Steppenwolf ~ It's Never To Late.flv

Have you ever felt like your life was heading in the wrong direction and suddenly given circumstances or on your own, you changed course?  The path you were following was taking you, where you didn't want to be. 

Reflections of your life(or someone else's), passed through your mind.  The ending wasn't what you ultimately wanted it to become.  You could suddenly see the bigger picture. 
How about finding yourself in a life-changing situation, maybe even life/death?  The difference between being whole, and losing part of you (physically or mentally) that being an accident, injury. Sickness or divorce.  (I have)  Look around you in the world (you know) today.
Tell me; why do some suffer so much? and yet, some seem to have a flawless life?

  

Why do some hunger more than others; while some have more than enough?

Not every question seems to have a clear answer.  Not every problem, can a solution be found.  If there is no solution; well there simply is no problem.

How does an individual begin with nothing in life.  Living once in the gutters of  a place they called home/survival; or in some area in between.  They rise up from that poverty and struggle, and live like a king(queen)?  How is that even possible, for any one individual, to achieve or gain so much in life?  Or remain an unknown, like the stars in the sky.  

They are driven! Those individuals had nothing else to lose and as long as they had a breathe in them; they fought on in their pursuit!

 With the technology of today, you can learn of several, that had the toughest of beginnings; later to flourish in life. (current UVU president Astrid S. Tuminez) is one example.  Many came from the unknown, to center stage in life. 

 Is it all based on chance? A roll of the dice?

Tell me, who is really in control? Who's guiding your life?  Are you a leaf on a pond, or as a ship on the ocean?  Can you change the direction of your life?
You're not the only one that has struggled, stumbled or suffered and fell.  You may be one that just gave up, too soon.  Expected to much from something, you were never entitled to from the beginning.

  So what is the difference between then and now?  That's for YOU to decide.

  Let me ask you; you're still breathing and very much alive?  Then what other excuses have you, if you haven't changed your life?   Is it by chance that you've survived or do you think; is it just not your time?  Look at the "in between"  empty what is full and fill that which is empty!  

Life; Think about it

When I was a young boy, I didn't take life to seriously.
 I just wanted to enjoy being where I was at the time.
  Imagination running wild!  Roaming free and doing whatever I thought to do, whether there was consequence or not.
  Taking chances and sometimes testing boundaries.  I still knew right from wrong however.
 Sometimes I orchestrated things to shift blame away from myself.  Clever and intuitive I was; but the conscience remained intact.
You realize as the years go by, how important it is to be responsible for your actions. "Man up," as they say.  Some of us need examples to be structured and molded after.  (Discipline and guidance along the way.) 

 It is something lacking far more today than when I was a young boy in the 80's.
 To many distractions and excuses these days to not parent, properly. 

 Sacrifices must be made and time is essential to make it all work effectively.

We all thought that parent's that smoked or often drank alcohol was bad; which it indeed is but they were still capable of, and actually followed through with parental structuring. 

Discipline was a little harsh,  although effective!   Maybe wasn't the best of times but it was parenting in a sense; better than those constantly distracted with the phones of today.

 Today, with the phones and all the social media or games; let alone the work they are doing away from home. There is little or no attention being given directly, as a result.  Their time, is far too important to actually engage as parents.

  So you have children growing up and being  baby-sat,  by that very distraction that consumes the parent's time!  No imagination or even the slightest tolerance for boredom for most children.  Where do you think all the anxiety comes from as a result?  (Certainly there are exceptions to the parents I just mentioned)

They cannot handle time, without something stimulating occurring.  Gradually over the years, we were introduced to these distractions(to include vehicle dvd players) so that a reliance or dependency developed.

  Convenient, it may have been but the long-term affect was destructive to the young minds as they matured through age.
Cause and effect; today the solution is prescribed drugs that we never before relied so much upon.  What a weak, weak  society we are raising our children in.  Dangerous for our future, no matter how they attempt to make it seem; so much better and convenient for our fast paced, daily lives we live.

If you want the answers to reverse most of what is already occurring; just look back on your own childhood and structuring.  Go back to the days before cell phones, video games and WiFi access.
Carefully plan and reconstruct your household or individual life so that you see these new technologies as tools, only used when necessary.  Not obsessive or mandatory in the everyday life you're living in.
Seem impossible? If you say so; You're not in control of much are you?   Your privacy is gradually deteriorating (more and more) with each passing year.  Get the bigger picture in life!
Slow down, and take away all the expectations you feel are placed upon you.                                       
Surviving, is first and foremost!
  

Don't plan too far into the future; only as far as you can manage.  You're not there, til you're there!