Follow your dreams

It's 8:30 p.m. today on this 3rd day of January.

It's the new year and I'm happy to have made it threw another glorious year! In my neighborhood it's the same thing every year. Bazookas blasting off at sound of 12:00 a.m. The rebels are firing shots into the air. While the local officials close in on the drunken rebels.

Drunken women run about naked in the streets. Bearing breasts shouting at men in carriages. I was at the local bar waiting in the long line for my beer. But hey, it's the new years -well worth the wait. The girls run into the bar screaming, "Happy new years!" Still bubbly, bouncing warm bodies.

I just stand there looking in awe, that this still goes on in my neighborhood. Yeeh haaw! This is bringing me cheer. I guess it been a good year -I'm still here today. Drink my beer and now I'm on my way.

Back to the countryside just west. To my homestead where my wife rests. To my surprise, she stands there waiting for me after a long day. Kisses me on the cheek and then says, "Honey, I'm glad you're home." And I say well why? Why wouldn't I be home? She says because she heard gunshots and big bangs while I was gone.

Which gets me to thinking. By golly man, all the noise was kind of ritualistic to me. But I could have just got blown away. Or mistaken by the local officials, or taken for a stay. Maybe even tried for a crime I didn't commit. In a dark way and shallow. Then tied hooked to a noose, secured firmly to the gallows.

As I tell my wife. "Julia, if I were to ever be killed or taken away. Just remember that I loved you and always will. That most likely it wasn't the rebels, but most likely the sheriff who had it in for me" -I'd exclaim. And that is just the way it is when they consider you a rebel. Or any man who endeavors to follow his own dreams...



~Today's horoscope~

Taurus
January 03, 2009

You don't have to prove yourself to anyone, so if
someone is putting pressure on you to hurry up
right now, tell them to mind their own business.
You know what is best for you right now, and you
just have to keep doing it -- at your own pace!
Some people are always in a hurry and they have
a distorted sense of deadlines. So just take your
time and appreciate the smaller things in life.
Those mountains that you want to climb aren't
going anywhere anytime soon!



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K. Rahmaan
Have you forgotten your childhood dreams?