Reemergence

GASP!  Man, that fresh air tastes good!  The last half of a semester can really smother you if you are not careful.  I, apparently, was not careful and I got a little bit smothered.  Not to worry!  Everything turned out fine and, like a Phoenix rising from the ashes, I am back!

The good news: in the time between my last post and now I have taken up oil painting, the NBA started, and Oklahoma City is (believe it or not) better than expected!

The bad news: I ran out of razors about a week and a half ago and came to realization that The Baby - a distant second in most categories - can easily out-beard me any day of the week. (Sigh... This makes him more desirable than I am to play the role of Russell Crowe in "The Life of Russell Crowe")

The Baby has recently prodded me a little bit because I have not been posting recently, so, feeling bad, I decided that I would get back on and submit a post.  I logged into the blog account and saw that, while it is true that I have not posted for a while, The Baby has not posted either for a solid month, so I do not feel so bad anymore.

Oddly enough, what I wanted to post about today is similar to something that he posted in late September.  If you are unfamiliar with The Holstee Manifesto, I recommend that you read it.  The Holstee Manifesto a poster that is essentially made up of inspiring, "get-off-your-duff" statements and it is designed to inspire the very best from whoever reads it.  While I do not think that it is necessarily good advice to just quit your job if you don't like it, the idea is great - this is your life and if you are not sitting in the driver's seat you are never going to end up where you want to be.  You'll always just end up wherever the current driver takes you. 

I think that this analogy is interesting because I believe that sometimes it can be appropriate to "just be along of the ride" with the proviso that the driver is going where you ultimately want to go.  If you bump into someone who might make a great business partner because he or she shares your same goals, jump on in, take turns driving, and make sure that you're not the only one paying for gas!

The point is that we all have one life, so why not spend it finding out what we love and then doing what we love?  What is stopping us from making our dreams come true once we have a clear vision of what those dreams are?  I challenge you to open your eyes and really think about what you love, and once you have that clear vision, go get it.