Life All Can Live

Being my first Blog, I thought I would just tell a story of my life and the life I believe all can live.  The only person to stop you from living the life you want, is you.  Some don’t believe me!  I believe that anyone at any position in life can reach any goal they want if they WANT it for real.  This is a short story which will be built on as I go further with my Blog.  Hope you enjoy the story.

I was working in my recliner, which is what I do for a living.  Last year I received a text from my daughter who was in China and, she was walking up the steps to the top of the Great Wall of China.  Her next text was saying “how tired she was and amazed at the height of the Wall.”  Less than a week later she emailed me a picture of the Russian Palace in Moscow.  Again in a couple of weeks, she was in New York City playing tennis in front of 10,000-20,000 people.  It was on the television and internet live.  My daughter in China, Russia and New York playing tennis and in New York she was playing Serna and Venus Williams at the US Open Tennis.  That is four weeks of my daughter’s life.

As her father, I grew up in the country, of the great State of Oklahoma.  Closest house to ours was 4 miles.  The closet town was 5 miles.  I was raised in a family which included my grandparents, mom and dad, then all 5 brothers and sister.  We were poor and never even knew we were poor.  We had no running water or electricity, which meant we had no bathroom.   We had kerosene lamps for lights.  We did have gas, so we had heat.  We had open faced gas stoves in the kitchen and front room.  No heat in the bedrooms.  Also, you did go to the bathroom at night.  Well you could, duh.  If we wanted a drink we had a well which you pumped water into bucket and brought the bucket in the house.  We all drank out of the bucket of water with a cup which had a long handle on the cup.   Oh, by the way there was no phone.  There was no television, cell phones, IPADs, or Internet; these were all in someone’s dreams.  This house was on an oil lease, and my granddad’s job was to keep the oil pumping or running.  He was a very hard worker and he would let me go with him everywhere he went.  He was the major influence in my life.  He taught me quietly that anything can be done.  I watched him walk hundreds of miles greasing cable for the oil pumps to stay running, for years.  He was my teacher of and for life.  From watching this man work I learned, nothing was impossible.  You work hard, remember who leads your life and you will succeed.

Amazing to think when I was growing up, we had no phones.  To think I had no bathroom, sink, lights, or water and my daughter played tennis in China, Russia, and US Open in New York.  A real country boy grew up and married, had a family which could do anything they wanted.  How could this be in one life time?  To me personally it seems impossible, but nothing is impossible. 

Now you’re thinking what about the other children in your family.  I also had a son.  He played baseball growing up.  At 11 years old in a regional playoff in Las Cruces, New Mexico he pitched a game which he struck out 13 out of 15 batters.  He was so good but, he did not like to compete at that level.  He wanted something different.  He told me at 12 years old he did not like that level, it was too serious.  I actually saw my retirement flying away.  I told him, “Do what makes you happy every day.”  “Find a profession which you want to get up every day and want to go to work, then you will be happy.”   “It really does not matter what it is, be happy at your work.”  He has a very, very successful career with 2 children of his own and is happy and content.  That is life at its best.

The purpose of this story is to show everybody I came from a home with nothing.  We lived off the land.  We grew our food, fished, gathered eggs from the hen house.  Hunted for meat and loved each other no matter what happened.  We did not steal, we shared all we had, and my grandma helped everybody in need.  It was a great life with no stress or worries.  From this life a little girl in the future was born who traveled around the world dozens of times and played tennis for a living.  How?  Future blogs will tell you how. 

I work in recliners part time now and to let you know it is possible for anyone to reach goals in life if they are willing to give all they have to reach their goals.  I know this to be a fact, not a hope, fiction or lie.  People are conditioned to believe they cannot reach their hopes, dreams, or goals.  This is a lie!   People are being taught to only be something!  Look deep inside yourself when your young and find your dream and never, never, give up on that dream.  You can and will reach your dreams.