Give Until It Hurts

You know that exhausted feeling you get when you are attempting to accomplish everything that you want.  When it hurts to walk or you can barely lift your eyes at the end of the day.  My days have been filled with these feelings lately.  I do not regret the decisions I have made to get to where I am.  The way I look at it is no matter good or bad every situation or decision you make gives you an opportunity to put you closer to your goal.  All of us make mistakes in this life we cant help it, unfortunately.  But it is what we do with those mistakes that will make us better or worse for them.  The people who are closest to me know that I have had more than my share of them over these years, but by seeing them as opportunities to improve myself which in some cases is not always easy I am a better man for them.

The other day I was driving home from the Goddard for Governor Head Quarters and was in a nearly fatal car accident.  Luckily I was the only car involved in the accident, so I was the only person injured.  While on the 60 freeway, cars suddenly stopped ahead of me so I turned the wheel left to move into the next lane, but I over corrected and went into the center divider.  Once I realized were I was I overcorrected again but this time to the right spinning my car completely around and putting it in a dead stop facing traffic.  I was fortunate enough to have never have lost conciseness so when bystanders and emergency officials arrived I was alert and able to answer their questions.  By the time they helped me out of my car all that was injured was my right wrist and that was due to bracing myself against the steering wheel according to one of the officers.

Sometimes in a job you know that there is a light at the end but there is so much darkness that you forget about it.  Well because of my background in technology I am constantly on different blogs, facebook pages and websites seeing what new news is being published about either Goddard or the 2010 governors race.  Being exposed to so much free media gives you insight into what people really think about the issues and the candidates.  People are able to disguise themselves with usernames so this anonymity gives them a sense of freedom that they usually don't feel in society.  I have read great things, inspiring things in some of these chat areas and some things that are pure hatred and rantings with no cause but to spread their disgust onto others.  If knowledge is power than it is crucial that young people learn the issues and decide for themselves what is right and just and do not depend on their parents or pastors to determine their political decisions for them.  We can no longer afford to turn a blind eye to what is going on around us.