Lisa and I had a nice quiet and romantic dinner last night to start out the new year. It was excellent. Great food, nice wine, soft lights….couldn’t be better. And as is usual of this time of year we started talking about goals. And I’ll admit that I’ve never been the best at putting my goals down on paper. It’s just not something I was brought up to do. Probably because everything is predetermined when you’re the son of a coal miner and are destined to merely survive!
Okay, maybe that’s a little melodramatic…but it’s close to how I’ve always felt. As the conversation continued we both believed that 2010 is going to be a bannerr year for the O’Keefe household. AND, here’s the important part, I’m going to learn more about what I consider my journey in life to be. TOLERANCE. That’s what I think I’m supposed to be learning. Each and every day, that’s the thing I’m confronted with, or is that by? Don’t know. Any way, I’m convinced that whoever is in charge has been taking me down a path where all of the deadends that I hit, all the problems that are put in my way, are all no more than metaphors for the person I’m trying to be.
And I’m revisiting this missive a couple of days later and I am now even more convnced (based on the happenings of the first 2 days of the year) that this year will be incredible AND challenging…details of which will follow as life unfolds…
