Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Thanksgiving. Show all posts

Monday, November 23, 2015

Thankful Hope: Memories Hope: Dark Absence: (Unedited): 20 Nov 2015:

All of the hope you will ever need in life, Is deep within the core of your being.
The hope you do have is more than sufficient for any dream you may have.
A good way to see, to discover the hope that is within you. Is to be thankful for what you do have. 
C.J.MacKechnie
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For many people and many young people. They seem to know that they have no hope, never had any hope and never will have hope. If there is to be any hope then it will come from soon to be seen leader. Then when that leader is gone. Hopelessness returns. This is a false belief system. No one can take away your hope or even give you hope. All of the hope you have ever experienced no matter how small. Was all based in your own decision to have hope for that little moment in time.
All of the hope you will ever have is solely conditional upon your own mental decision and emotional desire to have hope. Your hope doesn't have to be focused but it is ok if it is for a time. upon one teacher, one leader, one famous person or even on one family member. It is OK to be excited and hopeful with other people as the hope being around other people seems to become magnified.
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2015 Thanksgiving approaches and as it does occur every year here in the USA. Thanksgiving does not have to be an only American holiday. Thanksgiving should be a holiday for the whole world and celebrated everyday. Being Thankful is a very good reminder of those things which began with hope.
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Memories Hope: (Unedited): 23 Nov 2015: 
The hopes of old become manifest in our memories of gratitude.
C.J.MacKechnie
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 Search your memories for anything good. For some people this can be very tough. Like for me and my childhood. But, there can be some good ones. No matter how fleeting they may be. Playing baseball was good for me. Sleeping in the cradle of my Camphor tree in Clearwater, Fl. The hope of playing a game and of the hope of sleeping peacefully in a tree. Looking forward to a thing is basic hope. No matter how difficult life can be in your life right now. You can allow yourself to have hope. You can plan for yourself to create new and good memories. These are all in your hope. Then when you do create a good memory amongst so many bad memories. They shall always stand out in your own mind as good. The good thoughts/memories which shall begin to overpower the bad thoughts/memories in time.
I am thankful to my "former best friends family" (See Note) for allowing me to sleep over often and feeding me often. i am thankful for my Black Webco Motocross bike which game me freedom to escape.
I am thankful for the short time I played baseball. I am thankful for the few times I slept in the Camphor tree as a child. I am thankful for the few times I slept under the big pier 60 on Clearwater Beach. I am thankful for sleeping inside of Hwy 19 train track bridge. I am thankful for the pizza I ate out of the trash can for Shakey's pizza (Hwy60). I am thankful for the thrown out burgers from burger king in the green pickle bucket. I am thankful for the popcorn at the Clearwater 4 movie theaters.
Even in these awful memories which caused me to go to other places. I was thankful.
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Something happened when I was alone in the dark with myself and being completely distraught and crying into the Gulf of Mexico. All I want is a family. To be not alone any more. To be wanted. To be loved. Is that to much for any one person to have. No matter how worthless they are. No matter how dumb, stupid and retarded they are. No matter how less than they are to everyone else.  These were not words just deep emotions of personal truths of knowing. Even if they were my own lies and deceptions. Pushed into me by the world and of my adoptive family.
From there at this point in be young adult life. That from this point on this darkened lonely beach in Clearwater. I found hope. Even though I had no idea what hope was or was even able to recognize hope as something good. Hope was there. In that time of my life when I was darker than a secluded beach with no moon or stars. The glimmer of hopes light was ever present.
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Note: "Former Best friend" A person such as myself became so bad. That he and his family had to end the relationship with me. It was all my fault. I had become that bad. I had become dangerous. In any of my writings where I include some personal history. Do not assume that it was someones else fault. I was and had become that bad. When there is an absence of goodness in your life. I guess you become a part of that darkness. I had done that.
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Dark Absence: 23 Nov 2015:
Where there is an absence of goodness. You can become a part of that darkness.
C.J.MacKechnie
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The longer a person remains in the darkness the more they lose themselves to the darkness. Until, the life they had of their own is lost forever. Becoming filled with  worthless apathy of lonely meaningless absence. Becoming a darkened shell of nothing important within, with no control, no power, no hope. but, wait. Did you read above?
That is the one thing that I remember most in reflecting. How I started to become so bad that anyone who was good began to absolutely reject me. Shouldn't that be the opposite in life. When a child is in such a dark place that the light of goodness becomes like that life saving beacon of a light house?
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Thursday, November 27, 2014

Important You: (Unedited): 27 Nov 2014:


Happy Thanksgiving Brother.
No matter how great the distance.
No matter how little time we have had.
No matter what has happened or what should have happened.
I can look beyond all of that former junk and see the importance in you.
We are still brothers and family.
C.J.MacKechnie
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I wrote this for my brother as I was viewing a personal picture of his. This is an inspired write for him. As well as for my sister, Niece and those other family members who know not of me. 
I have some cool relatives in some states who do some cool things in their lives. Yes, I am being vague as they deserve their privacy.  I wish I can say more and brag a little. But, cannot and should not. 
My brother and I have not had a fair opportunity to share each others lives. In which we have missed so much from each other. I can also say this about my other brother and my other sister. As well as the rest of my biological family whom I know and do not know of. We have missed out and are now strangers to each other. There is no blame just the ways things have come to happen. which have been beyond our own decisions or even fore knowledge. Yes, I was a secret. Although personally I did not accept but do see why the decision was made in order to hide a potentially embarrassing problem in the 1960's. That is just how things were done back then. I am sorry that I was a secret kept from any of you and hope you can find it in your own hearts to forgive those who created this secret.

Family is important and I am thankful for the family I do have. That is what Thanksgiving is all about and not just a "Turkey Day". To be thankful and to acknowledge gratitude. Which should be done more than one day a year. Even despite the errors of your actions or of others. Which includes those unfortunate things which were and are beyond your control. This is where forgiveness comes into play.
Life is precious and is way to short for us mortal human beings. Life is even made shorter by sicknesses, diseases, conflicts and accidents. We should all celebrate what we are allowed to have with our loved ones. Never hold onto your anger, unforgivable heart and/or other negative emotions in regards to your family. In the end all of your negative feelings do, is harm you and steals joy from your life. 

I have always had trouble with time. For me time is not constant. Time is never consistent with it's linear flow. I can almost see how time moves even though it doesn't move. It is the fluctuating frequency which moves as a linear wave. Time has no emotion and thus is never forgiving and also never plotting against you. So it is up to each one of us as to live how we are aware of what little time we do have. Once we each decide that every day is important. Then so to is every hour, every minute and every second of each of our living existence in this reality. 

I hope each of you can forgive me of my actions or from my words of the past. Especially, If they have harmed you in any way. I am truly sorry. John
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Thursday, November 28, 2013

Thankful Present: (Unedited): 28 Nov 2013:

Being thankful for what is present now. Is more important than the bad and sad memories of the past you survived. 
C.J.MacKechnie
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 My childhood story may sound bad and sad. But, there are a large number of children who have survived more abuses and tortures than I have. Then there are those children who died at the hands of their evil parents and relatives.
If you are reading this now. You have survived your awful past and stand victorious. Be thankful. Yes, thankful for your past. Because, your enduring strength is proven. Even though you may feel like the damaged victim. You survived it all and hopefully you are now in a safe place.

I am today, very thankful for what I have endured. I am very thankful for my wife and children. I am thankful for the life I have and had. I have experienced much and evolved from all of those negative experiences. This is important. So is the life you have had and will have. I hope you can find the positive in your whole life. Even if it does seem like that golden needle in a sea of golden hay. Your search for the positives in your life is well worth it.All of the abuse and tortures you have had to endure. Was never about you. It was always them, those who did those terrible things to you. You were just the body present.

Everyday is a Thanksgiving. I hope everyone can live everyday of their lives in a joyful celebration.
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