Well I have been busy "reflecting" again. I spent the day at my daughter's computer store in the city because she had to go to an all day meeting. As the day grew to an end I kept thinking how much I missed my critters at home. (The 4 legged and the feathered ones-hehehee)  Us two legged critters are neat too, but my four legged ones are just so cute and cuddly that I miss them to pieces. 

They ask for so little and yet give so much in return!! Why can't humans be like that? Why do humans have to be so complicated and confusing sometimes? Why can't they be like critters and be as nice and as forthcoming and as sincere 100% of the time?  Points to ponder--don't you think? Sometimes I like my critters and feathered creatures better then most humans! 

I've done a lot of soul searching since I got hurt and my inner self is much more in tune with what I want and need in my every day life then it has ever been. I look at life a little differently now and realize that the constant rush of the human rat race does not really take you anywhere that you need to be in a hurry to get to. Because in the end you die and it doesn't matter anyway. You fight to achieve power and the almighty dollar, only to maybe succeed and die anyway and leave it all behind. You come into this world with nothing and you go out of this world the same way. Yet everyone hurries to get from nothing back to nothing again! Really makes for a lot of headache and heartache doesn't it? 

Instead of enjoying the really important things, like love of family and nature, humans rush, rush rush and too late they realize that they missed out on what was truly important in the first place and right in front of their face if they only truly took the time to look. How do you find yourself, know yourself, learn to like yourself when you are rushing around life so fast that you lose yourself? Doesn't make sense does it ?

I think it was Shakespeare who said: "To thine own self be true". How many of us live by that? 
We are so busy rushing through daily life and trying to be what everyone else wants us to be or thinks we should be, to even begin to just be ourselves. We are so busy meeting everyone else's demands that we forget to meet our own. Then we break down and say "what's wrong with me" or "what did I do wrong?" What did you do wrong? You forgot to take the time to find you! You rushed so fast that you left you behind in the aftermath.

You forgot to stop and take time to enjoy life and before you know it, it will be too late because life will be over and you'll have missed the best parts. The parts that made memories to cherish. 
The only memories you'll have left for others will be the ones of how you were rushing so fast through life that you did not have time for them! Too busy to do the loving things that make memories that last long after you are gone.

No one cares how much power you have or how much money you make or how many businesses you own they care about the warm loving memories you make together and the days you enjoy just spending time doing nothing with them.

Think about that!! What kind of memories are you going to leave behind for others to treasure when your name is mentioned or your picture crosses in front of them.

For now 
Take Care,
Misker 
Sept. 15/99