Spring Approaches

Spring is finally approaching. The days are getting longer, the weather is warmer, and of course the dogs are coming out of their cages. Warm weather seems to unleash all kinds of perverts, degenerates and nut jobs. As women begin to peel of a few layers of winter clothing, the crazies come out even more. There are men who will try to pick up a woman after begging her for money. Once after serving food at a soup kitchen one of the men tried to get my attention and "pick me up". Are you kidding me??? Men if you don't have a pot to piss in, worry about getting yourself together and not spitting game to women. After serving you food at a soup kitchen do you honestly think I would give you the time of day? Where are we going to go, what are we going to do together? Do they plan on taking their dates to the soup kitchen for a candlelit dinner? This is not to sound shallow or conceited. This is directed not just to men who are down on their luck but men who are fugly, or live in their mother's basements and expect to land a woman who runs her own business.These men are probably very nice, and decent but the fact is you need to be able to handle your own business before attempting to pick up a woman. I suppose if the only sex in on their minds then they have no concerns whether or not they can do anything for a woman, but it still just seems illogical. I think this is the beginning of an article, men who date (or at least attempt ) to date women way out of their league. Maybe this is something to study so that I can understand it. Do they honestly think they have a shot? Are they under the illusion that they are better than they really are?

Wake Me Up

It seems as though there are not enough hours in the day. Between work, working out, writing articles for small publications, community service, church, and hanging out with friends, I barely have enough time for sleep. This was something I used to be able the manage. Over the months few months, almost a year however, all I've been doing is sleeping! I've had bad sleep habits from college that I've been trying to break but it just doesn't seem to work. By the time I get home from work in the afternoon, all I want to do is watch the idiot box till I fall asleep. I know I'm not lazy, and I refuse to believe that its age ( I'm still a PYT). I even intended to post the article on kids in jail, but I barely have the time to write this post! I'd rather post the article once I've done some research and make it extensive, meaningful and well thought out as this is a subject I'm very passionate about.
Does this happen to everyone at this age, or am I just playing catch up on the sleep I didn't get a while ago? I am determined to break out of this habit. Life is passing me by while I'm asleep and I would hate to look back at my 20s and think I did nothing with my time but work, and go home, that's something for my 60s, pre-retirement. Hopefully as the weather warms up I can get back to my old self. We'll see how it turns out. Until then those of you who know me, if you want to hang out, please wake me up! Don't let me sleep through life!

Day 40 Figure it Out

This is the final entry on The Purpose Driven Life. It has taken me a long time to complete these 40 days. Some of the questions asked of me were repetitive and annoying while most were so thought provoking, it take me a while to figure out my answers. The final question asks when i am going to write my purpose statement.
The purpose statement is based on what I have learned for the book and how I am going to apply what I know now to the rest of my life. I realize that my purpose statement is going to take me weeks or probably months to write, finish, and fine tune. I will say that I have learned a bit about myself in reading this book. I couldn't figure out what I was supposed to be doing with my life. I knew I wanted to help people but didn't know how. I wasn't sure if it was supposed to be part of my career or something I did on the side. I realize now what my purpose is (or at least I have an idea of what it is). I am going to use the talents that God gave me to reach out to kids in the criminal justice system. While I do not plan on making this my career, I do want to devote a significant amount of time to it. If all goes well, and this is really my purpose, I should be able to do so within the next couple of months.
The funny thing is I've never been one to be bothered with children. To me they were always someone else's headache. Even a a teenager myself, I thought that the things my peers said and did made no sense and were sometimes, straight ignorant. They did and said things that perpetuated a stereotype of not just young minority teens but teens in general. Although I tried to fit in, and act the way they did, it never was me, and my true self would show every time. This made me the nerd, and the outcast. I realize I was just mature for my age. This was probably my purpose the entire time. To use what I know and my passion for continued knowledge to teach but not in a traditional form. I want them to see there is more than basketball and rapping. Being intelligent isn't corny. I am going to start with kids who many have given up on......

Figure out what your purpose is and act on it. It isn't about how much many you want to make or cars you own, but what you do to make a small difference in someone's life.