Don't be too...

Don't be to moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

-Henry David Thoreau

Think about that!

Don't cry because...

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.

-Theodor "Dr. Seuss" Geisel

I have a friend of mine that says, "You make me smile.", all the time. How awesome is that? I don't say it very often, but I think it a bunch. I need to start telling more people that.

I am as guilty as everybody else out there, I can't help but think about the past. Good times with friends and family. Vacations, parties, "road trips", moments that were to short, with that someone special, even good times at work. Sometimes it depresses me, when I think about yesterday. The times we had, the friendships, the memories. But, I soon get over it, because I think about how great it was, and think, "you make me smile"! And, when tomorrow comes, today will be a memory too.

People that truly know me, know I love the moment. I love making the memories. I love to share them, the good and the bad. I have found that the "bad" memories make me smile too. Because, I am who I am today, because of all of those events. So when you start to look back, the bad wasn't really all that bad.

Music is an incredible force. I can be listening to the radio and hear a song, and it will make me think of someone I haven't thought about in years. It can bring back so many wonderful memories. Songs can bring a tear to our eye and make us smile at the same time.

I believe there are happy tears, tears that flow from smiling. Very seldom do I cry because its over. I sometimes cry, because of the wonderfully happy memories that I have, and can reflect on what a great life, mine has been.

Take the time to smile because it happened, and tell the person that made that memory with you, that they make you smile!

The longer I live...

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

-Frank Lloyd Wright

Wow...

As I've said before, life gets in the way. We get blinded to what's going on around us. We miss the beauty of the world, the beauty of our spouse, the beauty of our family, the beauty of our friends. The beauty of everything. The beauty of LIFE!

Frank Lloyd Wright was a man that understood beauty. He designed and built some of the most beautiful buildings in the world. He had a gift, to take something as ugly as concrete, and rugged oldwood and turn them into a beautiful, marvolous creation.

Life is so short, it is but a vapor. We see new beauty everyday! Life can't help but become more beautiful. There are a lot of problems in the world, but the beauty always shines through, if we are willing to open our eyes and look for it.

We don't have to look very far. It's taken me a long time to realize it, but all I have to do is look into the eyes of my wife or my kids, or spend some time with friends, and I see all the beauty in the world. Love is a wonderful thing, it pushes the beauty to the front. Wright, loved his architecture, the beauty jumps out of his creations. My family and friends love me, as I do them, the beauty is all around them.

Take the time, notice the beauty, and life will become more beautiful every single day.