On a Personal Note...

Life is tough, people. You live and you die by the sword... that is just the way it was meant to be.

Haha, bear with me, this note will be brief, but it is significant...

I have come to a few little notes of interest this past week, and it will help me immensely to post them where I can go back and read them. Here they are, bulleted and compressed.
--Wisdom is a perishable item. If we do not keep it constantly updated, we wither and waste away. I have been complacent, lazy, and selfish the past few months. It really doesn't matter where in the hell I am... I have to stay up to snuff. My brother has become an information junkie, and people I work with surpass me in knowledge of current events... that is most unacceptable.
--Music will be the only saving grace. Well, with the exception of God's love. However, in a more tangible sense, music will be the only thing that will keep you running. You must always remember that songs are life in motion... If we do not keep the right rhythm, we get thrown off balance...
--Skills are important, but developing them is what truly matters. Jacks of all trades are at least proficient in their tasks... Attempting to have many, many skills which you are only mediocre in accomplishing is about as useful as having ten different types of forks to eat one salad. That being said, keep with what you have. You will find that as you become proficient, more doors will open.
--Keep the avenues clear. Life gets tough, things weigh you down. However, all of that no longer matters. As the Irish would say, "You have your health, laddie. Who gives a damn how the winds' a-blowin?" When we get caught up in mental debauchery, we lose ourselves. Focus on the here, the now, and the ever present. Let the past flow down the river, and the future be as hills in the distance. What is pressing is what is just before you.
--Calm yourself. It is no use living in a state of hyper-awarness if the side effect is hyperventilation.
--Faith is key in life. If we have no faith, we cannot do any of the following: love, trust, make jokes, or skydive. Faith is the candle which we use to guide us through the haunted mansion, the dagger in our robes when surrounded by the enemy, the very sun which breaks through the clouds. Without faith, we are but ants scrabbling around barren dirt.
--Plan for those contingencies. Be one step ahead of that guy over there who is already two steps ahead. Get them before they get you.
--Smile. Life is not worth living if there is not some humor... that's why God invented the platypus ;)

Ok... my rambling is done... To all my readers, congratulations. You just got an insight into my thought process...

Make what you will of it.