Its been a really long time......

Its been a long time since I was on here, posted anything, and because of the time I'm sure that my former "fans" will have forgotten all about the musings that I posted here from time to time and that more or less this will not be read. However, given all of the circumstances that might take place, I chose to still write something and post it to the dead air space that blogs create in the universal system of blogsites in general.

Its Christmas time and, for all intents and purposes, I truely wish it were all over with. I've tried, my friends have tried, my family has made sincere efforts, but I don't care about it. I find that the crowds, the shopping, the traffic, and the general misery of all it together is almost more than I can take. I wish I were Jewish. Where is that boy from freshman year who wanted to take me home to his parents and sponsor my venture into Judaism? For that matter where is the Catholic boy who I sometimes still miss a little bit?

Which just leads me to again say that......we are a culmination of those people who we have met and interacted with on both long term and short term time periods. My true friends may remember that little thing that I shared with them so very long ago about the symbolic train ride that we take through life and how people constantly get on and off of our train-car. No matter how long they share our ride through life they leave their mark. I think of this when I give someone an unexpected smile or do some small kindness for a stranger. Letting someone go in front of you in a line at the store or in a parking lot or even my favorite thing to do which is to pay the toll for the person behind me on the expressway; as long as it was unexpected it counts and I get points somewhere with someone who is keeping count.

Arn't these gifts the ones that matter?