Meaning of Success? Lessons: Conclusions! 12

Success? Lessons: Conclusions!

Copyright ©, 2008 By Odell Sneeden Hathaway, III

I would say that if today were my last day and I had to look back on my life I would see that while it was a painful slog, that I would never want to go through again on the whole I have done pretty dam good.  I feel that I would leave this world a somewhat better place then when I entered it.  While I may not have been an astronaut or lived some of my dreams I feel like I have lived up to the contents of those dreams.

My biggest regret has to be not being able to answer my calling for The Girl I first loved.  But there are things that don’t work out.  I would loved to have been able to fly like super man as well.

I am surprised that no place in this paper has my lack of having children come into play as I know I feel very bad about missing that part of my life (now that I am getting old enough that it is likely never to happen).  But I think that might have been a part of my whole dream of The Girl I first loved and a family.

What about the future.  I see two big goals that I would like to achieve but have no idea how to!

1) Being a writer.  I still would like this dream to come true.  I know I have a lot to say and I am doing my best to say it.  But the problem is that while I am saying more and more I have no one to say it two.  I have no idea how to get published or even to get feed back on what I am saying.  I am trying to develop in a vacuum and that is not easy.

2) I still want to be married, I still want to care for someone and have them care fore me.  I think I was a great husband, friend, lover and I do not want to loss that. Once again I have no idea how to achieve that and with the passage of time I wonder more and more if I might be better off alone.  I am confused.

With both these goals I will have to do what I have had to before.  Do the best I can and leave the rest up to GOD.

I do not think I can end this any better then with the words of Kermit the Frog in his song “Rainbow connection”

Have you been half asleep and have you heard voices?

I've heard them calling my name.

Is this the sweet sound that calls the young sailors?

The voice might be one and the same.

I've heard it too many times to ignore it.

It's something that I'm supposed to be.

Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers and me.

Someday I will find it too, with GODS help!

Odell

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