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12/31/2011 7:12 am

My Year in Review

Doubtful Sound at Sunrise-New Zealand- Photographer: Mark Hong

As I sit here looking back over the past year all I can say is that it has been blessed.
I was blessed to travel to new places, blessed to have seen wondrous beautiful things, blessed to have finally spent one entire year that was full of love and laughter, without the fear of finding myself once again homeless. I have been blessed to have made many new friends; I have been blessed with beautiful healthy families that, while flawed as we all are, are perfectly beautiful to me. It has been one of the finest years of my life.
I could sit here and complain long and loud about my health, about the lack of employment, about the lack of health care. But since I am the person I am, I choose not to dwell on such things. Most of these things will remedy themselves in time anyways and there is little to nothing at all I can do to change that which has already been set in motion.
I think, at least in my part of the world, that human beings are their own worst enemies. We sit and fret ourselves into an abysmal state over things that have only a transitory influence in our lives. We let keeping up with the Jones' distract our attention from all the good we have been blessed with. We allow he said-she said drama destroy our happiness. We allow dreams of revenge and hatred to eat us alive from the inside out, while failing to see that for every hater we have in our lives we have at least one real friend who is always there for us.
I look at people in other places, people who are truly starving, people who are suffering the ravages of war, famine, and drought. I read stories of people who have become slaves to drugs, alcohol, and other addictions. I see news reports of women and sold into slavery, beaten, and abused; and I realize that my life has been truly blessed.
I have had my hard times, I have suffered losses but all in all, my life has been blessed. So this past year I chose to be grateful for all the wonder and good that I have known through my lifetime. Since making this choice, I have been happier and more at peace than I have ever been in my whole life.
Even in those times I was homeless, I never went hungry, I always had a friend with a shower and a hot meal, and my stalwart little mutts have given me companionship and love.
My health, meh, it's a roller coaster ride. I have good days and I have bad days, but even on the bad days, if I look for it I find something good, something to be happy about.
My resolution last year was to make these choices. I can say that while once in a while life snuck up and bit me in the ass, overall I stuck to that resolution. It was a good choice on my part.
So as I enter into this coming year, my only resolution is going to be to continue on this same course. To try to give happiness to those whom I can, to try to be a friend to any who seek to be my friend, and to love those who love me with all I am.
So to all who read this, I hope this coming year finds you in the best of health, surrounded by love, housed, fed and warm with eyes full of wonder at the beauty of the world.

Happy New Year, Ya’ll.

"Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him."
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

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