To Those I Love

In 2006 I wish you all Patience, Clarity, and Strength, the Patience to listen to those around you and allow them to help with life’s more difficult situations, the Clarity to see situations for what they are and not get bogged down in the politics of life, and the Strength to take action when it is clear that it is necessary to do so and not wait around for the tangle to turn into a knot.

I know that at sometime in everyone’s life everyone in the world is giving you advice you just don’t want but I also know that usually if the advice is repeated that many times it is usually the best course of action. I grant you all the patience to know when those situations are at hand. They are frequent and annoying, but necessary. No one knows it all, no one has all the answers, but the noisy mob usually has at least one valid point. I know they sometimes may not have all the details but sometimes not having all the details allows for a less clouded view of the situation.

Life is a tapestry woven by fate, but it does tangle something awful sometimes. Clarity is the strangest thing in the world. When you know you have it, most likely you don’t, and usually in your most confused moments you have the most profound clarity. I grant you all clarity to see the situations in your life as they are, not as you want them to be. I know that my Dead Like Me quotes get old, but here’s a good one. “Stand too close to the painting all you see are patches of color. Stand too far back and you can’t see any of the detail. Right now this is your particular perspective.” I grant you all the clarity to step back from the painting occasionally to see just beyond the tangle.

Strength is probably the hardest of these things. It is hard to have to wait for things and even more difficult to step back and look at life objectively, but having the strength to work out the tangles rather than to wait for them to work themselves out or knot, that is true character. Sometimes certain situations just aren’t going anywhere. Sometimes life throws you difficult decisions that hurt you so much you feel you will never breathe again. But that is life. We learn while we are here, and every lesson can’t be an easy one. I grant you all the strength to know when the threads of your current situations will never run side by side and changes must be made. Making changes takes strength of character, strength of will, and most of all a true love for yourself. I love you all and I hope you all love yourselves. You are truly amazing people and I want you all to be happy all the time. I know that that isn’t possible. There will always be hard times, but we will be there for each other when they come.

These are my wishes for those I love on this year of 2006. I love you all. Wow, smell that cheese. I think it is gouda.

And let me just say...before the angry comments role in. This isn't about anyone in particular. You are a great bunch, but sometimes a little self-centered. Everything in my blog isn't directed at one specific person. This is a broad post directed at all of you...cause I love you. So get over yourselves. Ah...yes...now I have balanced the post...just enough cheese to go with my sarcasm. Mmm, Mmm, Good. I'll blog later.