The Dave Daily

Found this on a site, thought it should be shared.

We convince ourselves that life will be better after we get married, have a baby, then another. Then we are frustrated that the kids aren’t old enough and we’ll be more content when they are. After that we’re frustrated that we have teenagers to deal with. We will certainly be happy when they are out of that stage. We tell ourselves that our life will be complete when our spouse gets his or her act together, when we get a nicer car, are able to go on a nice vacation, when we retire.

The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when? Your life will always be filled with challenges. It’s best to admit this to yourself and decide to be happy anyway. One of my favorite quotes comes from Alfred D Souza.

He said, “For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin – real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.”

This perspective has helped me to see that there is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

So, treasure every moment that you have. And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time…and remember that time waits for no one.

So stop waiting until you finish school, until you go back to school, until you lose ten pounds, until you gain ten pounds, until you have kids, until your kids leave the house, until you start work, until you retire, until you get married, until you get divorced, until Friday night, until Sunday morning, until you get a new car or home, until your car or home is paid off, until spring, until summer, until fall, until winter, until
you are off welfare, until the first or fifteenth, until your song comes on, until you’ve had a drink, until you’ve sobered up, until you die, until you are born again to decide that there is no better time than right now to be happy…

Happiness is a journey, not a destination.

Thought for the day: “Work like you don’t need money, Love like you’ve never been hurt, And dance like no one’s watching.”

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Well, Kim is off to her interview. She is quite nervous, after not working at a company for so long. I think that herding small children is a very difficult job, and should pay more. That said, looking into daycare options, that sucks. Her sister is going to watch the kids if she gets the job, but it makes it very difficult to leave the kids everyday and go to work. I know as that is what I do almost everyday. I miss out on thier misadventures and the trouble that they are getting into. It makes me sad, that at the end of the day after dealing with grown up children, I lack the energy to do all the household chores, and swing and play baseball with the kids. I hope that Kim gets the job, it stresses her out not financially contributing. that doesn’t bother me, I love that she is raising our two rugrats. But I want her to be happy and feel accomplishment at the end of the day. Not to mention the current phase of my job, who knows what will happen in the coming year…

Well, it seems as an eternity since I posted to this thing. Well time to dust off the dirt and get back into it. I had thought of joining the twitter crowd, but that seems not my style. Don’t know what my style is, but I might figure that out someday.

I have been looking for a long time (10+ years) for a good video editor on the PC. And well my quest has come to an end. AVIDemux has come to my aid. This entirely FREE application was rooted from UNIX and then ported to both Windows and OSX. It rocks.

With encoding to almost any format, simple splits and joins. Plus special effects, and not the crap like twirls and such, but real filters like noise, deinterlace, and sharpend/smooth. I congratulate the authors of this software for a fine achievement. However they are still in heavy development, so I do recommend using the CVS versions…