ON YOUR MARK GET SET...

Another big holiday has come and gone. Happy Easter to all the non-readers. I like this holiday not just because of all the candy you can swipe from the kids while they're not looking but mainly because it seems to be about rebirth and new beginnings. We all could use a clean slate to start things again. A chance to have a redo. A fresh spring look on things.
I'm not blaming anyone, but life has been kind of a prick to me these past six months. It certainly has shown me who's boss. It's also proven that life will turn and often those turns are in directions you never wanted to go. I'll try to keep the bitching to a bare minimum because I know others have gone through far worse.
What I've done with my problems up to this point is to sit in front of the TV and watch a lot of the History Channel. Good times but not much of a life. I think for the first time I have what few have. Freedom and a couple bucks in my pocket. There where so many times when I punched a clock everyday that I would just think, man if I just had the time I would do this or I would do that. Now that I do have the time it beats me just what it was that I wanted to do. Was it to become the next Ansel Adams of my generation? Or maybe the new Ernest Hemingway of the new millennium? Was I suppose to take my extra time and cure cancer?
Got me. But I better start to figure it out. I should probably hurry because chances are that I like so many others will probably end up working at the local Wal-Mart for ten bucks an hour. Then when I'm entrenched in that fine career it will hit me and I'll remember what the great goal of my life was.
Maybe when it does come I can get a couple of days off. Meanwhile let's try to look at this day as a day with a line drawn in the sand. On the other side is our new chance at life. If not it's back to the History Channel to see what others have accomplished.