A Pad and Pen with The Smoking Ace - New Year's Cleaning

It‘s a new year and all the old stuff is out to wash. These are the times that I look at solutions that were problems in the past. It is time for that winter cleaning season. So I am cleaning all my fall stuff and getting ready for the cold.

Sounds like I am re-arranging furniture, dusting, mopping, doing boards, and taking out old trash.

Well I am, but not my house. What I am talking about are my priorities and the way I see the world.

Let’s talk about my priorities.

Well for starters, I am a go-getter. I read a post from Jam Donaldson’s blog called “Conversate Is Not a Word.” I remembered like it was yesterday when on her post she talked about her cousin procrastinating about going back to school. He made every excuse in the book until she realized that he was not going back to school. Well I did that for a few years, so late in 2009 I said “F@%^ it!” The reason I did that is because I want to start a new chapter in my life. So the queen and I talked, me and parent talked, and I talked to myself (sound loony, but hey to each it’s own) just to come up with the conclusion that I am not getting any older and chances are few and fetch. Mason Jamal, one of many of my favorite bloggers I love to read (…and Mase, I never got to say congrats on you catching that column on AOL Blackvoices) has a quote on his site that says it all.

“Life is too short and full of too many promising possibilities to live unfocused, drink cheap beer, dress like your home doesn’t have mirrors and claim video games as your hobby. It’s time to upgrade. It’s been said “it’s what you learn, after you think you know it all, that counts.” ”

I agree with that statement (…just the video game part. I don’t do it as a hobby, more of therapy.) because we all come in that point of time where recess is over and it is time for class. So I will be doing things now with a sense of purpose personally.

……..and as for the world.

Well we are always going to fall short of forward progress, because we still have hole-asses out there. As a person, I tell my friends that resolutions are not what you not going to do, but what you will do to better yourself. You can tell a person “I am going to quit smoking,” but 9 times out of 10 you will fall in that trap. That is what most Americans need to do.

……..and stop blaming other (which also includes the president) for your mishaps.