Today, I’m going to steer off course for a second and get a little deep. I mean I can’t talk about music all the time! There’s way more to life than just events and music.

As I sit here and think about my upcoming work week, (My work week starts on Thursdays by the way.) I  start to think how blessed I am to be doing something I love as a career and that I even have a job at all. I then start to think about somebody I know who lost his job, his wife, and eventually his house. (In this economy these stories are becoming more and more common.) Through all of this he had always kept his spirits high and never whined or cried about any of it. When I asked him how he stayed so positive  he simply replied with a smile, “Life goes on. I’m still breathing right?”.

I’m not sure why that incident came to mind today, but my hats off to him and every other man that has lost everything and has still come out walking tall. These men could have easily given up or blamed somebody for their failures. Instead they march on everyday, and that my friends, is true character. They say “There are no failures -- just experiences and your reactions to them.” I’m pretty sure we all know or knew somebody like this, maybe its time we all learned a lesson from these men. Its very rare that I talk about my father, but my father was one of these men, even on his death bed he didn’t whine or cry about the situation he was in, instead he made the best of what little time he had and stayed positive till the end. He didn’t die a rich man and he never  became famous for anything other than being an all around stand up guy, but he lived his life with no regrets. I hope I will say the same when my time is up. On that note, I thought it would be fitting to post the following scene from a movie I just recently watched.

The following is a scene from Boondock Saints II, not as good as the first one but it had its moments, this being one of them: