What You Can't Do

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 You can't keep a good man down.  He always emerges, perhaps even better than he was.  Every man can reinvent himself.  Age is no deterent.  A good man gets better with age.  He's learned from his past mistakes.  I can include anyone here, but the saying is about a good man.  And since I'm a man, I'll go with this.  I believe this to be 100% true.  It's just that there seems to be too few these days.  I could be wrong, but in some ways age is best.  

My body can feel as old as I am, but I believe the best emerges with age.  But age is NOT a determing factor.  There are men who just never grow up.  They are often boys with toys.  And they treat the opposite sex as toys.  How one defines a good man is at best subjective.  It is said a good man is hard to find.  Women will often settle.  

I leave judgment to others, but I COULD say this about myself.  I can be a grumpy old man.  An old man is never not grumpy.   I've learned it's okay to be grumpy once in a while, but it's not a goal.  The best grandpa's in my thinking are grumpy, but they're a pushover.  I think of myself as soft-hearted.  But a good man knows his worth and value to others, especially to family.  

My mid-thirties were tough years for me.  But I haven't lost sight of the growth since then.  But then it was pretty much a secret why I changed in my early forties.  I can't say I am the best now for it, but I much better off now than I was then and many now know why.  I'll just say it's my Spiritual nature no one but a few knew.  

But I tend to think this adage applies as much to me as it might apply to most anyone.  I'm not perfected as I still have to live in this world.  But I believe God chooses His best.  Many are called but few are chosen.  I'm not chosen for wealth or leadership.  In fact, often I don't know why.  In fact I know the why of so few things.  The why I leave to my Spirit Guides and simply do as I feel led to do.  

I do not boast, and believe me when I say this.  God doesn't choose boastful men.  In fact often the chosen live lives that can be completely anonymous.  The chosen can believe others will think them as mentally unstable.  I'm not saying the chosen are in Psych wards.  They might start there, but never end there.  They go quietly about their business.  Most may never know.  If I were boastful the world would know.  But in my case at a few know.  And maybe fewer believe.

I leave belief to my Spirit Guides.  It's all I can do.  But I believe this saying applies to me.  I might be good, but far from perfect.  But I am proof the adage is true.  You can't.  I just don't want a lot of people to try to prove otherwise.  The fewer that know the better.  But it's a secret I just don't want to keep to myself.  At least a few know.  I'm comfortable with that.  I smoke a pipe so I can work on getting better.  There's plenty of room for improvement.  My wife will tell you this.  Today it is my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe with some Summer Night Aromatic tobacco as I drink a cup of hot black Guatamalan coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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