A Broken Link

Family. The closeness of it all. Definition of a family, a group of people related to one other by blood or marriage. But what about the other family, what about your friends? What about the family that know you away from the home. What about your related family that knows how you feel that knows your real soul? That's not in the definition.

My analogy of a family. It's and iron link chain. Each member is a different chain. Gray links that grip together to form a working unit capable of many many different things. And families will fight to keep that chain together. Have you ever thought, what would you do? What would you do if someone in your family did something illegal. Would you turn them in? If they stole something? If they committed some act that you wouldn't dare speak to anyone else? What would you do?

Don't just say I'd turn them in. I know myself if someone I loved as family or maybe even more did something that bad, I'd still defend them, I need that chain. I believe that everyone needs that chain. If we don't we spiral. If we lose that team, that gray link that grips us together we can't support ourselves. You see it everyday, you see it in the eyes of someone lost to a family, someone left behind by parents in friends. You see them failing at life because the support is gone. I know I can't let that happen to my family.

So here's a question to you. What happens when a link cracks. What happens when someone screws up, what would you do, can you do what's right by the laws of a country when it destroys what's right by the laws of a family? I honestly don't know. My question too you, do you?

Just Think About It,

Tufte

Time for a New Year, With the Same People

O yes, it's 2009, it's the new year, time for a fresh start. The time where we all say something small we want to change. For some it's losing 20 pounds. For other's it's just to eat healthy. Others it's to take up and instrument. But alas it usually fails, we remember how much we like a good burger, or forget to go running everyday, or we don't have time to practice music. Ha, what an ironic holiday.

Well what can you say, change is hard, even with little things. It's not something that comes natural to people. Even the little things that we don't notice in our lives are hard to change. We call it a New Year, a time for change, well it is a year, just not the time for change.

The time for change is everyday, of every month, of every year. It's not when a new year starts, it's when you realize something needs to change, so you change it. It's not "Hey it's 2009, I'll lose some weight," it's "Hey I'm overweight and I don't want to be." People have to realize that change doesn't just happen you have to try, you have to make a conscience effort to make things better. It's a simple concept, that for some reason people just don't notice.

Well it's 2009, and I'm the same and your the same, but maybe just maybe, at the end of this year, I'll be a little different, and so will you.

Just Think About It,

Tufte

The Death of Christmas

Dec.1st-Dec. 24-- Oh the good days. The days leading up to Christmas, school is out, Santa's back, every one's happy. Love those weeks and days.

Dec.25-- Finally Christmas arrives, this great day of happiness and celebration. Presents, family, friends, all the good stuff in life. The best day of the year to some of us.

Dec. 26-- Christmas is dead. The Presents have been given, the food eaten, the joy is over. Have you ever noticed how that works that after Christmas instantly everything just rolls over. Sure we have are after-Christmas Christmas parties but it is not the same. Instantly afterwards it is back to real life. Right away were going back to work, going back to the normal way of life, it is like Christmas wasn't even there.

The radio has stopped playing Christmas tunes. Santa's gone to be never seen again. It's over, instantly. Question- do we not like joy? are we not fans of good will? Does no one give a damn about the whole concept of Christmas? The damn commercialisation has killed it. All the suspense of gifts has made this generation and the next generation of human being forget the whole meaning of Christmas. God dammit I can't be the only one to see it.

So I'll stop before I get ahead of myself. All I'm saying is wouldn't it be great if we just took a few extra days and enjoyed the spirit of Christmas. It's not that hard.

Just Think About It,

Tufte