[Spirit100]

Note to self...

When you're the new kid on the block, don't sweat it, the other kids are busting your chops because their afraid of what they do not know. You'll be teaching them and their kids how to hit a baseball, swim, and play football before they know it.

Embrace lakes, rivers, streams, and oceans....they ground you and make you happy although in your early 20's you will literally fight or not for your life in a river in greater cincinnati. This will be Gods way of getting your attention and refocusing your priorities.

When the kid from another race stabs you in the back with a pencil in Kinders garden....don't sweat it...your blessed with many gifts including forgiveness....you'll have many friends from all races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

When the high schoolers tempt you with drugs, drink, and going against your parents word, kindly decline...they couldn't convince their peers...why are they trying to convince a middle schooler?

Make time to study...there's plenty of time for sports, tv and women when you're older. Academic success in middle, high school, and college is paramount to career success. Although your parents may have been too busy to help you, id an interest in hs. Start looking for what interests you: do you work well in a team, or alone, do you delegate well, do you read people well, can you tolerate others bs. Are you analytical or creative?

Envision going to work and enjoying work... a few are blessed to do so. When you marry. Find someone who makes you smile and challenges you to be better a person and vice versa. Life is going to throw you curves...you need to make sure you have a great teammate to help navigate.

When parents, siblings, friends, spouses pass you need to make time to grieve, cry, surround yourself with people who care and love you. Key being people who love you. When you wake up one morning and you aren't surrounded by those folks....time to re-direct.

I tell you that to tell you this...you are a blessed child of God whose parents worked hard to guide you, love you, and put you on a good foot. And even though they divorced when you were in 3rd grade you had nothing to do with it. And thankfully you made peace with that once you where old enough to have your own relationships.

You'll learn from parents divorce and find a good teammate to build your own team with. Which you will do before age 40.

I can go on and on BGR but you get the idea.....we know each other by avatars and signatures.....share your knowledge and right a note to self... you may change a life for the better.

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