(Sorry for the jack, Shoe. Won't be long, I promise.)
To engage in more idle chit chat . . .
I realize now how completely judgemental some of my earlier words come off, and that is one thing I try, stress try, not to be. I have little doubt that anyone on this thread thus far is a person of character and substance, and certainly each person's faith, and choice in guidance or inspiration is their own. It may seem a semantic argument. To me it seems not to be. First, I'll offer an apology for the judgemental poo I dropped earlier. Second, I'll submit for consideration that while self-reliance is grand, there must still be faith and inspiration in things beyond our own being. Call it luck, God, karma, The Secret, or payoff. I have seen to much and experienced too much to believe it isn't there. And although I am not what many would consider to be a religious man, I do believe that my faith in and inspiration by outside influence has helped me to see beyond a lot of cynicism that experience has offered me.
