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Yell It Like It Is
David Chesney/Editor
Here we are again. Christmas time. Everywhere we turn we are being urged to share our love, give to those less fortunate than us, peace around the world and dreams of a better life.
Great.
But what about the rest of the year? Do you not think the food bank needs our help year round.
Don't get me wrong I love love love Christmas. It kicks us all in the ass to pick up the phone and call an old friend we have not talked to for months. For some it means burying the hatchet with a family member we may have fallen out with. Tomorrow is not promised, everyday is a gift and that is why we call it the present.
I have reached that age where I beginning to fear answering the phone or opening and email, in fears it will bring devastating news of the loss of another loved one. I take some consolation in that to date I have not lost anyone that did not leave this world knowing how much they meant to me and how I cherished their friendship and love. I hope you can say the same. If not...start dialing.
While I am dishing out life advice, I urge you to turn what my parents called "the idiot box." Television has digressed to the point where I find it virtually impossible to watch. I couldn't tell you anything about any of the current sitcoms. But try as I might I do see the news far too often for my liking. It feels like a giant sewer pipe of negativity flowing into my life. Oh but wait, if you can endure 58 minutes of people being bad to each other, we have a cute story about a dog in Saskatchewan.
Our brains are in my humble opinion the most incredible computers ever created. As I sit here typing away my body is pumping blood, my heart is beating, my eyelashes somehow know enough to keep my eyeballs lubricated and on and on. What a joy. Be very selective about the information you download on to you computer brain. You know how your computer runs better and faster if you get rid of a bunch of useless files. Ditto.
Sadly we take our health for granted far too often. Until we suffer a medical emergency we merrily go through life not giving it one single thought.
This morning I heard a doctor talking on morning radio how important it is for us humans to have social interaction, and by that I sure as heck don;t mean social media.
Pull on your shoes and jacket and step outside your front door. Go left, go right, it doesn;'t matter. There is a wonderful world awaiting you and I out there.
Stop and talk to a stranger, hold the door open for someone, let someone into traffic, and random act of kindness will fuel this old world and fill it full of love.
Believe me it works. I know because I try to do it everyday.
Not just at Christmas.
PAY IT FORWARD!
David Chesney
