Esta Es Mi Vida

Long Long Long year this has been, & much has taken place as it does with any other year….but I think more so with this year then then the 26.4yrs prior to I’ve grown and experienced more then ever. Not all was shared on here because as much as I enjoy being transparent, there’s a wall that must exist between my personal life offline, and what I share with the rest of the world….although I hope to be more open in 2009.

Learned

• Your attitude changes your reality – Seriously, It does. When you for instance use a positive attitude instead of a negative one you start to see things and viewpoints that weren’t apparent to you before. Not to be mistaken with living in a bubble void of reality, or the realities of the world around you (this can be extremely dangerous and a henderance for personal growth), but being generally positive and always keeping things in the correct perspective. You know the “Night is always Darkest before the Dawn” & “When God closes a door, he opens a window”
• You don’t pay taxes, the government takes taxes – The gospel via Chris Rock
• That I need to try and do this more
• That society is rather quickly losing it’s moral base and that morality is based on accepted norms, and accepted norms are based on morality. Example.
• Black people are the fastest on earth (this of course isn’t new to black folk), even if White’s remain the fastest in the water. Better yet, a black man will be the benchmark by which scientist will evaluate how fast a human being can move
• 80 percent of the value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities to take part in
• That I don’t have the reflexes of a jungle cat

Highlights of ‘08

• The restoration of American pride, and sheer domination at what we do best in the olympics
• Google makes a move in the cell phone realm with the Android software, it’s yet to be seen if this will actually be competition for the iPhone given the fact that it’s just the OS and not a “phone” per se
• Bush’s man turned on him…..should pick your people more carefully next time Mr. President Bush. He then publically supports his boy John McCain but months later up and turns on him at the last minute and votes for Obama. Classic.
• God bringing my sister back from the brink of death
• The man beat some of the best in the sport with a broken leg, greatest without question
• The comedic genius of SNL cast members past, thank you Tina Fey
• Comic book movies…..period
• Moving into my very own SPOT!
• Apple iPhone 3G and iPhone App Store – Apple continually releases “cool” technology. They’ve released a new version of their iPhone with enterprise technology built-in including Exchange 2007 (something that the only phone with Android/Google software does not have) ActiveSync support. They also made strong improvements in their iPhone App Store. Apple is going to turn tuning over the phone industry like they did the portable music one. Look for my personal review on the iphone to come shortly
• NY’s Governor smashing out a high-end hooker? No….
• David Cook won American Idol, perhaps there is hope that it’s not just a popularity contest
• Myley Cyrus’ Vanity Fair Photos/Dating an adult – Better yet, the fact that both of these scandals didn’t do squat to derail her career speaks volumes
• The most powerful man on earth is; down-to-earth, trustworthy (so far), committed, intelligent, grounded, young, in better shape then i’ll ever be, and what do you know….black

Crazyness

• You can now get raped over the phone apparently…..who knew
• The 2008 Election. Which for the record started back in 2007
• American and Japanese Car companies are suffering, while the Germans (with the exception of MB) are raking it in
• Russia doing whatever it wants, with whomever it wants. And oh, guess what? We didn’t have the political/diplomatic clout to stop them.
• Earthquake whipes out scores of people in China
• The Air Force doing some really stupid stuff
• Gas prices rose to an all time high, which sparked mass panic and a abandonment of purchasing SUV’s…. 90days later they were at an 5yr low
• The NFL is fixed, just like most other sports
• $700 Billion – enuff said
• Getting bought out by two companies in the past two years
• C.A.F.E - The Government’s answer to the a “problem” that can be easily solved
• SARAH PALIN
• They finally got him, interesting ain’t it?
• Collapse of the global economy [no link needed]

Personal

• Continue to experience racism, but this time on a more personal level. Perhaps it’s because I expect people to act like the have some common since seeing how “minorities” are quickly becoming the “majority.”
• Lost a few meaningful relationships with people that were predominant in my life. People that helped me grow, helped me develop into the man that I am today……Good and Bad. However one relationship in particular that I lost with a friend of mine who was more like a little brother/son then anything else. The bond was beyond that of friendship, and what broke the bond was very marrow of his own success. Life had become such a constant panegyric cycle that he unknowingly had built up this gross narcissistic view in which elevated himself above everyone else…..their opinions, feelings, guidence, input, EVERYTHING — that is unless he deemed it important enough that he would give it a measure of thought or it fell into his realm of importance. I loved him like I would my flesh and blood, and even though i knew his capacity to do this for a long time now (due in part that he’d rarely made a wrong move in the past 10yrs, let alone his entire life) I didn’t want to believe though, believe that he was so callow as to throw away 20+yrs over…..well nothing but his desire to be magniloquent. It showed me (and the others he cast aside) without a shadow of a doubt what that relationship meant to him, even though it’s been a year now it still feels like it was yesterday.

So, that’s my year in a what might be my longest post i’ve made in a while, expect more from me as I will be on this much more then I have the last five months. As always, i look forward to feedback. God bless in 09.

B.Price

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