WEll its been almost a month since my last post...alot has happened.
shortly after my last post i traveled across the country to the NY, NJ, Delaware, Philly areas to visit family for the holidays.
Great food as usual.
In a small fitness club in Glenpointe NJ, i met three people who had connections to UC Davis...small world indeed.
I went to a game at the MSG. That place is jampacked with tradition and history.
I rode my first NYC subway. I now believe that to truly appreciate the beauty and diversity of humanity, one must ride a NYC subway. Its a 360 degree experience, all about 6 inches from your face. The different faces, sizes, colors, everyone going their seperate ways but together for an average of 1 minute and 15 seconds. IT was an experience i will never forget.
I might be in love with New York.
But to live there without a niche could be a nightmare.
When i find my niche there---im there.
Brought in the new year in the House of the Lord. What better way? It was incredibly comforting and inspiring to see around 1000 people entrusting the new year and decade to their Lord, laying down their lives before Him in faith that He has a plan.
Everytime i return to Davis from visiting all my other family, i have a moment where i am just overwhelmed by realizing how much God has blessed my life and my family. And after that moment i have another even more potent moment when i realize how i dont deserve any of it.
I was talking to my friend/mentor Flex Alexander (some of you may know who he is) and he said something to me that i will not easily forget. He told me, "the minute we think that we deserve something and we start looking inward, thats the minute we start to lose the people around us". I pray that i never do that because the people around me ARE me to a certain extent. That would be self-destruct. My family, my close friends, all have in their own way helped me get this far; to 2010. And ALL that throught the devine plan and mercy of God.
Anyway, In class the other day i learned that the EU in an effort to better monitor and prevent terrorist attacks is trying to instate a mandatory i d card for all immigrants in the EU which is millions. This proposed card will have a tracking chip imbedded in it. THIS IS CRAZY! TALK ABOUT BIG BROTHER!! the first thing i thought of when i heard this was nazi germany where all jews had to where the star or in some places a yellow armband. I thought the USA was the only country that has given a stigma to immigration. Come to find out the EU has spent billions of dollars trying to get immigrants to return to their home countries. The funny thing is that if the EU had devoted half of that money to actually improving those home countries, people would be more likely to return. This fact is written clearly throughout history:People hate to be told what to do, even if you offer them money to do it. Now that the face of terror has changed from only middle eastern profile to include black and african as well, where does the profiling stop? On the day of the attempted attack on flight 253, i was asked to step aside for additional searching for the first time ever. Coincidence? I think not. Until somebody creates a system where everyone receives the same treatment, regardless of the intensity...there will always be unneeded inequality.
Well my friends, ive exhausted my writable thoughts for the moment.... so i leave you with a quote from the the one and only, impeccable MR Micheal Maddox.
" Play hard, work hard, live well, love well, and stay humble."
Until next time my friends, God Bless you all this new year.
Peace.
