Eat Pray Love

I saw the movie last night, and while I thought it was ok, i wanted to comment on the message of the film, more than the film itself. In case you are not familiar, The main character is in turmoil in her personal relationships, i.e bad marrage, sucky love life. So she decides to go and find herself, by eating in Italy, meditating and India, and finding herself in Bali. The film decides that what she needs in the end is of course, A GOOD MAN. Go figure! But there were bits and pieces in there that I felt were worth exploring. Most people are so busy, and our lives are so full of crap, that we rarely take the time to Stop and enjoy the moment, take the time to silence our minds and allow God, the universe or whatever you believe in,, to fill the void! Our minds are full of so much noise, we hear nothing. Not our hearts, nor our souls whispering to us, telling us the secrets of the Universe!I am so blessed to have realized this a long time ago. During each of my adventures (travels), I make it a point to stop ,,,,, and do nothing,, but just be,,,,, silent, to feel the breeze, the sun on my face,,,and enjoy the moment, of where I am, and what I'm doing right NOW! Someone once said to me, you travel thru the eyes of a camera! I was offended! He thought that I didn't see the world or experience it, because I was too busy looking thru my lens. I tried to explain, that he didn't understand me at all. It doesn't matter whether its a second, 10 minutes, 3 hrs or 3 days.. Time isn't the important factor, but the moment is, the feeling of utter peacefulness in that period of time! There are moments in each of my travels, that I'll never forget, some because of an exciting factor, some because of the time I took to enjoy the moment . I always try to express the moments in my pictures, to stop time in a fraction of a second , to capture a moment, I'm having ,,, I enjoy sharing them, but more importantly, love remembering the feeling and peacefulness those times brought to me!

Dreams

Isn't it wonderful to have a dream and work towards it? If everyone believes this and wishes for it themselves. Why do people tear our dreams down? It really bothers me, when someone has a snide comment or rolls there eyes towards what others say about their dreams or aspirations. If you think they will fail, fine, But KEEP it TO yourself!!! Especially if you care about that person! Now I know why so many families stand by the participants in American Idol, those who cant sing, because they just want to support their loved ones. Let Simon destroy their dreams. But when ones dreams are not hurting anyone, including the dreamer, leave them alone, let them fail on their own. We just want support. I'm a grown man, I don't need anyone telling me about failure or how life works, if you love me, smile and offer a suggestion. I don't want to hear negativity, or guess what.. You will be a roadblock, I walked over to get where I want to go !!!!

Someone explain this to me,,
Sept 11 2001-
Bush declares a no fly zone over the US. All aircraft land immediately. Planes that couldn't turn back were allowed to land at a small airfield in Canada, pop 12,000, the Canadians opened up there houses, providing food and medicine for almost 10,000 stranded Americans .
2010
A volcano in Iceland erupts, stranding thousands in American airports, and we let them sleep on the floor!!! The passengers stuck in Europe are given hotel rooms,, the people here are lucky if we hand out a cot! I think it's shameful !

Now It affects our pockets

We had eight years of Bush and Cheney, Now you get mad!?
You didn't get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn't get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn't get mad when a covert CIA operative got outed.
You didn't get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn't get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn't get mad when we spent over 600 billion(and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn't get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn't get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn't get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn't get mad when we didn't catch Bin Laden.
You didn't get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn't get mad when we let a major US city, New Orleans, drown.
You didn't get mad when we gave a 900 billion tax break to the rich.
You didn't get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick.
Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all okay with you, but helping other Americans...oh hell no.

Taylor Swift

Now I like this song !!

What did You do? (Repost)

What did you do?

What did you do on that day?

Did you wake up to the alarm clock around 7, stumble out of bed, into the bathroom. Get into the shower. Get dressed, make some eggs for breakfast and then kiss the wife/husband. as you walk out the door.
Or
Hit the snooze button a couple of times, because you were up late putting together the bike for your sons birthday present. and your tired , so tired, but you have that important meeting today, or that deadline that has to get done. so you stumble to the shower. to try and wake up. Grab a quick cup of coffee and head into the office.
Or
Get out of your bed, ( get up ) stumble to the shower, because you have to go to work, even though your life is crumbling down around you, your boyfriend dumped you yesterday, and he was your entire world. why go into work? Because what else do you have. You werent married, no kids and the rest of your family live thousands of miles away!So work is all you have, and maybe just maybe he will call you, today,(please please ) after realizing, you were the love of his life and he can’t live without you ( please, please).
What did you do on your last day of life?

Me? I got on that damn plane!

The Circle is now Complete

Years ago, when I was in High School, I was tormented by a group of students. Not a revelation. One particular person( I wont name here ), would tease me mercilessly non stop. What was really hard was he was from my neighborhood. I couldn't escape him! He lived really close to me, go figure. One summer night, at his hot dog stand, we got into it and he blindsided me with a punch to the face. I lost it! This guy had me with about a 150 lbs, but I tackled him anyway , and had to be pulled off of him, I went berserk ! The tormenting didn't stop!Oh how I hated this overweight, dumb and ugly human being!!!! Speed up a few years and I'm at Donovan park watching the Twins play t-ball and I spot this really cute little boy get so excited because his Daddy is there to see him play. I look to see who in the world could this incredible person be and what hits me in the head like a mac truck!!! It's him.( Thank god he didn't recognise me, I would've died right there!) How can this be? He's Evil and vile, where is the justice in the Universe that he could have a beautiful child who loves him !!!! How can anyone LOVE him. How!(It's not fair !!!) I would always picture him in the lower rings of Hell getting exactly what he deserved. But alas, the joke was on me,once again! While I'm carrying around my cross, my pain from his torments, He went out and had a life ! With my luck, the life I wanted ! Well, with love of my family and friends, I finally laid my demons to rest and moved on. I often think to this day, What If I ran into ONE of THEM! What would I do. Am I over all that High school crap! I like to think I'm who I was meant to be now. I like and finally accept who I am. I'm proud now of my life ! BUT, what if? I was able to ignore him at the ballpark and as much as it was a shock. I was in such a good place I thought I didn't care anymore and it felt good,, BUT and here it comes,,,, he wants to be my friend on Facebook!!!! The circle is now complete!!! hahahahh. Why? !! and at first I thought, well we all grow up, but do i really forgive and FORGET? Can I just walk past and let it go? Should I? Or do I try and prove I'm beyond all that and can forgive and forget, allow this person however little to feel redeemed? ! I haven't decide, BUT I did look to see who he has befriended and its interesting to see people I love and admire are in his circle. One of whom is my brother,,, go figure,,,, I guess they didn't see, what I saw. Most people only see what they want to anyway!

Did Facebook kill the blog?

Sometimes I wonder? It seems with Facebook, now everyone has something to say, but I'm not letting that stop me. I'm getting back to blogging again. Soon ! Real Soon,,, Vacation plans upcoming!