(suggested background music pairing: See The New, Ronny Jordan, 1992)
Why me? Anyone who really knows me probably won’t be surprised that I’m starting a blog. I am totally into communicating and sharing thoughts and having debates. For one, it keeps my mind active. I firmly believe that one of the biggest keys to a long life is to keep your mind active. Both of my grandmothers (one died at the age of 88, the other still alive at the age of 89) lived/are living I believe in part because they kept their minds active. My paternal grandmother played solitaire, on a table with real cards, all the time. She, in her eighties, took a bus 20 miles to go to beauty school to renew her beauticians license, and then took a different bus 4 miles to work at a small neighborhood hair salon. My maternal grandmother also in her eighties volunteered at a local daycare and still kept up on current politics. You’ll find along this journey called my blog that there are some cliches I completely buy into. In this case: an idle mind is the devil’s playground.
The other reason for communicating and sharing thoughts is that on all levels, I firmly believe we are uplifted when we talk and we share; when we teach and we’re taught; when we validate and become validated; when we connect and become connected. If more people looked outward instead of selfishly focusing inward, a lot of the worries have in our society would not be as widespread. We all have a responsibility to each other. Our friendships, our community, our society, and I’ll extend this all the way out to the human race, rely on that responsibility in order to achieve happiness at all those levels.
Why now? Well, I have two good friends who are blogging, one for several months now, and one very recently. So in a way, yes, I’m jumping on the bandwagon. I’m perfectly OK with being a bandwagon jumper; I see no downside to that! Some of mankind’s best ideas haven’t been completely new, but tweaks on an existing idea. Inspiration often comes as a reaction to something seen or heard, and sometimes, someone else is the source of that inspiration. When my friend started his blog last year, I was fascinated and I thoroughly enjoy reading his thoughts and topics. The seed was planted then. Just this week my very good friend started her blog, and that was the water and sunlight needed to start the growth of the seed. We had talked about blogging not too long ago. So…I’m hopping on the bandwagon. I’m boarding the bus. The journey has started…
Those who know me know how much I love to drive and to travel. This is the start of what I hope will be a fun, crazy, inspirational, hilarious journey where, as cheesy as it may sounds, we’ll laugh, we’ll shed a tear, and in the end, we’ll all walk a little taller and stride a little more confidently. I’m gonna be all over the board here, no topic avoided, nothing off limits. We’ll fly by the seats of our pants, up mountains and through valleys, and I hope to have a few passengers along for the ride!
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Macedo’s Final Thought: Rochester had a foot of heavy wet snow yesterday. In driving around today, I saw a few people who were stuck in their driveways, back and forth, back and forth, in an effort to avoid shoveling. They would get out of their car, kick some snow away from the their tires, and try again, without success. I’m sure they eventually got out, but it seems to me that a with a little bit of shoveling, they would have gotten out faster. In the end, sometimes a little hard work actually saves time and makes the long run easier.
Macedo. Out.
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