Thankful

Again, I have to remember to be thankful for the simple things in life. My little girl, my wife, my job. Often things I take for granted. I shouldn’t, but sometimes I get carried away with my job or my hobbies or whatever and I forget about the most important things.

I pray and talk to God regularly and read the Bible. I want to get to know Him more and read His word more. I need to get back to basics and just do that. My little girl is the love of my life and I am daily amazed by the love she gives back to me. God, I love her so much.  I want her to know Jesus, and be with Him at whatever point her life on this earth ends.  This is my highest priority.

I’m thankful that I have a job, a house to live in, a car (two actually), a healthy family, parents and grandparents that love us, friends, kitties. I’m also thankful that I can type this because I have two working hands and that I can walk and that I can see and smell and feel things.

Thanks God…..for all this you’ve given us. I know with You everything is possible.

Internet Forum Addiction

I’ve decided that I’ve been spending too much time on a few different Internet forums.  I probably spend too much time on the Internet period.  It’s become an addiction and that addiction doesn’t go well with the rest of my life.  I read a few things on the Internet about people being addicted to Internet forums.  Apparently quite a few people have this problem.

My problem is that I would spend hours at night surfing the forums and posting to them.  Most of the time it seemed that it was more of a “status thing” on the forums for me.  I was easy to want to be popular and have lots of posts, and post answers to questions you know.  Whatever thing you are into (for me it was knives) it seems to make you want to buy or do more of that thing.  For me just merely reading about another knife would make me want to purchase it.  Good high resolution pictures of the knife would make me want it even more.  It was getting insane.

It had to end.  I decided that I am going to stop going to the forums altogether for at least 30 days.  I am starting this today.  I am doing this because going to the forum has become such a habit that it’s almost like “wrote memory”.  It is just something that I do when I’m bored.  Instead, I should be doing something better with my life like going outside, interacting with real people face to face instead of online, or exercising.  I should go to the park with my family, or get more things done around the house, or actually USE my knives.  It had gotten to the point that I had so many knives that they would be used so infrequently that they would look new all the time.  That has stopped.  I sold all of my knives and we are using the money for better things.  I know have 2 knives that I use and carry, and they are getting scratched up and looking used.  This is a good thing.  For those of you, who don’t understand forum addiction or the love of edged tools; just substitute your own type of addiction.  Most addictions work in a similar way.

So, now my spare time will be spent in a more productive fashion.  I do think to a certain extent Internet forums are good.  You can make friends there, even friends that you actually end up meeting in person.  You can get a lot of good knowledge and information there too.  The problem is that when that is all you do in your spare time it’s not a good thing.  You need to do everything in moderation.  So for me, I’ll not be visiting for at least 30 days and then I will re-evaluate the situation and see how I feel.  Will I be better off or not?  I’m not sure, but right now I’m leaning towards “better off”.

Here we go…