One Step Into The Future

Divorce, family loss, health issues and just getting older has led me to do a lot of soul searching over the past couple of years and I have discovered a lot of the things that I used to believe were so important are merely junk that collects dust and have no value at all. The drive to have bigger and better is nothing more than a fools quest along the road to a wasted life and an early grave.

I have always loved travel and camping, Photography of history and the wonders of nature is my relief from worry and stress. Learning new things and visiting places history was made are passions. Using the skills I have learned over the years to help a friend or even a stranger are things I enjoy.

I have made many new friends across the country recently and the one thing they have in common is they live life with the barest of necessities. Many of them live full time in their small motorhomes, semi's, vans, cabins and even mini-vans and have fuller, richer and happier lives than my self or any of the other people I used to know who lived in exclusive neighborhoods & slaved our lives away to support a lifestyle that was a total fraud.

Those strange often outcast and looked down upon modern day gypsies I have come to know & grown to trust and honor have taught me many things about life's truths and the truth about my own dreams and happiness. They have taught me to be honest with myself about my own strengths, weaknesses and mortality. They have taught me that true friends do still exist and that the truest of friends expect nothing more and will except nothing less than freedom , happiness and honesty

I know now that the fantasies I had as a child of living with the whole nation as my home, traveling from one place of wonder and beauty to another and working my way from place to place was not just a fantasy but my hearts desire for my lifestyle and my future.
I look upon those modern day gypsies with envy as they live the life of my dreams and realize the time has come for me to take my rightful place among them.........


Today will be a day I cherish for the rest of my life because:
Today I begin sorting through the past, keeping only the precious.
Today I begin sorting through the present, keeping only the necessary.
Today I begin discarding useless things.
Today I begin creating my new home.
Today I begin living a new life.
And I will cherish today because it was the first day of my future.
Irridum July 10, 2008