I was just thinking back to the year 2000. Wasn't the world suppose to end due to computers everywhere shutting down, thus rendering all civilization as we know it to stop dead in it's tracks?
Now we have everyone running around like chickens with their heads cut off, worrying about
the next new ending...2012... Heck, I saw the movie. It was really good, but I haven't
lost any sleep over the fact the Mayan calender ends on that day. My google calender
goes to (as Buzz light year would say)... “to infinite and beyond”.
And really, isn't Google like the end all be all of everything now?
Swine flu, bird flu, Mad Cow...what's next?.. Maybe Cats Meow infection??
I'm starting to feel like Rusty Dennis, played beautifully by Cher in the Move “Mask”
back in 1984. If you haven't seen it you really should, here is a clip:
Here is what Rusty Dennis says in the movie: “First you told me he was gonna be retarded, then you told me he was gonna be blind AND deaf. If I'd dug his grave every time one of you geniuses told me he was gonna die, I'd be eating f' in' chop suey in China by now!”
Kind of how I feel with all these new “earth/ civilization” ending situations that come up.
Just one more thing for us to worry about. You know what they say about worry.
“Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.”
Now please don't get me wrong, I know that there are great tragic events that happen in all
of our lives. I have two very close friends, who in the last 2 weeks have (1. Lost a nephew in a tragic accident, and 2. Found out that her brother has a life ending illness). These
are both events that will rock a family, and cause huge ripples through the frame work of ones mind. I'm not saying that these events don't effects us, as they do.
(On a side note however, both of these friends are now experience more love, friendship, and closeness with their families then ever before. They spent christmas together, and shared so much joy. I have seen with my own eyes, one of the husbands change in ways that only an experience like this could trigger. He is more alert, more aware of his family, and more open to others around him. He gave me a half hug.. Pretty HUGE for him)
So maybe a NEW beginning???
This is the way I look at it. An Ending, is just a new beginning.
I read today on Facebook, yes Facebook..
It is quite fun, you should join up.. and follow me when you do.. I'm kind of a big deal. LOL
http://www.facebook.com/ShaneClevenger
Anyway, shameless plug. Back to what I read on Facebook.
“What's cool is that it's ALWAYS the end too. We can close out any past we are not pleased with ANYTIME.”
I read that, and thought.. Exactly.
Everyday, Every moment we get to start a new life, If we choose too. If there is something in our lives that we don't like, we can change it... In an instant.
The cool thing is that we don't have to wait until the end of the year, or a decade to start new goals, or to think of things that we want to accomplish over the next 365 days.
We can do this at anytime.
It is however a wonderful time of year. This is the time where EVERYONE'S thoughts are
to new beginning, and setting goals, and creating a new life for themselves. There is a great atmosphere around us of “New Beginnings”. Join the fun. Set some BIG HAIRY, Fear Eating Goals, and share them with others. Everyone is open to hearing them.
Embrace this time of year, and get together with like minded people.
That being said, I would like to end with this.
Please, don't let other people tell you your dreams are dead. If you listened to everyone in
your life that told you, you weren't good enough, skinny enough, smart enough, etc to
be the person who YOU KNOW YOU ARE INSIDE YOUR HEAD, you are going to prove them right. Listen to "YOU, the Real You" You are an Amazing person.
All a successful person is, is someone who proved to the world that they were the person they knew they were inside their mind. You control your thoughts, which control your actions.
Don't let others ideas of you control your life. Don't let societies fears of gloom and doom fill your mind with worry.
If, like Rusty Dennis you dug a grave every time you heard others tell you “You can't”. Well, their right.. You Can't. If, however you take the shovel, and bury the words “I Can't” Out of your life... OH the Great things you will accomplish.
Think new beginnings, new love, new life, new attitudes.
But hurry, cause we only have until the end of 2012..LOL
With Love and Gratitude,
Big Shane
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