Blue Pill or Red Pill?

There are many choices that we make during our lifetime. Some of these choices will affect us for years at a time, while others will come and pass in days. The choices that we make help us grow into who we are. There are many choices that bring happiness and many that bring sadness. There are even some choices that bring both. Then there is always the chance that the choices you make can bring both happiness and sadness to others.

It can be a very personal and emotional subject with people when you talk about the choices that they’ve made. People write books and sell countless audio and visual stimulants to help people cope with the choices that have brought sadness. It is the ones that bring sadness that tend to grab my attention. This is mainly because of my over dramatic nature, which I developed due to the choices that I’ve made and the choices that my parents have made. Which case in point brings us back to my first point that the choices we make turn us into the people we are.

It’s very heart breaking to realize and see the effects that poor choices do to people. The lack of care and love that is missed is huge. It is so unbelievable that our own human nature is so selfish and self-serving that we make choices that harm other people. What’s worse is that we make these choices consciously and sometimes on purpose.

The one thing you should never do is bring up old wounds to make a point. The question is: Is it really so important for you to make your point that you’re willing to cause someone pain, especially when it’s not needed or warranted? Ask yourself that question the next time you decide to open your mouth and speak. This happens so often and many times it is done without thinking. It’s not until later that you realize what you’ve said and by that time is it too late. People become wrapped up in the moment and often say the first thing that comes to mind.

I was filled with so much sadness and love recently for a dear friend of mine as I looked at them sitting on a couch watching TV. They didn’t know that I was looking at them, but because I know their history I couldn’t help but wonder what was going through their head. They have had a rough road and I’m so thankful for where they are at now in their life. The choices they have made has very much moved them to the person they are today. It is such a great blessing to see healthy growth in people. It is always an answered prayer.

I hope that you make smart and righteous decisions each and every day. There is always an opportunity for you to teach and encourage those you are around. I encourage you to make that choice when it’s presented. You never know when someone needs a helping hand.

Go to the Top

Come back to the paper.

I’ve been very careless lately with my writing. I haven’t written anything in days and I feel that a part of me has died. Writing has become such a large part of my life and has grown into a form a therapy and guidance for my thoughts. Even now, and only writing few sentences and I feel like I can breathe again.

The past 6 weeks have been very trying, in good ways mostly. But when I think about all the recent events I am completely amazed how much has happened in so little time. Normally things happen every once in a while but if I were to draw it out, the past 6 weeks have been more like the past 2 years.

Jason and I have a saying. And it’s not really a saying that we came up with because I’m sure you’ve heard it before. But more of a thought that when things are going good and all is at peace with the world, usually that is the time when something comes along to shake things up.

Just like now, I was riding along and then I was blindsided by a train.

I was recently asked, “How are you?” to which I replied, “Good”. And I was telling the truth. I am good. But I have a great deal of worry and concern for my friends and family which in turn makes me feel otherwise. With all the uncertainty of the recent events my mind has begun to wonder. I wonder about the future of the church, the future of my family and friends. I wonder about my relationship with God and how I feel like I am constantly disappointing him. We all strive to be better Christians day by day. And think God that we have that gift. Each day is precious and is given with the expectation that you live as and Christian and teach and encourage as much as you can.

The thought that gives me the most comfort is to know that I’m part of the family that has no end. My family that I have the hope of being with in heaven forever.

Read 1 Timothy 5:1-2

1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

I’m so thankful that God has given us that opportunity. To be a part of a family that we’ll hopefully be together forever. Doesn't that feel good to say? “I’m a part of a family that will be with me forever.”

Here’s to more writing…

Go to the Top

Loss of Motor Functions Followed by Fatigue

You wake up to the sound of your alarm. You stretch in your bed with the motion that is very similar to the dance “Y.M.C.A.”. You step into a hot shower after which you brush your teeth with the anticipation of the fresh crisp feeling your mouth will have the moment you’re finished. You make your way to the kitchen for that first cup of coffee. You open your front door to the clean morning air. You can still smell the rain from the night before. You get in you car and head off to face the world.

Then it hits you. Whether you’re on city streets or the highway there it is. A WRECK!

Driving a car is not a difficult task. The right peddle makes the car move. The left peddle makes the car stop. If you turn the steering wheel to the right the car will go right. If you turn the steering wheel to the left the car will go to the left. It’s a very simple concept.

Scientists have proven that when the weather changes certain chemicals in the brain stop being produced. Brain cells actually start to degenerate and die. This causes a loss of motor functions followed by fatigue. Whether it’s rain, sleet, snow, high wind, or even the most harmless element FOG! This loss of motor functions followed by fatigue almost always occurs.

For years this was an unknown phenomenon. It was first discovered in 2011 by Professor John Huff. He realized there was an increase in car wrecks when the weather changed from the day before. Almost if the weather from the previous day was programmed into the brain, and because the weather was different then the day before the brain was unable to handle this change.

With this information we are able to understand that due to the change of weather followed by the loss of motor functions. The simplest of concepts (driving a car) becomes an impossible mission.

So, the next time you plan to wake up with hopes of getting to work on time or making that morning appointment. Be sure that you check the weather the night before. Because we know that wrecks will happen.

Go to the Top

The Therapeutic Barber

This came to me while waiting for a friend to finish getting his hair cut. My friend was in the barber chair and the barber was trimming away. Sitting a few seats down from me was a young man no more then 25 years of age. He sat there patiently and quietly waiting for his turn, and giving extra effort to sit there unnoticed. A few minutes later a barber called his name and he rushed over the barber station.

Once he was in the barber’s chair he got a big smile on his face and started talking like he hadn’t talked in years, and he continued to talk until the barber finished. When the barber finished he slowly got out of the chair, said “Thank you.” and with the same depressed demeanor as before walked to the counter to pay. Which out saying a word he paid the clerk and then left the shop.

I thought to myself, “Why did he seem so enthusiastic to talk to the barber and no one else?” I gathered that they were not relatives or friends on account that they introduced each other when they met. “So why did this young man act this way?”

Here’s what I think.

There is an understood and unspoken bond of trust between you and your barber. You trust them to style and shape your hair into what the rest of the world will see. Giving your barber this trust tells them that you’re putting your appearance in their hands. With this trust grows an atmosphere of warmth. There becomes an established bond between you and your barber of unbiased opinion that lets you feel safe.

I believe that this is the reason that many people share their lives and world with the people tasked to make them look appealing to it. People develop strong relationships with whoever they spend a majority of their time with. Whether it’s in their families, or work places, or at church, people search for friendship.

But what if someone doesn’t have a strong family life? Or they work in an unfriendly environment? Or they don’t attend a church? Who are these people going to talk to?

Feeding the poor is a big eye opener. People who are in need love to talk. It’s not because they’re hoping you’ll show them generosity. But that you will listen to what they have to say.

I believe this need to be heard spans from the fast growing selfishness of the world. The world is turning into a very un-personable place. We have facebook, twitter, and self service checkouts line so that we don’t have to look at each other in the face. Everyone is caught up in the media and the “I” generation. I. I. I. Me. Me. Me. The world has advanced to an “I” way of feeling. “You don’t need anyone, because you are independent and can do it yourself no matter what it is.” Apple has capitalized on this idea (iPhone, iPad, iMac, iTunes, iPhoto). All of these products work easily so that you don’t have to, which in turn eliminates the need to ask for help.

It is human nature to place ourselves above others, which in turn makes those selfish people unappealing to those that are in need. There are countless people striving to find someone to talk to. Most often then not these people go unheard.

Stop texting and call the person. We all remember what it was like in grade school. We would anxiously give a note to a girl or boy asking them if they liked us. The note would read,



We acted this way when we were children because it was more comfortable then talking face to face. The same goes for texting and email. A phone call now days are a real encouragement to people. When you text it’s a way of avoidance. This is not to say that texting is completely wrong. But there is a time and place for everything.

A few years ago I wrote a column titled “Technology is it a good thing?” In that column I wrote about how advances in technology might soon create a system using cell phones to do everyday things. One example was: When you enter Target, Target’s phone system would connect to your cell phone using Bluetooth and send you a text asking, “Would you like to connect to Target?” Once you have connected you would then be able scan your phone over an item and it will charge it to your bank account. Because of this, there will no longer be the need for cashiers or that interaction with people.

I don’t think technology is a bad thing but if it keeps people from communicating with one another that is a problem. I encourage you to give someone a phone call rather than sending them a text. I encourage you to be willing to listen to someone you haven’t listened to before. From experience I’ve seen that those people who develop relationships with their barber or pharmacist really need to be heard. They are striving for relationships anywhere they can find them.

All people are in need of friendship and love. Often times the most successful marriages and best of friends are those who really listen to one another. Try to carry yourself in a way that is inviting. Don’t walk with you head down. No one wants you to talk to someone that’s in the dumps. Positivity is a very attractive quality and people are drawn to it. Strive to be one of those and you will be blessed.

Go to the Top

Sorry I missed your call, I wasn’t home.

This phase will very soon if not already be lost in time. In today’s world more and more people have turned to using cell phones as opposed to having a land line. Cell phones have become the standard. So much in fact, that recently my mother told me that she was at an intersection and every person at that same intersection in all 3 opposing lanes were talking on their cell phones.

This didn’t come as a surprise to me but more as a feeling of resentment. Resentment, that we all are so disconnected with each other. I recently attended a seminar where one of the speakers told us a story about how he watched a family of 4 enter a restaurant, order, eat, and pay for there food without saying one word to each other. The father and mother were both talking and emailing on their phones. Both children were playing video games and listening to music. Again I wasn’t surprised because I’m sure that I’ve been apart of the same experience at some point.

With the passing of land lines and the growth of cell phones, it got me to thinking about all the things that will soon be obsolete. I did some online research and compiled a list of a few things that brought a smile to my face. Here is a list of some of the things that my children may never know.

1. Video Tapes: “Getting up” and inserting a VHS tape into a VCR. Whether to watch a movie or to record a show on TV. Now days with the rising growth of Netflix and the internet people don’t have to “Get up” and do anything.

2. Scanning the radio dial and hearing static between stations: We now have digital tuners and HD radios. Or how about playing music on an audio tape using a personal stereo. Do you know what a Walkman is?

3. Rotary dial phones and televisions with no remote control: Some people can remember when TV channels were only a single digit. Do you remember waiting for the television network to premiere a movie after its run at the theater. Or where 3-D movies were still consisted of wearing the red-and-green glasses.

4. Do pay phones or answering machines still exist? Do movie rental stores still exist?

5. Wires: They are still around, but not for long. I can remember when I was younger packing up my Nintendo all nice and neat and going over to a friend’s house to play video games. When I got there and began unpacking my Nintendo something magical occurred. All the wires to all the components were now tangled into a chaotic mass of destruction that can only be fixed by sitting for what seemed like hours to sort out.

6. Blowing the dust out of a NES cartridge: If you don’t have games on CD or DVD don’t worry. You can almost play every game ever made online. Even CDs might soon be gone.

7. Floppies and Zip Discs: This fits into the same category as hearing the scream of a modem connecting, the buzz of a dot-matrix printer, sitting and counting in kilobytes on a screen, or booting your computer using a floppy disk.

8. Phone Books: Yellow Pages and White Pages will soon be gone. As we as having to remember someone’s phone number.

9. Real Books: Learning information from an encyclopedia or dictionary. Using a road atlas to get from point A to point B. Using a card catalog at the library.

10. Beautiful handwriting: Do you remember filling out an order form by hand and putting it in an envelope and posting it? Can we even read words that don’t have num8er5 in them? LOL. “LOL” what is that?

11. Cameras that use film: “What does that mean?”

12. Doing business at the bank when the bank is open.

13. “What is a Travel Agent?”

14. Paying For Long Distance: “Wait what is Long Distance?”

15. Vacuum cleaners with bags in them.

16. Manually unlocking a car door.

Go to the Top

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Published on Wednesday, June 09, 2010 at 3:10 pm

The deepest definition youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
Alfred North Whitehead 1861-1947

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him.
George Santayana 1863 – 1952

Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you shall come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The years teach much which the days never know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Temperament is the iron wire on which the beads are strung.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they provide to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue, and each shows only what lies in its focus.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go to the Top

Advice for 2010 and beyond . . .

Published on Thursday, May 24, 2010 at 6:19 pm

By HARVEY MACKAY Universal Feature Syndicate

One of the most innovative holiday greetings I received last year came from friends who sent a holiday card labeled "Quips and Quotes to help you toast the New Year."

In fact, I liked it so much I decided to create my own version. Here is some of my best advice to guide you through 2010 and beyond:

• They don't pay off on effort they pay off on results.
• No one ever choked swallowing his or her pride.
• Don't just mark time; use time to make your mark.
• People don't plan to fail, they fail to plan.
• The best way to be somebody is just to be yourself.
• It is not a question of who is right but what is right.
• The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing it exactly right.
• Many people hear but few people listen.
• There is no free tuition in the school of experience.
• The person who has no goal does not fear failure.
• The best way to get even is to forget.
• It is better to forgive and forget than to resent and remember.
• Make decisions with your heart, and you'll wind up with heart disease.
• People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be — not what you nag them to be.
• You can win more friends with your ears than with your mouth.
• When you kill a little time, you may be murdering opportunity.
• Education is an investment and never an expense.
• It's never right to do wrong, and it's never wrong to do right.
• A smile is more important than anything else you wear.
• Gratitude shouldn't be an occasional incident but a continuous attitude.
• Helping someone up won't pull you down.
• Those that have the most to say usually say it with fewest words.
• If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense in making them.
• People wrapped up in themselves make pretty small packages.
• When is the last time you did something for the first time?

I also wanted to share these gems from unknown authors whose wisdom is timeless:

• Smart is believing half of what you hear; brilliant is knowing which half to believe.
• One thing I can give and still keep is my word.
• Compromise is always wrong when it means sacrificing principle.
• Most people say they are willing to meet each other halfway; trouble is most people are pretty poor judges of distance.
• If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
• Most people aim to do right; they just fail to pull the trigger.
• Most people fail in life because the wishbone is where the backbone should be.
• Courage is not the absence of fear; it is the mastery of it.
• Friendship doubles our joy and divides our grief.
• Happiness can be thought, taught and caught — but not bought.
• Burying your talents is a grave mistake.
• Praise, like sunlight, helps all things to grow.
• Life gives you time and space — it's up to you to fill it.
• The heaviest thing I can carry is a grudge.
• A stumble may prevent a fall.
• Failure is no more fatal than success is permanent.

Go to the Top

What Love Means to Children

Published on Monday, March 29, 2010 at 10:50 am

Touching words. What does 'Love' mean? A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, 'What does 'love' mean?' The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think:

1. When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn't bend over and paint her toenails anymore.

So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That's love.' Rebecca- age 8

2. When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You just know that your name is safe in their mouth.' Billy - age 4

3. Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.' Karl - age 5

4. Love is when you go out to eat and give somebody most of your French fries without making them give you any of theirs.' Chrissy - age 6

5. Love is what makes you smile when you're tired.' Terri - age 4

6. Love is when my mommy makes coffee for my daddy and she takes a sip before giving it to him, to make sure the taste is OK.' Danny - age 7

7. Love is when you kiss all the time. Then when you get tired of kissing, you still want to be together and you talk more. My Mommy and Daddy are like that. They look gross when they kiss' Emily - age 8

8. Love is what's in the room with you at Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen.' Bobby - age 7 (Wow!)

9. If you want to learn to love better, you should start with a friend who you hate,'

Nikka - age 6 (we need a few million more Nikka's on this planet)

10. Love is when you tell a guy you like his shirt, then he wears it everyday.' Noelle - age 7

11. Love is like a little old woman and a little old man who are still friends even after they know each other so well.' Tommy - age 6

12. During my piano recital, I was on a stage and I was scared. I looked at all the people watching me and saw my daddy waving and smiling.

He was the only one doing that. I wasn't scared anymore.' Cindy - age 8

13. My mommy loves me more than anybody You don't see anyone else kissing me to sleep at night.' Clare - age 6

14. Love is when Mommy gives Daddy the best piece of chicken.' Elaine-age 5

15. Love is when Mommy sees Daddy smelly and sweaty and still says he is handsomer than Robert Redford.' Chris - age 7

16. Love is when your puppy licks your face even after you left him alone all day' Mary Ann - age 4

17. I know my older sister loves me because she gives me all her old clothes and has to go out and buy new ones.' Lauren - age 4

18. When you love somebody, your eyelashes go up and down and little stars come out of you.' (what an image) Karen - age 7

19. You really shouldn't say 'I love you' unless you mean it. But if you mean it, you should say it a lot. People forget.' Jessica - age 8

And the final one -- Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.

The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.

Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.

When his Mother asked what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, 'Nothing, I just helped him cry'

When there is nothing left, that is when you find out that love is all you need.

Go to the Top

New Quotes

Published on Thursday, January 26, 2010 at 12:20 pm

What then have I done What, except yield to a natural feeling, inspired by beauty, sanctioned by virtue and kept at all times within the bounds of respect. It's innocent expression prompted not by hope but by trust." ~Vicomte de Valmont

To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. ~Paul Aubuchon

Go to the Top

Your Hard Drive

August 26, 2008 at 8:19 pm

At the time when we are born our mind is like a blank computer hard drive. We lack any knowledge or understanding of the world around us. We have an operating system installed that gives us the very basic of motor functions. We eat, we sleep, and we produce waste. That is all we are really good for.

In keeping with this concept that our minds are so similar to that of a computer hard drive. I want to elaborate on the idea of people developing and learning to the point were they develop a belief system, which is called faith. Weather you believe in God, evolution, or absolutely nothing at all, you have a foundation of faith that your belief is built on. A computer cannot get smarter and cannot learn from its mistakes (yet). But a computer can become more advanced. Just like your mind.

Faith as describe in Hebrews is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. “Being sure of what we hope for.” This means a person has the understanding that whatever truths they hold to be true, whatever ideas they have in their mind, whatever strengths they seem to possess, they hold all of these things so close to them that they would be willing to put their life on the line, if need be.

“Certain of what we do not see.” This is the strength of mankind’s best and worst decisions. These two examples show us that if a person believes in something strong enough that they will find a solution.

In 1922 Einstein was certain that relativity existed, thus awarded him the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, for his services to Theoretical Physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the photoelectric effect.

Leo Szilard was certain and conceived of the possibility of a controlled release of atomic power through a multiplying neutron chain reaction, and also realized that if such a reaction could be found, then a bomb could be built using it.

Robert Oppenheimer known as the Father of the Atomic Bomb. He said this after that bomb was built and used. He looked to his peers with saddened tears in his eyes and said, “I am become Death.”

Many things can be accomplished with a strong belief in something. People can go far beyond what is thought possible if they believe in it. Paul had an amazing faith. A faith so strong that he hunted and killed countless Christians, because he believed that is what he was supposed to do. His belief was so strong it took God talking to him to open his eyes and turn him away from that belief.

There are so many bad things we can read, or watch, or partake in. Once we have experienced something it is forever in our memory, good or bad, just like installing a piece of software on a computer hard drive.

My question to you is,

What software are you going to install on your hard drive? Are you going to drop your firewall and say anything is ok? Are you going to set the bar on what is right and choose to do that whatever the cost?

This is where that strong belief system comes into play. Being sure and certain of what God wants will help you keep your defense and stay on the right path.

Go to the Top

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Self-Reliance (1841)

July 6, 2009 at 10:30 pm

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance, that imitation is suicide. That he must take himself for better or worse as his portion… What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule equally arduous in actual and intellectual life may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own. But the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

Go to the Top

Earth

June 8, 2009 at 10:51 pm

When you stand in the checkout line at a grocery store, have you ever stopped and looked at all the resources it takes to fill all the baskets that all the people in the world need? There is a great deal of paper, plastic, metal, oil, gas, and other natural resources used to fill and create a working grocery store. This idea is excluding the fact that there are thousands and thousands of grocery stores all over the world. With a great majority of those stores being located in the United States. We are using the world’s resources at a geometric rate and I fear that someday soon it is going to catch up with us. Even though I know this planet is self sustaining.

I often ask myself what was Gods plan when he made “this or that?” Why are people are “this way or that way?” But God in his infinite knowledge made us and the planet so perfect. I have the faith that mankind will survive until he comes back. That is the plan and so that is how it must happen.

But this concern for mankind still remains, how long are we going to survive in this state? Are we killing the planet? How much longer is the sun going to burn? These are all questions mankind has been trying to answer.

There will be hardships in the future just as there has been in the past. Empires fall and drought and famine cover the land. No matter how advanced science and technology becomes. I do believe that science and technology can make these hardships easier. We can discover and create new ways of recycling, and new methods for creating transportation and energy. But we will still have to endure.

We have to be aware of these things and to do the best we can with it. Not to waste things we have, to be more resourceful, and to help everyone we come in contact with. Because in the end all will have are each other!

Go to the Top

Every Child Needs a Family

January 8, 2009 at 11:44 pm

This really left an impression.

Go to the Top

Let us complain less and give more!

December 13, 2008 at 11:47 pm

If you think you are unhappy, look at them.


If you think your salary is low, how about her?


If you think you don’t have many friends…


When you feel like giving up, think of this man


If you think you suffer in life, do you suffer as much as he does?


If you complain about your transport system, how about them?


If your society is unfair to you, how about her?















Are you still complaining?

Observe around you and be thinkful for all that you have in this transitory lifetime… We are fortunate, we have much more than what we need to be content.

Let’s try not to feed this endless cycle of consumerism and immorality in which this “modern and advanced” society forgets and ignores the other two thirds of our brothers and sisters.

Enjoy life how it is and as it comes

Things are worse for others and is a lot better for us. There are many things in your life that will catch your eye but only a few will catch your heart….pursue those…

Let us complain less and give more!

Go to the Top

Technology is it a good thing?

December 12, 2008 at 8:18 pm

The more and more technology advances, the more and more people avoid from talking to one another. Those of you that know me, know that I am all about technology and love new advances in science. But the way that the world is moving scares me.

I recently attended a client conference at the Sheraton Oklahoma City Hotel & Conference Center. During the conference there was a speaker that really captured my attention. He was talking about all the new advances in marketing and technology. He mentioned that soon there might be a system using cell phones to do everyday things. One example of this is: When you enter Target, Target’s system will pickup your cell phone through Bluetooth and send you a text message. The text message will read, “Would you like to connect to Target?” Once you have connected to Target you will be able scan your phone over an item and it will charge it to your bank account. Because of this, there will no longer be the need for cashiers or that interaction with people. This is bad for a number of reasons. If you have seen the movie Wall-e, you will have a better understanding of this. From the start of self service gas pumps to the start of self service checkout. The world has advanced to an “I” way of feeling. “You don’t need anyone, because you are independent and can do it yourself no matter what it is.” Apple has capitalized on this idea (iPhone, iMac, iTunes, iPhoto). All of these products work easily so that you don’t have to. This also eliminates the need to ask people for help.

As a country more so than as the world we are growing into a lazy and a self serving people. I read about the old western days when everybody had guns at their sides. Now people have cell phones. I have been carrying two cell phones for a while now. Every time I get a phone call I here myself saying “Draw.”

I don’t think technology is a bad thing but if it keeps people from communicating with one another that is a problem. I encourage you to give someone a phone call rather than sending them a text message. I encourage you to be willing to help or talk to someone you may not have talked to in a while.

“Be there for others, and they will be there for you!!!”