I am grateful for being a first time homebuyer at this moment in time and the incentives out there to stimlulate our economy however I think it will take a few more sales and rebates to get this nation back on its feet.
I may complain and whine about my job at times but trust me…this lady is extremely grateful to have a job, a federal one at that. Right now with the current unemployment rate over 10%. From what I understand the growing sectors are within agriculture, medical and of course, federal government. USAJOBS.COM has plenty of opportunities for anyone who is interested.
This week was a tough one with some interesting issues going on at work. But I survived and when I got home I was like…”thank you GOD for getting me through another week like THAT one!”
I enjoy most parts of my job…because I serve my country and I assist with military manners but sometimes man, sometimes…I wonder if other people have the same passion as I do for WHAT it IS we do!
I promise if You get me through this ONE thing THIS time I PROMISE I will go BACK to church….
Hmmmmm………..
or:
Listen, I know I haven’t been a good (put your religion here) lately and I know I should attend (service, Mass, worship, mosque) and I will IF you will do me this ONE little FAVOR………
Though it is nice to begin moving up the ladder you do expose yourself to more mental angst.
I wonder how in the world one survives the 9-5 without losing their sanity in the process?
I have read USA workers are among the most stressed out in the entire industrialized world. And I think about the high unemployment rate….seems like we are slowly imploding.
I am just chocked full of good news today…but it’s my blog and I have a right to vent. Some days are not so bad but others well…..you just want to scream. But you keep going, move forward and realize you are not alone in the world and maybe that helps a little………..a little.
It was hard seeing my little sister return to Chicago. My family is spread all over the USofA and that’s a common thing here. People pull up their childhood roots to move on…can be from a job offer, marriage, college, you name it.
Sometimes I wonder with family so spread out…does this cause divorce rates to go up or is this simply the norm in American society….however I have also seen divorce on the rise in other cultures where there are close family relationships…makes me wonder…anyway, with the amount of stress we already have to live with…demanding jobs and not having a tighter grip on familial ties can create breakdowns in relationships…..(just musings here)…..but does make me wonder.
I was flipping through some of my older posts and found this excerpt from my novel The Romance of War and had to share again:
Centuries pass and this soldier of freedom is again replayed. Sometimes his battle cry is lost within the political wars of his government’s tongue. Their dreams were never to aspire. And what a story can we convey in regards to these men and women whose lives were chanced to have met Fate first hand; of a face so well worn and familiar, as to become a constant companion throughout time. Yet, how we decide to meet It, will forever have an impression etched upon our memories and our very soul. Fate has many voices sometimes they are heard, sometimes lost. From time to time it could be found as Anger or Contentment, Grief or Joy, Love and Hate. And as we too grow old, we learn of our world’s misshapen ways, and we learn to live instead for the tomorrow, and try not to think too hard on yesterday.
I always like to understand, to learn about why people think the way they do and especially with our nation at war, what other Muslims have thought about this shooting.
The ones I spoke with, the majority, are against what happened in Texas. They are sick and tired of their religion being used as a scapegoat for the violent acts of a few. Others are tired of apologizing for what these few are doing. My question to everyone is, what is it exactly about these radical extremists who use religion to justify their actions? Do they really truly believe God condones the killing of innocent men, women, and children?
For myself, as a soldier, I know it is my duty, if called upon to serve my great nation against such tyranny and injustice. At times I wonder if the circumstances behind the occupation of Afghanistan by the Russians propagated what we have today….after all, it was our country who assisted the Afghans against the “Great Red Menance”….did we unintentionally breed these monsters who we are fighting against today? Did our government sell its soul to the highest bidder so that the threat of Communism and other idealistic political jargon from the East would not seep unto our illustrious shores?
I just don’t know.
I do know that we Americans are tired of funding this war…it’s killing us emotionally, morally, and financially.
Though if called upon to serve overseas of course I would go….but a part of me wonders at the insanity of it all. So many people have died, soldiers and civilians over this. Are we seeing the end of days here? It’s a blur for me at times….my honor to serve is always at the forefront but my soul..my soul weeps for the innocents who are dying and when I see yet another somber flag draped coffin returning home to the bosom of America….I weep inside for the family who have lost a loved one and I wonder if they too think of the great cost to them.
And though there are those who rejoice at yet another soldier’s death many more grieve alongside us here for a wasted life…..this shooting at Fort Hood has left such a hole in the heart of the Army though at the same time I know, because a soldier knows….that we will be just as strong and resilient….we have to be.
Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.
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To Dream
“All men dream; but not equally. Those who dream by
night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the
day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the
day are dangerous men, for they may act out their
dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
T. E. Lawrence (a.k.a Lawrence of Arabia)
When you are old…
"How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face" Yeats
Success
Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.
"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me".
Erma Bombeck
The Meaning of Life…is what you make it:
Life is a gift. There are so many wonderful things that we have as human beings that we seem to forget what they are. We are so consumed with other things that at the time seem important but when you look at them closely they are trivial and it’s the little things in life that bring us so much joy. Like peanut butter, aka tossing the ball around with your kids, aka. being lazy in the shade with your Collie. The point is that life is serious enough and it isn’t until others are gone that we fully comprehend that.
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