and it assures me that there will always be a place for me and everyone else some day in heaven.

Now don’t get me wrong, I’m no saint, by no means, but I consider myself a tried and true, kind hearted person who spends every waking moment committed to bringing happiness and hope to everyone’s lives whom I come in contact with. Considering the fact that I’m easy to please, if I get just one smile a day from any random person I’m a happy camper.

I happened to be on my way out of the hospital emergency room door to have a cigarette. As I reached the edge of the sidewalk I noticed two women having trouble getting out to a car that was pulled over just outside the doors. I offered them a wheelchair to safely get in the building. They began to ask me all kinds of questions, but I couldn’t answer any of them. I explained to them that I was not an employee of the hospital and I just tried to help them because they clearly needed assistance. Just for taking the time to help her and the woman she was assisting into the emergency room of the hospital. She was so inspired by my kindness, she blessed me, oh, and did I mention she was a nun. Everyday I think about that nice nun and her friend, and I say a prayer for them.

I pray daily, that people will begin to be genuinely good and kind to one another. Even though I know in my heart that it takes the bad things in life to make the good things even passable I still have that hope in my soul for the purity of a truly kind heart. Faith in ourselves and faith in others is really all we have, maybe, if more people would think this way the world will be a better place.

Reach out your hand once in a while, for no good reason; you never know who might be reaching out at the same time. The Lord works in mysterious ways, do you want to be the person passing him by.