Thought for today....

Every person has something to teach......Every person has something to learn.

It is with every waking morning that i realize I still have much more to learn than I can ever teach.

Sometimes we just have to smile, breathe, and move forward the best we can.

Ok...now I am mad!

I watched a news story this morning about an idiot that is a fitness trainer that put on 78 pounds in 6 months to prove that he could lose the weight and get back in shape. He is writing some stupid book called "Fit to Fat to Fit". So what really set me off is that they were interviewing his wife (who seriously needed a sandwich and a candy bar because she looked like she could slip down the shower drain) and she said that when he had gained the weight he became lazy and a stopped being a good father that interacted with his kids or helped her around the house. Now, here is the thing about these idiots; I am overweight....VERY overweight. I help my wife do all sorts of things around the house, work two jobs, and I am an awesome father to my spoiled kids! Yeah, Im no good for running a marathon, playing sports, or fitting in the itty bitty booths at most restaurants, but you know, just because I am fat, does not mean I am some worthless lump-bum that does nothing all day but sit around and eat. These two idiots can kiss my big fat butt.......

Money and kids

You know, I just don't understand why it seems like so many selfish people have so much money. I work hard, have two jobs, pay my bills, and still my kids only want to go to other homes where its "fun" because they have a basement or playroom and their parents run them all over creation spending money to "entertain" them. OK first, this is why we have a nation full of spoiled brats! When I was bored as a kid, I went outside... that's the place on the other side of your windows kids...(windows are those things that let in light to your room, not the TV)  then I would find something to do. Play in the dirt, explore, draw in the sand, climb a tree, or whatever. Then if I was fortunate enough to have another kid within walking distance, we would find stuff to do together. Talking, running, you know ....playing stuff. We didn't text or Facebook, we actually saw each other in person! My kids have endless movies, computers, video games, board games, books, pets, and satellite TV. I am part of the problem, I spend all my money giving them all these things to keep them from getting "bored" and they still are bored and want to be somewhere else. I would LOVE to be home, watching or playing something, eating whatever I want, instead of working night and day! If I actually said I was bored as a kid, my mom or grandparents would give me work to do. Sweeping, mopping, yard work, farming, or something constructive. I just get so frustrated that I do all of this, and still feel like I am not providing my kids with enough "things" to keep them happy. Maybe I should be like other people I know and turn selfish. Take all the stuff away from them, boot out the two adult-children that sleep at my house and take up two rooms with no contribution, and make me a fun room where my wife and I go to to avoid "being bored". Hey, don't I deserve to have fun? I guess not. Sometimes...kids suck.

Humanity

Where has all the humanity gone? Why is the world collapsing in on itself? In the fast pace of bigger, faster, better, gimme, gimme, gimme, we have lost our way. There are those that abuse the system, have evil intentions, and seem undeserving of empathy and compassion. But, the honest truth is that we are all that person on any given day, in certain situations. I work with drug addicts, societies imagined scum of the earth, but I am here to tell you that I have found more heart, more promise, and more potential for triumph in my patients than in any outside arena. I hope that one day the world will understand that they will be judged the way they judge and that often the best things in life aren't things, but life itself.