I cried a lot on this day 13 years ago. I watched, as did all the world, a horrific tragedy unfold on my TV screen....and it was real. I was on the phone with my cousin as he stood on a hill in New Jersey and watched the smoke carry across a bright blue sky and out to the Atlantic. I was confused, I was angry, and I was sad. At that time in my life I was in a period of reshaping myself. This event really made me focus on what I wanted to be the most important things in my life. I did not want attachment to material things, I wanted to be closer to the things that really matter-my family, our environment, my friends, a spirituality that I had yet to find in a pew, a bar stool, or the drivers seat of a muddy Jeep. So, what did I do? I went to Wyoming....well, that and a renewed focus on my art. Actually a beginning to my art, as I had no clue what I was doing at the time. I didnt stay long in Wyoming. I came home to be greeted with my own personally tragedy. In the span of 4 months I lost my closest cousin, I lost my paternal grandmother, and I lost my dad. I dont think Ive ever really resolved the loss to this day. But, as life destroys, it also creates. In that same time I had met a woman, I actually met her before I went to Wyoming. I didnt always treat her right. I was consumed with a selfishness. She stuck with me. She gave me two beautiful children and she became my wife. We are living happily ever after. Were happy because we chose to focus on the positive, build on the positive. My point here is that no matter how bad things may be in the world, we can control our own response to these things. Will we focus on the bad? Will we allow them to make us bitter, cynical, and look at everything with a certain contempt? Its a choice. Dont let the bastards get you down.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 13:12:18 +0000
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