Recess finally!!!

Life sure gets hectic at times, to the extent that important things get shelved and just maybe the urgent can be given their due attention. The thanksgiving weekend just drained me dry, every ounce of energy spent by Sunday, contrary to my expectations. I was hoping for a quiet holiday for me and my family but then ended up running from one party to the next...in between doing my best at entertaining friends who were coming over to visit with us. All the work I was hoping to get done was still left pending and I am just getting to settle down now. Anyway, I have no regrets...a man deserves to indulge himself every once in a while, and I am no exception. I am glad though that I seem to be getting things under control and at least one of my grant applications has come back positive. I hope the rest get approved, I can do with some more money to get my project to work, and I need my trip to California funded too. In the mean time there are tons to do and I sure hope I can get my house in order. It's nice to think that the year is coming to an end and though I haven't achieved everything I had hoped for, (and likely will not) I am glad that I have a few things sorted and some positives to end the year on a good note. I can't wait to start on a clean slate soon...there is nothing as great as getting another chance!

Forever grateful

I must be one of the most fortunate people around. I seem to have everything I need...plus more. I have a family that appreciates me, a job that sustains me, lots of true friends, some of whom have been with me through the rough and tough patches in my life, I am in good health, I am happy, stress-free (at least for now), I have peace of mind, I have food to eat and a warm place I retire to at the end of every day. I have a cozy bed to sleep on, I live in a a peaceful country with all manners of freedoms and rights. I am no better than those in Darfur facing annihilation and who live knowing that the very next minute might be their very last before they get decapitated...their crime? having been born in that part of the world. I have so much more in comparison with the rest of humanity, whose majiority languishes below the poverty line. I may not be affluent in monetary terms, but I sure do live a heavily enriched life and for that I will be forever grateful.

Doing things right

It really feels refreshing to sit in my self-imposed solitude and reflect on issues. I've always known that it is important to set aside a time for reflection everyday, but I have never really gotten to do it. Just like I have not been exercising my body, not been eating healthy and missing many meals, not been reading as much as I ought to and a multitude of other things I have not been doing well or as regularly as I would wish to. I have purposed from this point on, to do things right. It's a pity that most people (inclusive of myself) oftentimes go through adverse circumstances that are totally avoidable, just because of neglect to do something that is well accepted as that which should be done. It's so self-defeating and I refuse to be a spectator of my own implosion. I will give myself a time-out, mull over my experiences everyday and hopefully pick a lesson for life with every success, mistake or encounter thereby arm myself to better handle situations similar to what I have been through. I would hate to repeat another mistake ever again, and that is unlikely too if I make a habit of doing things right. Just the thought about the many areas in my life that can do with some tweaking overwhelms me immensely and somewhat makes me feel like I am making new year's resolutions...only, way in advance. Considering my previous successes with those, I'll take baby steps, start with daily reflections, nothing too ambitious. I may actually end up getting it right this time round and possibly even get wiser too, with habitual meditation and reflection, maybe...who knows?