Digressions

Welcome to The Drawing Board.
This is will be a place for me to spread out thoughts and dreams so that I can sort them out, things are easier to evaluate on 'paper' rather than on the inside of one's head, where all ideas sound good.

There are many times in life when the road you are walking seems to change right under your feet. You can never be sure if the change will be good or not but change will happen and there is little you can do but hold on and try to keep your footing.

In my short life I have learned many things, experience being the great teacher that it is, had a few hard knocks and felt many a dagger planted firmly in between my ribs. From each and every event there is always a lesson that can be learned, the question is will you learn the right one?
There is always the option in life to do good or to do wrong, sadly for the majority of people taking the instant gratification route of being self serving is the option they will go for 9 times out of 10. I by no means am innocent of this, I have done many things wrong in my life, many things I now regret, I cannot change the past but I can restructure my decision making paradigm for the future. Having learned my lessons the hard way I am far more apprehensive of the cost of the 'easy way out', choose the high road in the end you will be happier for it with less of a burden hanging like a ball and chain from your chest.

Tonight my head is full of many thoughts and concerns for the days ahead as it commonly is, which is why this blog has come into existence, I fear that sleep would escape me if I do not get something out.
Quieting the mind and heart is no easy task, both are vibrant and hard working. Two things that God put in man that he made different from all else in His Creation. Take the heart and mind away from man and you have a beast. I for one know many a man who has never found his God given gifts and still remains a brute that has an ability to form words but fails at any attempt to be a honorable man.
It is the duty of the parents to teach their children how to be decent people, if the parents themselves do not understand this concept then how should the offspring be expected to understand?
 Once and a while a gem of a person arises from the depths of destitution and pain to become one of the few who decides that life is more than the existence that surrounds them. This is a conscious choice, one that requires much dedication and work. A person who can do this has the ability to do great things.

For now I have quieted the chaos in my head, soothing it into submission with music and the sigh of sleeping dogs. Good night and Adieu.

E