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My wife has a quote she loves. We have summed a bible verse, which one I'm not sure anymore, into a phrase we use around here, "steady plodding". I could describe it as basically putting one foot in front of the other, long after you thought about quitting, trusting that sooner or later you'll see that you have, indeed, made progress even though at the moment, and perhaps for many moments before, you felt like you were simply walking in circles. Of course, if you finally realized that you had been walking in circles, the realization itself could serve as the progress you have indeed managed to make, and would prepare you to do something else, say, walk in a square...

Anyways, I've had this site since February (ironically, since before I got my job at a certain gas station I quit working at once before). Now I'm poised to work at a gas station, and take classes in college working on my computer engineering degree. It's been nearly half a year, or perhaps it has been half a year since I've been leaving little 'encouraging' thoughts online here, and finally, today, I got online to find that my work has indeed left an impression upon, well, at least two people. That's wonderful news! I think my wife would agree that indeed, though for half a year or so it would have appeared that even though I mentioned this site to different people here and there, nobody saw it, or indeed, had nothing special to say about it to the creator. I'm one of those people who if I see something I like, I want to tell the people who had a hand in making it happen, or building it, or whatever. I wish I had a bank account large enough I could reward people I think are doing a good job. Perhaps in the future. Speaking of which, it is long overdue for me to get another set of Golden Fuzion coins to share with the world locally.

Steady plodding makes me think of the very first post I made. Never Give Up. Sometimes even when we see nothing happening, it doesn't mean we are not getting something done, it just means that perhaps the effects are too small to notice at first, and that given enough time, we just might see a little magic. That should encourage us to keep plodding, and look forward to seeing even more magic later! I hope all of your ventures will grow great and mighty, and that your life will become more and more what you hope and dream it will be.

Where do you draw the line?

Where do you draw the line? I'm sure you have done something that you wish you had not, something you probably still do. Something that if only you had never started, you could imagine that even now you would not have begun to do it. But now you are stuck. You try and try and try to quit but find yourself finding one reason after another to do it again. You should have drawn the line back then, you should have told yourself that you simply would not, and could not cross that line, and that was the end of it. It would have been. Once you thought about drawing a line, then decided to cross your invisible line, you were set down a path you would struggle to find a way off of for your lifetime.
But how many others are there who have so many other lines they have yet to cross? Where do you draw the line? Where do you stop crossing lines that you never crossed before? When does your desire to do something or another take a back seat to what you know you will regret forever?
If you ever come across an invisible line, one you haven't crossed yet, or maybe even drawn across the sand yet, do yourself a favor. Learn this one lesson before you pay the tuition for the rest of your life. Don't cross it. Choose to never cross it. Not even once, not for a second. Because there is no taking it back. There is no way to ever go back and know for sure that you didn't cross the line once, not once. Not unless you never crossed it that first time.
This alone could be one of the greatest lessons in life.

Last night someone ruined my expectations of them. My respect, my ideals about their honor, their worth as a human. They ruined it pretty well. They ruined it for two beers. And five dollars. They lied, and cheated, and stole from me for five dollars and two beers. This will be recorded within the consciousness of all humankind and all beings greater than us who watch us daily. It will be forever known that this person treated another person as worthless, or at least, as worth less than two beers, and five dollars. Would you want to be the person who did that? Or the person who was treated like that? In the end, when all the universe knows about this, will it be worth those two beers, and five dollars to have disrespected a fellow being of this universe? Will it be worth it? But what are the odds he crossed this line long ago? Will he stop at two beers and five dollars? Or is this just the beginning? If he lied and cheated and stole for five dollars and two beers, what next? Will he rape? Will he kill for five dollars and two beers? Where and when will it end? Where will he draw the line? Or is it already too late, already over? Obviously two beers and five dollars are not enough for me to lie, cheat and steal for. No, I'd have to lie, cheat, and steal for much, much more. If I'm going to lie, cheat and steal, its for the big money. Like a thousand trillion dollars. But how many people will I lie to? How many people will I cheat? How many people will I steal from? In the end, everyone I meet, and most importantly my first victim, myself.