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If you had 24 hours to live I would guarantee we probably wouldn’t spend it on social. I also bet if we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth, cell phone or land line would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them. We have no guarantees in life.
Young, Scrappy and Hungry.
Somewhereville, Atlanta, GA. 2018 looking like 1988.
Smile because it can always be worse.
I think like a lot of things in life we struggle with decision making. How do we curate our life to give an appearance of success and happiness? I often struggle with this because I have always wanted to appear to be successful but I realized in my outward appearance that my inward self-wasn’t happy. I was struggling every day in 2017 and I couldn’t put my finger on why I was struggling. In 2018, I made the decision to make my year about real life relationships instead of online relationships. I really concentrated on my wife and my kids. I met people for lunch, visited friends out of state and stopped my day to talk life instead of running to my desk to see life online. It reminded me of this quote by Maya Angelou “I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don’t feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don’t like the destination and you look behind and you don’t want to return to that place, step off the road” Let’s stop being passengers and get in the driver seat of life.
“There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong. I don't think we have to look too far to see that... And when we stop to analyze the cause of our world's ills, many things come to mind. We begin to wonder if it is due to the fact that we don't know enough. But it can't be that. Because in terms of accumulated knowledge we know more today than men have known in any period of human history... And then we wonder if it is due to the fact that our scientific genius lags behind... Well then, it can't be that. For our scientific progress over the past years has been amazing... I think we have to look much deeper than that if we are to find the real cause of man's problems... If we are to really find it I think we will have to look in the hearts and souls of men. The trouble isn't so much that we don't know enough, but it's as if we aren't good enough. The trouble isn't so much that our scientific genius lags behind, but our moral genius lags behind. The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live... The problem is with man himself and man's soul. We haven't learned how to be just and honest and kind and true and loving. And that is the basis of our problem." -MLK
"If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition...you are not understanding yourself." I am done posting on social media on things that I think might get a "like" and I am going to begin to post things that I see, things that move me and things that make me happy. I am done following the pattern of perception.
“Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away” - Maya Angelou
“You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead, pursue the things you love doing, and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off you.” - Maya Angelou
"Most people don’t grow up. It’s too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That’s the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don’t grow up. Not really. They get older. But to grow up costs the earth, the earth. It means you take responsibility for the time you take up, for the space you occupy. It’s serious business. And you find out what it costs us to love and to lose, to dare and to fail. And maybe even more, to succeed. What it costs, in truth. Not superficial costs, anybody can have that, I mean in truth." - Maya Angelou
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." - Maya Angelou
”I’ve lost everything except my smile and hope”
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