My Thoughts for the day 7th Jan 2014
As my birthday approaches, I cast my mind back to a promise I made to myself as I approached my 40th birthday. I said to myself at the time I did not wish to be fat and 40, so did something about it by eating the right things and exercising. I reached my goal and since then have adopted the same attitude to each birthday. At times I had let myself go but always managed to correct the damage by the time my birthday came around. Please do not read me wrong, I have nothing what so ever against people who carry extra weight, In fact some of the happiest people I know are big people.
Keep in mind these are just my thoughts and having been involved in sport all my life, it was important for me to try to stay fit. Keeping fit is important to me as it goes hand in hand with my personality and who I am ,will leave other people to judge, if they have a problem with who I am. Sorry their problem not mine so they are better off to walk away.
I know last year I did a lot of walking in aid of Puttinu Care, coupled with quite a few squash sessions and gym workouts. However over the festive season I know I overdid the eating bit, do not drink so alcohol was not the problem. Was back in the gym for squash and workouts the day after Christmas keeping in mind my 72nd birthday was fast approaching.
Just jumped on the scales 7th Jan and over the moon, reached my goal already. Just have to tone up the muscles for a few weeks to feel good going into my 72nd year.
Thank you God for your faith in me and allowing me to be me, I know the second set of footprints in the sand are yours as you walk by my side though this confusion called life. Picking me up when I fell and making me believe there is a reason I have been placed on this planet.
My Thoughts for the day 7th Jan 2014
As my birthday approaches, I cast my mind back to a promise I made to myself as I approached my 40th birthday. I said to myself at the time I did not wish to be fat and 40, so did something about it by eating the right things and exercising. I reached my goal and since then have adopted the same attitude to each birthday. At times I had let myself go but always managed to correct the damage by the time my birthday came around. Please do not read me wrong, I have nothing what so ever against people who carry extra weight, In fact some of the happiest people I know are big people.
Keep in mind these are just my thoughts and having been involved in sport all my life, it was important for me to try to stay fit. Keeping fit is important to me as it goes hand in hand with my personality and who I am ,will leave other people to judge, if they have a problem with who I am. Sorry their problem not mine so they are better off to walk away.
I know last year I did a lot of walking in aid of Puttinu Care, coupled with quite a few squash sessions and gym workouts. However over the festive season I know I overdid the eating bit, do not drink so alcohol was not the problem. Was back in the gym for squash and workouts the day after Christmas keeping in mind my 72nd birthday was fast approaching.
Just jumped on the scales 7th Jan and over the moon, reached my goal already. Just have to tone up the muscles for a few weeks to feel good going into my 72nd year.
Thank you God for your faith in me and allowing me to be me, I know the second set of footprints in the sand are yours as you walk by my side though this confusion called life. Picking me up when I fell and making me believe there is a reason I have been placed on this planet.
It is not only a cat that has 9 lives, I must be running a close 2nd. Some people go through life without major issues, some people are subject to picking up bugs and viruses. Then there are people like me, not accident prone more a disaster waiting to happen.
My first memories consist of pending disaster and pain. At 5 years of age I fell while climbing on a skeleton of a bombed building. Broke my arm in 2 place’s, had the normal period of time in plaster. Only to find when they removed the plaster it had not set correct. They had to put me under, break my arm and again reset it.
I year after my recovery I ran out between 2 air raid shelters, into the path of one of the very few cars on the road in those days. Tried to stop but tripped and hit the side of the car and split my head open, beginning to think at an early age, I had a season ticket to the hospital.
In my teens, took a trip over the handle bars of my bike when the brakes locked. Bad enough but they had just resurfaced the road with loose chippings. My head came into contact with the road first and most of the chippings were in-bedded in my face. Major work needed to repair the damage done, now you know why I look like I do.
Started work at 15 years of age on a tug boat, the second week we were towing alongside a pontoon. One of the ropes parted as the pontoon went backwards and the tug went forward. I found myself trapped with the rope cutting into my thighs and the tow bar in my back. I had nowhere to go, but for the quick thinking of the first mate. Who snatched the emergency axe and sliced through the rope, otherwise I would have lost both legs. Left with a nasty gash on both thighs but still had my legs.
In my late twenties, married with a child and working at 2 jobs, the evening work was putting in central heating. Just about to finish up for the evening but had to cut some floor boards, picked up the circular saw. That's when it happened, I went rigid just like a plank of wood. My teeth also fused together and I was being electrocuted, tried to shout switch it off but with my teeth fused only a mumble came out. It seemed to last for ages before I clasped like a rag doll in a heap on the floor. I was taken to the hospital for a complete check, I was found to have a hole at the very end of my finger no blood but you could see the bone. I was told by the doctor I was one hell of a lucky guy, the electricity had lefty my body via my finger and had not gone through my heart.
Fast forward and in my sixties, on my way home from Scotland. My car went under the front and back wheels of an articulated lorry which was travelling at speed. It was not a case of seeing my life flash in front of me, I just had enough time to say goodbye world. I could not see a way out my life was about to end, then it went black. I came too sat in the driver’s seat of a mangled wreck of metal, the front of the car 100 yards up the road on fire. I managed to climb out through none existing windows, looked into the remains of the car. Only to see the driver’s seat was tight up against the metal of the front of the dashboard. There was no room for my legs ? How did I get out ? I stood in the middle of the road feeling down my legs then arms, to find the only damage to me was broken teeth. Both the police the ambulance crew all agreed, it was not luck but a miracle that I survived.
A couple of years ago decided to go swimming off the rocks in Sliema, dived in as was the norm for me. The whole of my body had not entered the water, when I came to a very sudden stop. I had hit a rock head on, did not pass out or drown, did not hurt my spine or end up in a wheelchair. Did however split my head open in 3 places, more stitches in my head which by now looks like a patchwork quilt.
My conclusion??? My God has been looking out for me, on each of these occasions he has saved me. I have to tell myself he has other plans for me, it is up to me prove that his faith in me is justified.
Circumstances chip away at your heart, I am convinced it is what you do after that mends that broken heart. Yes my mother died when I was 17 and soon after my father kicked me out, the breakup of my first marriage, which was not my choice. Becoming a weekend father to my son, trying to rebuild my life again. I blamed God asking him why is he punishing me this way ?
I was angry at the same time sad blaming someone else for my misfortunes, I needed to do something to change all these negative thoughts into positive thoughts. Otherwise instead of swimming I would sink like a stone.
I came to the conclusion that life is a learning circle, by coming through these events in my life. I was becoming stronger at the same time not becoming hard but mellowing with age.
In this learning circle of life God was not punishing me but setting me tests, it was up to me not God to pull through and swim to that light at the end of the tunnel. Yes I did ask for his help but more as a friend than a savior. From that point on I took the knocks, picked myself up brushed myself down. Looked up into the sky told him this was going to be a hard test but would do my best. Never ever got 10 out of 10 on any of the tests but did always manage to come out at the end with a smile on my face.
Understand yourself before trying to understand other people, every person has a story to tell.
Take time out to listen and never ever judge only your God can do this.
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