ITS MORE ABOUT TRUTH THAN THE STORY....................... Lately several of my friends have not had life go the way they needed it to go. Life has a habit of giving us just enough happiness to think we got it figured out and then smacks us down and dares us to get back up. I have a story for you that may be boring. Ill brief as I can. But its all True. My wife and I had 9 business locations. Very nice home. New cars every other year. Trips all over the world. Then the first warning sign went up. Something called Napster was eating away at our sales in the music stores. We adjusted and opened recording studios. Then the economy turned sour in California. Always starts there first. While Oklahoma was riding high and laughing about Cali, we were cut another 20% in sales. Then my wife was was diagnosed with Cancer. Her insurance company we had paid into for 20 years dropped her immediately. Three years later after we had sold the home, sold the business paying medical bills fighting for her life, she died. I withdrew. Spent 3 more years drinking and drugging and relapsing into a life I was far too old to be doing. When the fog finally lifted I find myself back in Oklahoma a beaten man after 43 great years in Los Angeles. So what were my choices? To just go ahead and become homeless and begging? Put a bullet in my head? Or try one more time. And if that fails, try one more time. Thats the only options we have people. I love some of you to death but you come to me with very good ideas, you get my adrenaline going, you make me believe in you. Then you disappear. In your pain, your lack of time for what you have that is special, you hurt you even more. You hurt me. You hurt others who still believe in you. Im still here. Im going to keep fighting because maybe I get lucky and one of you who come to me with some incredibly good ideas will actually follow thru and just maybe well both beat the odds. I know your pain. I know your 90 hour weeks. I know your commitments. I know all those things. And I know what it means to be your own worst enemy. Because one thing I have learned in life is if you dont try to beat the odds, you never will.
Posted on: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 03:14:27 +0000
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