(My immediate family and those who supported me through it all - one of the best days of my life - graduation from AUBURN UNIVERSITY)
Dear Taylor,
As I write, I slowly do research in efforts to know you,
although Wikipedia and Google can only provide so much biographical information
about any person. Since I always write about my daily experiences, I am an open
book as so many say. We never really know someone until we spend personal time
with them.
This week I have taken time to enjoy my family – something
my own misery in occupation has prevented me from doing recently. Funny how
only on a break am I able to travel and see those who mean the most to me.
Often you hear people say “I do not feel it.” Rarely do any of us feel like
going to a workplace that never brings satisfaction, however sometimes to
pursue a dream we must do something we do not enjoy to get to place where we
can do something we do enjoy on an almost daily basis. Even in your career, I
am sure there were days you disliked what you did to now be where you are even
with your blessed quick rise to success. There were some days and still are I
am sure you pay your dues.
Spending time with Brogan (my new nephew) and my Grandmother
suffering from cancer have each been refreshing in their own right…..taking
time to see someone who has touched my life in more ways than I can count with
the blessing of a new arrival who will touch my life in many more ways to come.
I may have arrived to an active decision that having my own
family may be a dream I undermined or at least saw more as a burden in the past
rather than a blessing….that viewpoint has changed dramatically meaning I am
very much looking forward to one day meeting that special person and seeing
where God takes it from there.
It is very easy to let one bad thing in life sour everything
else, however no matter what you cannot let the bad things sour the good
things. They must distinctly be set apart.
It would after all in this world be easy to constantly be
discouraged in an American society where complaining constantly overcomes
positive speech and the commitments to marital relationships no longer takes
meaning (hence all the staggering divorce rates).
I am not entirely sure those who have the most understand
the blessing of a family because happiness this past week for me has hardly
been measured by monetary gain. In fact, it has reminded me that I must not
give up on the dreams I have and that the creation of my own immediate family could
serve as the capstone for a beautiful life with a country singer named Taylor
or perhaps not. No matter what we must continue to dream and reach for the
stars.
Until the next entry,
James L. Cartee III
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