hanging out…
gonna be here for a long time… hope everyone set some goals… because i certainly have.
🙂
new year reso…whatever…
am i one of those people? someone who makes lists on the eve of the eve thinking that somehow inscribing goals to ink and dead trees will give them resonance?
absolutely.
has doing this ever worked for me? i’ll have to give it a 50/50. sometimes yes, sometimes no… i’ve found that the commitment to achieving the aforementioned goals isn’t born before or during making that list. it’s when you wake up the next day and look at that list…if it’s gonna happen, it’s gonna happen then. i believe bill cosby said, ” If you want to follow your dreams and make them come true — the first thing you have to do is: Wake Up.
so i’ll tell you what happens when i wake up…
laugh…
those of you that know me in real life know that i can be quick with a one-liner… i’m almost as quick with a two-liner… and when pushed hard enough, i can knock out a three-liner. the scientific name for this is Wiseissicus Assicius. i’m not sure when i was first classified as this…probably somewhere between puberty and my freshman year of college. i have a tendency to drop these lines at the least opportune moment. sometimes they act as a great diffuser… sometimes they cause things to explode. either way, someone laughs… even if it’s just my laughter.
you gotta laugh… because crying uses too much kleenex and i’m too cheap to buy any.
thinking…
a few weeks back, i did a special commission for a good friend. the commission was for his father-in-law, who had a few setbacks health wise but retained his sense of humor and love of life. it was supposed to be a christmas present…unfortunately, he had a severe stroke on christmas eve… and passed away not long after that. he never got to see what i did. my friend posted the following on facebook yesterday:
talk about feeling good and bad at the same time. just goes to show how you never really know the type of impact your actions, or in this case the work i produce, will have.