A Dream, A Goal And A Plan

“Someday, the light will shine like a sun through my skin and they will say, what have you done with your life? And though there are many moments I think I will remember, in the end, I will be proud to say, I was one of us.”

This is an interesting quote. We all want to make our ‘mark’ on the world, if not the world, then our country, if not our county, then our city or town. When I was a little girl, I wanted to be a fashion model. I saw models in the tea room restaurants when we went shopping downtown to the stores. There were no malls in those days.

 There was a television show on TV that featured Thanksgiving models modeling clothes from the local department stores. I wanted to do that. In a former article, I told of my

becoming a model while in high school and the fun I had trying on the clothes and modeling them every Saturday morning before the buyers and executives of Stewart’s Department store and also I organized another fashion show from top to bottom at another department store, all my idea. I was the producer of it and I was a model in it. The only remuneration I received was that I could keep the outfit I wore in the show. That was sufficient for me.

Sometimes we choose to do things and receive no pay for doing so. In volunteering work, we do work and we do it for the pleasure of giving our time for others to benefit from it. Sometimes, the boost we give to our soul and heart and to the souls and hearts of others is worth more than some payment could ever be. Be who you are and it’s time to be that. There is another saying that sums it up. It says “if you’re your authentic self, you’ll have no competition.”  Think of what that can mean in your life.

You do not have to compete with others, with strangers, with relatives or any one, you are satisfied with you.

A lady from the Perry Hall Patch said to me in an email “there is a cosmic connection between us. I feel like the heavens drew me to your writings, my friend.”

How delightful that line is. It made my day, week and whole years so far in 2013. What a wonderful mind she has to feel that way about a stranger; she knows only through the internet and me and my writings. Just imagine if we ever met, how glorious that meeting will be. She also said “ in a brutal world, you made me happy. Thank you for your kind words.”

So we may not be visual friends since we have never met which is so for all my dozens of email pals.We have met through the internet and email and that is a fine way of meeting and connecting up with new folks in our lives. It is even more interesting than maybe encountering each other in person.

 An acquaintance of mine met his wife of four years via the Internet. They were both interested in unusual comics and she typed that in and he typed that in and they met and they were email pals for several years. She came to meet him in his hometown and he went for Christmas to her hometown halfway across the country and when he came back, he told his Mom he had proposed to her. Then several months later, she came to his hometown where he bought her an engagement ring and they were married in her hometown and they have been married for four years and they are very happy. Wow, what a way to meet someone from half way across our country and you meet, like, get to know and the ultimate you marry and they are very content and they live in Maryland so they have plenty of vacation cities to visit now, her hometown, his hometown of Philadelphia and they live right here in my hometown area. I guess you could say that is meant to be. There is a Jewish word for it and it is called ‘beshert.’ It means meant to be.

My six year old granddaughter got on the phone when she was five when I was talking to her Dad, and she was saying some words I did not know. Dad told her “Ava Grammie does not know those words.” She said to me “ Grammie I made up a new language.”

Wow what a smart kid, when we were young we used a language called Pig Latin. We changed words around by adding or deleting letters and we would speak to our friends with it. Mom use to say “talk correctly.” It was a fun way for kids to joke around and Ava is doing that same thing but making up new words, so everything does come full circle.

So let the light shine and be proud to say and be one of us.

My email is down now for about four hours and I called Verizon and I got a man in India and he said he could not fix it and then I called my additional technical support system that I paid one hundred sixty dollars for a year of help and he was in India. All of them are hardworking and kind workers and extremely polite. So the tech support I paid for made a conference call when he could not fix it and he called Verizon and we were a three way conference call. The Verizon tech figured out it was not only me; it was a great section of Verizon clients. So now I am waiting, they say for maybe 12-24 hours for it being fixed, all of us.

Oh sadness, not to get my emails, no hearing from my dozens of fans, friends and future meeting folks. I can use the Internet, no email. I am sad, but I will look forward to the dawn of the day and the dawn of getting back my email system.

Life has changed for us email addicts, but for the better and we are now closer to the world and country because of our computers. My son’s friend told me over twenty-five years ago, that the world will change because everyone will have this piece of equipment in their homes and we will be able to spread our wings and meet so many new people through it and by it and for it.

Our lives will never be the same and he was oh so right and on the mark. I know my life has changed and really for the better because I write and I use my computer to reach folks and I have been told by J. Umbridge of Maryland, Steven Behr of Washington State and Mila in Texas how I influence their lives with encouragement and inspiration and now I know that being a model was nothing as vital, caring, wonderful and exciting as my computer and my words and thoughts being read by countless numbers of folks. This is better than winning an Emmy, a Grammy or even a Tony award.

When my own son after reading each one of them says, wonderful, excellent, awesome, a good one, then I have won my best award of all- I call it the Jeffrey award. Thank you to who invented this delightful machine that has made my life full of exasperation like tonight when I cannot send or receive emails because Verizon is out and they are trying hard for many hours to repair the system.  For all the other hours when you do run well, I am grateful for the moments I use this excellent computer which motivates me to stimulate and encourage others on life, ballroom dancing and remembering the old days when we were young. Bless your inner workings that make my innermost thoughts come alive and I therefore keep alive and happy.

They say that the “only difference between a dream and a goal is a plan.”

I still at age seventy-nine have a dream, a goal and a plan to continue on continuing.