It's Monday and off to a good week. Didn't want to get out of bed because today is my off day. But I got up anyway and now I am at Starbucks trying to make it happen, excuse me for saying that...MAKING it happen. I was taught that you have to speak it into existence. Anyway. So this weekend, I really got out and did some things that I have been trying to do for a while ( a while meaning 3-4 months). I had a meeting with a potential client who wants me to design a website for his church. The meeting was at 10:30am Saturday. After the meeting, which he offered me the bid to do the website, I was feeling good and decided that I needed to visit my family. First I stopped by my grandfather's house to check on him. He just recently had surgery and is now doing much better. After I chit chatted with him for a while, I stopped by my uncle's house (this is the uncle that help raise me). When I got to his house, he was painting and my aunt was fussing telling him he needed to hurry and finish and get her house back in order. Watching them go back and forward fussing is so funny!
While I was there, I had a few drinks (lets just say that these drinks weren't soft drinks!) and we talked for a long time. I also helped him paint...let me stop, no I didn't. If he knew I said that he would laugh his head off because I can't do any laboring work like that around the house. While I was there talking to my uncle about everything from computers to life lessons I started thinking. I was thinking about how every time I go over his house he never ask me to bring anything and no matter how much I eat or drink he never says anything about replenishing what I ate or drank. Then it hit me, that's what family is all about. My uncle doesn't care about food or drinks or money, but what he does care about is his nephew being ok. Wow, I think I got a little emotional there for a minute. This is the reason I am the way that I am. Because I am more in tune with friendship, family and not material things. Material things can come and go and they tend to get old and out dated and a new version usually comes out a few minutes after you purchase them. But memories are one thing that never get old. Moments are part of the memory family and they never get old either. They are just a family that never age.
Take the time to cherish moments and memories because they are worth more than we value them at. I had a GREAT Saturday this weekend and it didn't cost me a dime. The only thing I spent was my time. How are you spending your time?
-K.J Swint
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