Well I wanted to keep this regular feature so here another song that I can related to, I'm sure I'm not the only one.


Boulevard Of Broken Dreams by Green Day

I walk a lonely road
The only one that I have ever known
Don't know where it goes
But it's home to me and I walk alone

I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh

I'm walking down the line
That divides me somewhere in my mind
On the border line of the edge
And where I walk alone

Read between the lines
What's fucked up and everythings all right
Check my vital signs to know I'm still alive
And I walk alone

I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk alone
I walk a...

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk alone

Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh
Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ah-Ah Ahhh

I walk this empty street
On the Blvd. of broken dreams
Where the city sleeps
And I'm the only one and I walk a..

My shadows the only one that walks beside me
My shallow hearts the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
Till then I walk away!

I guess after spending all this time to find the lyrics to the song, I just realized the previous one also had to do with a road. Hmmmm..... In anycase in a few minutes I will be getting into a van which willl try to take me home. The new driver is crazy seems like he only started driving a few days ago, exactly when he came to pick me up in the morning last thursday. He gets lost so easily. In anycase we were in a minor fender bender with a bus, and good thing the bus tried to slow down otherwise I would not be writing this. After the little bump the driver took off. Crazy.

Well til next time!

9/11

It's been 5 years since the two towers were taken down from the New York sky. I remember exactly where I was. I was in Atlanta in a training session for work. I remember that all the trainers were ex-military. I remember that one trainer was frantically trying to call family in the New York Area to find out whether he/she was ok.

That was five years ago.

After watching our P.M. speak about 9/11 and terrorism, and then U.S. President address the American population, I kept wondering one thing: is this the future we are going to give our successors? A world full of hate, greed, mistrust, and fear. This kept on playing over and over in my head.

It was a horrific event that lead to two countries being invaded, and countless others into economic sanctions. Only driving the rift further between the different ideologies, which aren't that differnt to begin with.

This war on terroism....it's never going to stop. Not because it can't be stopped, but because the ideologies behind the acts of terror are thought to be justified, why? who knows, except those who commit these acts.

The only way to kill an idea or ideology is with another idea or another way of thinking. A better idea, or ideology.

I hope and wish that the greatness of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Theresa, and others can inspire people to change idea's and ideologies. That's what they did, they inspired people to do the right thing. Change the way they were thinking, essentially educating people on humanity. That was an idea. Maybe if we have more people like that we would have a better world.

Fork in the Road

There comes a time in everyones' life when a choice needs to be made for an important life decision, and sometimes the decision is easy, or exactly what you wanted, sometimes its a choice you don't want to make but have, but every now and then you get a decision that is difficult, not because it is a hard life lesson, but simply because there is just to much unknown. I am faced with this kind of decision. A good friend of mine told me about Robert Frost (1874-1963), an American Poet, and told me about the poem "The Road Not Taken"


THE ROAD NOT TAKEN
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.


After reading the poem, I am still faced with the decision, the only problem now is do I really want to take the path less travelled. I have done it my entire life. Or do I take the path that has been travelled knowing the possible outcomes. I guess looking back today, all the dots have connected, like a jigsaw puzzle, like they were meant to be that way. What ever the decision, there will be no regrets, as I will make the best decision for the information and gut feeling I have today. Learn from yesterday, live for today and prepare for tomorrow, that is the way to live.