You know, it's funny how it works when you choose to fly to a Paradise vacation spot. If you are airplane challenged as I am, you spend 2 days worrying about getting on the plane and which alcohol will be your tranquilizer. Once you get there it is like a 40 Pound weight lifted off your chest. By the third day you are starting to relax and by the fourth day, it is time to start to get pumped up to get back on the plane for the return trip. Is all of this nervousness really worth going? You're darn right.
If we are so affraid to go somewhere because of what might happen, we would never leave our house. You might as well barricade yourself in and have the grocery delivery drop you food into a reverse airflow entryway. So to all of you would be travelers out there I say DO IT!
The whole thing about life is to experience and embrace it because tomorrow is definitely not a certainty.
Flying is the safest means of travel by far. It is just when something does happen, the whole world hears about it. No one hears about the thousands that die on the highway each day. No one hears about the 36,000 people who die from the flu every season.
So let loose and enjoy getting away to see how the other half lives. But above all, embrace it as one of the perks of life.
John
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
The importance of family
You know, there is no one in this life that will stand by a person like family. The world is made up of all kinds of people. I would have to say mostly good people from all races, languages and countries. Those who say that people are basically bad do not know one thing about humans. Everyone has two things in their personality when they are born. The desire to be a good person to others and the desire to survive. It is built into our basic DNA.
I want to go on record as saying I am fortunate enough to have the best family a person could ever have, or ever hope for. I have a loving wife whom I would definitely take a bullet for if I had to. I have three beautiful, intelligent and loving daughters whom I am very proud of, not to mention three wonderful grandchildren and a fourth to be here by the end of June. I also have two of the most caring and well rounded son-in-laws that a person could ever want. I have the best cousins in California and San Antonio that one could hope for. Finally, I have great brother-in-laws. In the category of being blessed, I am a saint.
This old world (society) can stomp on your face, tear you up or wail on your spirit but when the chips are down, family will do whatever is necessary to ensure you are okay. So I say with all of my heart, thank you family for being my family.
A hundred years from now when we are all gone, it will be family that remembers that you were once a soul on this earth living and loving and doing all of the things you were meant to do.
The sad thing about today is the fact that when someone gets so depressed that they feel like taking their own life, they have to take a half a dozen people with them. This is a terrible thing and should not continue if we are going to survive in the future. The fact that people get like that tells me that we lack the support system as humans to drag people out of these holes they have dug themselves in. It is all about "me" in this society and the heck with the other person. What is the world going to come to? I'd like to think that it will always be a good place as people wake the hell up and remember, you are not the only one sharing this planet. We Americans take so much for granted it is not even funny. A child in a third world country starving to death can get us to say "that is terrible" but it cannot get us to reach in our pockets and try to help them. Out of sight, out of mind sort of thing.
But basically people are good and I am glad to be a part of this world and look forward to being a part for many years to come. But I wouldn't be near the person I am today without my family.
Thanks for listening
I want to go on record as saying I am fortunate enough to have the best family a person could ever have, or ever hope for. I have a loving wife whom I would definitely take a bullet for if I had to. I have three beautiful, intelligent and loving daughters whom I am very proud of, not to mention three wonderful grandchildren and a fourth to be here by the end of June. I also have two of the most caring and well rounded son-in-laws that a person could ever want. I have the best cousins in California and San Antonio that one could hope for. Finally, I have great brother-in-laws. In the category of being blessed, I am a saint.
This old world (society) can stomp on your face, tear you up or wail on your spirit but when the chips are down, family will do whatever is necessary to ensure you are okay. So I say with all of my heart, thank you family for being my family.
A hundred years from now when we are all gone, it will be family that remembers that you were once a soul on this earth living and loving and doing all of the things you were meant to do.
The sad thing about today is the fact that when someone gets so depressed that they feel like taking their own life, they have to take a half a dozen people with them. This is a terrible thing and should not continue if we are going to survive in the future. The fact that people get like that tells me that we lack the support system as humans to drag people out of these holes they have dug themselves in. It is all about "me" in this society and the heck with the other person. What is the world going to come to? I'd like to think that it will always be a good place as people wake the hell up and remember, you are not the only one sharing this planet. We Americans take so much for granted it is not even funny. A child in a third world country starving to death can get us to say "that is terrible" but it cannot get us to reach in our pockets and try to help them. Out of sight, out of mind sort of thing.
But basically people are good and I am glad to be a part of this world and look forward to being a part for many years to come. But I wouldn't be near the person I am today without my family.
Thanks for listening
Monday, April 13, 2009
Waiting for retirement
Will retirement ever come? I hope so since the alternative is not of my liking. You know, I think life is completely reversed from the way it should be. You work your butt off all of your life and by the time you can travel and see the world you are too darn old to enjoy it the way it was supposed to be. I think we should figure out how to get our money up front (sort of an advanced salary for twenty years. After we have traveled for twenty years and seen the world, we can get us a nice little cabin on the lake somewhere and find our artistic side and do our thing. We all have an artistic side, some of us find it but a lot of us don't even know we possess it. So what will I do in a couple of years when I hang up the work apron?
Well, I do have a plan because I, for one, know that if you just stop doing everything and think you are going to sit and watch the birds or something like that, you will end up going star raving mad. Human beings are born to interact with other humans. That is why we have a brain and a mouth.
My plan is simple. I plan to do a lot of writing about subjects that I have always wanted to write about. I simply love to write and it fullfills me in a way that nothing else can, with the exception of my wife and daughters and grand children, present and future. They are the most important thing that has ever happened to me.
I already have a war/love novel out. I also have a murder mystery and the sequel to it out. My last book is a wagon train adventure set in 1868. I have two books coming that will be my best work yet. "Winds of chance" is set in current time in Martha's Vinyard. It is about young people with the world at their feet. The book after that is titled "Hilltop Manor" and will be a historical fiction book about a family who own a thriving cotton plantation in Savannah, Georgia in late 1861. The civil war comes along and turns the family upside down.
I will never stop writing as long a I live because I write for me and people who need to escape into the world of fiction. If I can make one person in this world happy and a better person through my writing, I will have done my thing.
You know, we enter this world and are automatically drilled that material things are all that matter. Well, the matters of the soul are the real things that matter in this world. You are hear a millisecond in time compared to the big picture. A wise person once said it is not the two dates that are associated with a persons life (Birth-death) but what you do with the time in between.
There are so many talented writers out there that are never discovered because they lack the funds to get their profile out there. That is a shame because the world deserves good literature and are being deprived. The major publishers are as bad as the music business. If you are not at the right place at the right time, you will be destined to roam the unabscure world forever, no matter how good your book is.
All we can do is to keep trying each year and by all means keep writing because what is in our minds must come out in the form of the written word or we will explode.
Thanks for listening.
www.johnhachmann.com
Well, I do have a plan because I, for one, know that if you just stop doing everything and think you are going to sit and watch the birds or something like that, you will end up going star raving mad. Human beings are born to interact with other humans. That is why we have a brain and a mouth.
My plan is simple. I plan to do a lot of writing about subjects that I have always wanted to write about. I simply love to write and it fullfills me in a way that nothing else can, with the exception of my wife and daughters and grand children, present and future. They are the most important thing that has ever happened to me.
I already have a war/love novel out. I also have a murder mystery and the sequel to it out. My last book is a wagon train adventure set in 1868. I have two books coming that will be my best work yet. "Winds of chance" is set in current time in Martha's Vinyard. It is about young people with the world at their feet. The book after that is titled "Hilltop Manor" and will be a historical fiction book about a family who own a thriving cotton plantation in Savannah, Georgia in late 1861. The civil war comes along and turns the family upside down.
I will never stop writing as long a I live because I write for me and people who need to escape into the world of fiction. If I can make one person in this world happy and a better person through my writing, I will have done my thing.
You know, we enter this world and are automatically drilled that material things are all that matter. Well, the matters of the soul are the real things that matter in this world. You are hear a millisecond in time compared to the big picture. A wise person once said it is not the two dates that are associated with a persons life (Birth-death) but what you do with the time in between.
There are so many talented writers out there that are never discovered because they lack the funds to get their profile out there. That is a shame because the world deserves good literature and are being deprived. The major publishers are as bad as the music business. If you are not at the right place at the right time, you will be destined to roam the unabscure world forever, no matter how good your book is.
All we can do is to keep trying each year and by all means keep writing because what is in our minds must come out in the form of the written word or we will explode.
Thanks for listening.
www.johnhachmann.com
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