I wrote this a while ago

Alright. I am officially SICK AND TIRED of excuses. So many. " I was beaten by my father, my mother died, I got laid off." You know what life says to excuses? SO WHAT!!! LIFE GOES ON!!! Excuses are destroying our country. We sit around and blame everyone else for our dang problems rather than take a look in the mirror and taking control of our own lives. What is the point of sitting around and making excuses when you could be out there DOING. Yes, you may have had an epically tragic life, wrought with sorrow and misfortune. For that...I am deeply sorry, because in an ideal world, nobody would suffer, there would be no pain, and we would know everything. Unfortunately for us, the world is a cruel place, filled with cruel people, and these cruel people are constantly trying to get ahead. They take advantage of the weak, and hurt the poor. They have no compassion for you, your neighbor, or anyone but themselves. It is precisely this group of people that divides us into your have's and have not's. There are two types of people in this world, and its not good or evil. Its the people that sit back and let life ride them, and the people that seize the reins and steer it where they want to go. So you got into a car accident yesterday. Are you really going to wake up and paint the day with negative emotions? Or are you going to get up and say "today is a new day, and it's what I make of it?" Humans have an awful habit of allowing their pasts to rule them. There is a REASON we sat through those boring history classes and memorized senseless dates till we went nuts: so we can learn from the past, accept it, and move on. Open yourself to what life has to offer TOMORROW, not what happened yesterday. Yesterday already happened, and you can never have it back. You've made your choice. Now you have to make a choice to either 1.) Dwell on choice 1 or 2.) Make another choice involving now, rather than then. Use choice 1 as a learning experience. You made it, and whether it was wrong or right, it is now a part of you, and you can take it and learn from it, or you can ignore the power of the information that you have obtained. My favorite quote is one that I first heard in the movie "Kung Fu Panda," and although I am sure they ripped the quote from somewhere else, I kinda like how I picked it up. "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift, and thats why they call it the present." Carpe Diem mother effer. Seize the damn day before it seizes you, because if you let it, life will bend you over the table and take you for a ride.