Love Yourself

This blog is a little life lesson that I learned over the years...Happiness begins with learning to love yourself. This process starts with you knowing who and what you are. I don't mean by the standards of the people around you but by knowing your “real self”, not only the side that we would like to think that we are ( that one that every one else thinks we should be) but the “dark” side... the one that the fires of life will expose to you. We all have a dark side and we have no idea of what we might be capable of until we find ourselves in that particular situation that is especially challenging. Trust yourself ; your judgment is just as good as anyone else in the same situation as your are. Pay more attention to the person in the place you want to be. Trust no one, be skeptical of everything that you hear. Remember that 95% of the people you meet are out for their own agendas (this includes friends and family members) Be able to be comfortable with yourself. Personally I could be locked up by myself for hours or even days and be happy as a clam. Most of all let no one else define who you are and what you should be. You be the judge of that; your hopes and dreams are just as good as the next persons. Follow the parts of the Bible that is God, not the parts that man put in in order to make you submit to their will. Proverbs is a great guide. I do know that if you follow them they work. Following these rules will bring harmony to your life. Last but not least grow a thick skin. People will come at you with every sort of game that can be thought of ...They will say things to hurt you or put you in the same place that they are. Don't be a party to that let people think what they will ...they will think and feel this way anyway so the only thing you can do is keep being you and down the line people will see that and respect you. Remember it really doesn't matter if you like me or not but what does matter is that you may have to learn to live with it because that's the way it is. So hold on to your hopes and dreams and go for what you want. Listen to yourself. All times may not be good but you will have as many good days as bad. So keep on trucking. No ones perfect and this includes you . There will be mistakes and lots of bad judgments but just keep shooting for your goals, surround yourself with people who will help you to get to where you're going and leave behind those who wish to hold you back. So keep heading towards the goal who knows you may end up laughing all the way to the bank

Madmac 2012

THE SMILE

Now that the sad singing, and we are not yet finished with the flower bringing.....there is a semi smile on my face. This election was more about policies, and not so much about the men running for president. I smiled because what I have always, said about society, that here in America, when you start hitting middle class white America, then you can starting getting things accomplished. And what most of white America sees is, how apartheid works.....against them not for them. We in the black population (use older folks) know a little something about that. When it is done against your own people ( and in the lords name), its called class warfare.....being segregated either by color or money, you come up with the same outcome......we no longer have any access to any of the places or are able to do many of the things that can be done by the “1%”.... we, the 99%” no longer have the ability to buy a new car or a house; or try going to a movie. Once most  of the “99%, did not consider these things as being luxuries, but things most ordinary people could easily afford, and could use this as relaxation.....try to do any of these things now, you would lose a whole days pay to go to go to a movie......you almost have to take out a loan to go to a concert, a football, baseball, or basketball game today.....I have been to a Superbowl, a N.B.A finals game (3) and just about all the big name concerts of that era (and I was not in the nosebleed seats).

What made me smile is the fact we stood together and said we are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore. I think we really are beginning to see who our real enemy is.....companies are making record profits, and we are working twice as hard as we ever worked, an not sharing in any of the profits that the “1%” are enjoying.....what we are getting is low pay, no benefits, and a choice every week of what type of bill we will pay this week and who we will have to avoid until next time. The raises you get in these situations is a pat on the back and cupcakes, or pizza ( doesn't that just make you want to run thru a brick wall for some company).....the most over used and overrated statement that can be made to you is, “well at least you have a job”, yea slaves have jobs too.

This is where the smile on my face comes in.....most people are not being fool any more, they now realize it's not the men.....but the policy and the mindset of the people who put them into play. For those of you who think this is a 4,8,or 12 year deal, you are wrong …..this started 30 years ago under that union breaker RONALD REGAN, a mindset started of the “1%” to take over not only America but the whole world, we now seem to be ready to stand together and say enough, its not about race anymore, but about money....we are finally are standing up to people who grab there bibles and tell us we are all lazy, an want handouts from them (while all the time they are stealing every dime they can get an breaking every biblical law that exists). I smile because we got a start, and it is only a start. Because no politician will save us.....So let just keep on trucking........things can get better.

MADMAC2012

The Lesson

From the start I've said that I didn't want my blog to be just about politics and how we are turning the world into a prison planet. No I am about everything, I like talking about anything because “ you never know where life will take you” so today’s blog is a little about me.

I don't have any letters after my name but I do receive an ongoing education in the University of Life. It's the best education you can possibly get. In this school, your grades are handed out to you by the consequences of the actions you put into play. Most of the time you don't really see the grades (good or bad) for some 5 – 10 years down the road. What may have seemed a bad or good idea may turn out to be exactly the opposite of the grade you thought you would have. This is why a lot of times, what you thought was your greatest defeat can actually turn out to be your greatest victory and vice-a-verse.

My enrollment in the school of life, went like this.....I was born in the mid 50's in the deep south.....we were poor, but not dirt poor, (I really did have everything I really needed, and got a lot of things I wanted), in fact I had a very unusual childhood ….. I actually liked my childhood, I was a lost child, because I could not yet discern between who really had my best interest at heart. But when I look back on things it was kind of a fun ride. I was always called a strange child..... I guess that was because I had a big appetite for knowledge, I always wanted to learn new things. But being from the deep south and being black.... well, lets just say these were things that black kids weren't supposed to have interest in. Because in those times things were very different than they are now (another blog). But I always seemed to be “that guy”. I was a little fat kid who was desperate to be in the popular group, I was the kid from across the tracks, whom I through everyone looked down on. I also was the top student in the all black high school that I went to..... so I was “that guy” who got to go to the debate competition, spelling bees (of which I lost a lot LOL), and oratorical contest (I still to this day remember my biggest speech, “i have seen black hands”). I was that guy who got to brake to color barrier in my home town. I was also the one of the big time athletes in high school, I had 3 or 4 fairly big time scholarships, I won 2 state wrestling championships. I've been the wallflower at the prom and at parties, I was so afraid of women and people. I have also been “that guy” who has walked into a party or club and every eye was on me and I got the girl, or girls. The school of life got me fully prepared for life, and not just reading about it, or talking about it, but living and learning the hard way. Its been a good ride and there has also been a lot of tears. But that the school of life,and you never where life will take you. And being “that guy”, as my uncle use to say all the time, It got me into some of the most goddamnest situations that one could imagine.

From my college you never graduate, hell, you don't even get to graduate school,and the only way out is feet first, and who knows what really happens and since no one has ever come back to tell us what really happens......then no one really knows.....

So we are all in this school and we don't know what our next assignment is going to be, just keep on trucking.....hang on by you finger nails.....pray that you survive......because when you do, you receive a degree......hang it on you wall....be proud of it, it will make you stronger....

MADMAC 2012