Brand New

As one year ends and another begins you naturaly begin to reflect upon the past and look toward the future. Every year we look back and we think of what did. What we could have done. What we should have done. We think about the past and begin to regret. Why do we do this?

This day should be about fresh beginnings. This is the time to be Brand New. We set goals for the upcoming year and we base them one the year before. We should forget the past and embrace this new day. The goals for new year shouldn't be ones that correct mistakes from the past, but ones to start new successes.

We need start thinking different. We need to change our perception of things. And what better time than the NEW year?

I need you...

Every where I go I want to see you
Every where I go I want to hear you
Every where I go I want to feel you

I can't get you out of my head

When I'm without you the day is darker
When I'm not near you its harder to smile
When I can't hear you everythings quieter

Bring me close
Don't let me go
I'm lost without you

Say what you need to say

Why do we leave things unsaid? Why do we hold back the things that need to be said. Is it something that is innately in us? Is it something that inhibits from resolving internal conflict? Why is it that when we both know what we are thinking but refuse to say it aloud? Is it because we crave the status quo even when it's unhealthy?...

When that awkward moment comes and we look each other in the eye and begin to open our mouths why do we close them? When the words reach the tip of our tongue why do we cut the short? Why do we so abhor change? Why do we resist it so? Things can't stay the same forever. No matter how much we wish it so. Stagnicity is a change in of it self. Why don't we say what we want or should? Why don't we try the unknown? Why don't we see what happens....

Just Remember...Change IS Inevitable.

How will you be remembered?

So a friend and I were chatting one night, and we were talking about how you would want to be remembered. When you die, what do you want people to say? That he was hard working? Nice? Or will it be something else? He wasn't there. He was an angry man. He wasn't happy.

Since, then I've decided to put a little more thought into it. The first things that sprang to my mind are some of the things I've already mentioned. Hard working, happy, funny. While those are all nice and good they seem so mediocre. If I died now for the most part I would just be remembered as another kid. When people think back on me and the impression I left on them, I want it to be unique.

I want to be known as a man who made a difference. As someone who did what he could. I want to be remembered as a humble man, who went after God with everything he had. I want to be remembered as someone who was always there when you needed help. Someone who always had a good word to say. Someone who loved people.

This is the legacy I want to leave behind.

The Lonely Road...

Walking down the street
Rain pouring down my back
I don't know where I'm going
I don't know where I am

The night just gets darker
And the light just gets further away
What I am to do
Where I am to go

I'm walking a lonely road
And I just get further away from you
So, Please reach out your hand
And pull me back in because I need you

The night just gets darker
And the light further away
What I am to do
Where I am to go

Please, just save me now

Time

It never ceases
It never stops
It never slows down
It never speeds up

There's never enough of it when you need it
There's to much of it when you don't want it

It marches along unhindered by love, hate, worries, distractions
A steady cadance that never lets up or hesitates

It has no beginning
It has no end
It just is

We wish we could go back in it
We wish we could go foward in it
But we are always in the now

Time. What can you do but go with the flow?!