The Garbled Epoch

What to post, what to post.

I’m really just at a loss for words. Lot happened today, so much that it can’t all be included in my log for today’s travels. It’s amazing how many little things can add up to be big things for starters. You know, you pick up one rock and place in it your pack, and then another, you know they’re just small rocks. After awhile though they just keep pilling on and pilling on. Separately? They’re nothing. But together they’re enough to bring a man down.

To get where I’m leading ya’ll to, today two things happened that had been “building up” I guess. One, that I’ll post about more when I have more of a closure. The second though was work. I work about 15 hours a week, you know putting money in the bank for college and for small change for hanging out. Well at work, my boss had been noticing that I had been slipping up more that usual so he confronted me about 3 months ago asking what was going on. He cut my hours back from the 20 that I was working to the 15 that I’m working now, in an order to relieve stress. That wasn’t the issue though.

My boss encouraged me to look at all the details and find out what was bugging me. We basically discovered that I was allowing the little issues I had at work to land in my pocket and not out in the open. I was hiding them because I thought they weren’t any big deal. Obviously they were, if they were holding me back from excelling in the company. So I’m really amazed out how just little things can add up to crush a man! So that leads me to my encouragement for you fellow travelers this day.

Don’t let the little things in your life add up to one huge tragedy! Yet don’t let them just roll off! We can take the little stones we throw at each other, but if you let the all go at once, it’ll crush you or those around you! And know the difference between a little stone and a large stone. Remember, what may be a little stone to you, may be the crushing force to another.

Here’s to dropping the rocks in your packs,

David

Hey, well ok so here is what happened today. Birthdays and birthday parties. First off a friend of mine had his birthday party today, he turned 16 on the 10th but he had his party this week, and today was two special people’s birthdays, this guy named Omar, and my brothers. So here’s a shout out to my younger bro, Daniel. HEY YO HAPPY BIRTHDAY BRO! Well I guess rapin’ isn’t my calling in life.

Anyways I think that birthdays are a great chance to stop, and take a look around at our surroundings on the journey of life. I mean think about it, how often do you really pause to look around and see where you are headed? Birthday’s, New Years, Anniversaries and other types of days, give us that chance to pause and look around at where we are in the path of life and make sure we’ve got all our bearings, to know where we really want to go. I think we should all take the time every week, heck even every year to reflect and see where the heck we’ve been on this journey called life and see exactly the places that we’d like to reach in our journey.

Well that’s my reflection for the day; I encourage you all to do the same, whenever you can.

On the road again…
David

Hey, my name is David. And I'm a Junior in Highschool just trying to find my place in this world. You know, what I'm supposed to be doing along this narrow road. I believe that everyone has a purpose, just not everyone knows it or finds it, or takes the time to seek it out.

Right now though, I'm resting, on the side of the road, letting all the other travelers pass by.
It's interesting, the new prespective that you get when you're sick. Since you're on the side of the road (really though in the ditch) you see things that others miss. Things make you more easily angered. Maybe though that's cause you're stuck in all the muck. All I know is, is that whenever I'm sick I get easily mad.

You know what's the one thing that I want though? To not feel like everyone's passing me by whenever I'm sick. I mean yeah they shouldn't stop for me on their journey's cause afterall, everyone is sick at somepoint, and if everyone stoped to pity everyone else then where would we be? All stuck in the muck. And that wouldn't be any fun. No my whole point is whenever I'm stuck in the muck, I'd like it if someone maybe just tried to pull me out.

You're probably thinking, what the heck are you talking about David? How can someone help to get you out of the muck when you're sick? Well not everyone who is sick is physicaly sick. Think about all those people who are dealing with depression, and well spiritual death? We stop and help them out of the muck, why not when someone is sick physically? Yeah yeah yeah, you give me all this whole: "well when someone is REALLY sick I certainly help them out" well that's great and all, but when you're stuck in the muck it's nice to get a little tug out of it. Like I said not in the whole physical aspect but you know emotionally it would be helpful.

Yeah so in my life I've felt like I've been left in the muck a couple times. I mean once when I was like..... 15? Or was it 16? Anyways I ended up in the hospital for a day, and then on bed rest for like a month and during that whole month I didn't get any visitors. But you know what? Oh well! Life isn't always about me! That just challenges me to notice and try to aid when another traveler I know is stuck in the muck!

So my chalenge for you today as my fellow travelers is to aid one another in pulling each other out of the muck when stuck on the side of the road.

Jetting out,
David

Yeah, so this is my new blog. I like the template a lot better than the ones they use on the site. Um I'm going to try to keep this a serious blog (well as serious as I can get). This blog is going to be about my journey in life, you know where I go, who I meet, and what I do. I really can't wait to meet some of the other travelers down the road I'm headed. So yeah.

David