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 By Argile Stox Dec. 27, 2005 Well, Christmas-2005 is history. Santa was very generous to this former New Yorker; I received great gifts from Tracy’s family – Geez! It is almost like they read my mind! Lately, I have been reading articles about “Re-Gifters.” What kind of mentality is that? I just can’t see myself giving someone else a gift that I received. I was raised to be very grateful for gifts that were given to me. With the exception of a sweater, shirt, or pants that may be the wrong size (I just go to the store and exchange it for a right fitting one); I keep every gift given to me. Each time I use – wear a gift that was given to me, I think about the person who spent time thinking about me. Re-Gift? Me? The guilt of giving away a gift would be too much for this Brooklyn, NY born guy! It is about six days away from 2006 (plus one second. The geniuses who program the atomic clocks around the world are adding a second to compensate for the increase (decrease?) of the earth’s rotation on its axis). I’ll be fifty-two when the seventh month rolls around in 2006. I remember as a kid – wondering what the world would be like in the year 2000. I could not even think about 2004 (when I turned fifty) or even 2054 (when I turn one-hundred; if I should live that long). Color television, ATM’s, CD’s, DVD’s, fast computers, the Internet (the list goes on and on) – WOW! It just blows my mind how far technology has evolved over the past fifty-one years. There will be more incredible innovations coming, and I hope that I will survive long enough to experience all of them. In addition, I am so grateful that fate brought Tracy and I together. My late grandmother – Shirley Rosen (God rest her soul) would always tell me “that there was a woman out there who was created” just for me. After many false starts – I met Tracy and our lives together are wonderful. Our relationship is based on True Love and Respect. We each have the freedom to express our views – without hesitation or concern how the other person will interpret them. We talk. That is the key and main ingredient to any successful relationship. Every once and a while, I or Tracy will call a “Time-Out” to discuss how our relationship is progressing. This gives us an opportunity to discuss any and all situations that maybe festering in our minds, and resolve them. The one thing that drives us nuts – Individual’s who enter our harmonious life, and begin to shovel their relationship and or disagreements with their partners, on us. It is as if they want a forum to agree or disagree with their current thinking pattern. We are happy to listen and give suggestions. However, we will not empower them to continue their self-destructive and or relationship destructive behavior. Tracy and I have been there and done that in the past. We have learned from our mistakes and have experienced other individual’s agenda’s that can make life a total Hell. We “Opt-Out,” and hope that the individuals can work things out. Once feuding parties think that we are “on their side,” we become the “go to” people and have to listen to it all. No, Thanks! There are professionals that are schooled and licensed to deal with temporary relationship problems. Should their relationship have an un-repairable hole, sinks into the dark deep-six, we do not take sides. However, there is a thing called “blood-first.” No matter what – Blood is blood, and family is family. Period – End of story! It is predictable how many relationships that are on the brink of disaster and will not survive the holiday season. I guess the “last gasp of hope” is to involve others – who were not previously granted access to their private lives – to be indoctrinated and informed as to what is happening. I agree that asking for emotional support and advice from close family is an acceptable way of letting fresh air and new thoughts to enter a relationship that maybe starved. However, Tracy and I have learned that: “If you are not part of the solution; then, you are part of the problem.” The only thing we can do is offer our experience and hope that the parties involved will accept our intellectual summation and advice. That is all we can and want to do. It is up to the individuals who are directly involved in the situation to resolve the conflicts. If they are both unsuccessful due to conflicting agenda’s – then they must put out the “Going-Out of Business – Ending Relationship” sign - for all to view and comment about. On my end, there are many individual’s who I will cross out of my life on January 1st 2006. These are individual’s who have interfered with mine and or Tracy’s happiness, have not called, sent an e-mail, or written a snail mail letter in over eight to twelve months, have had to “get into a head” to deal with me, and those who have elected to just drop out of the communication zone. Fare Well! Goodbye! They should not even try to get in tight with me, in the future – For they have used up all their “credits” and they need to find others to empower and actively facilitate their problems. My own life was almost cut prematurely short a few weeks ago. I still have in my head that I am living on borrowed time. I do not need to spend whatever time left on planet Earth, dealing with individual’s who do not honor and respect this writer and or Tracy. Got it? Period, End of Story! Tracy and I are in complete agreement on these issues. I do not make resolutions. They are a complete waste of time. The pressure to activate and keep the mission on track is too much to bear. The one thing that I will try to be more active in – is writing. I really enjoy placing my thoughts on the computer screen – saving them, and distributing them for all to read (Thanks a great deal to U-K). Yeah, I know – some of my articles are tedious, and some of the information concerning my continued computer experiences, may confound and confuse the reader. For individuals who are actively involved with their computer (more than just turning it on) – err, involved…, turning it on – LOL! Let’s keep our mind on the subject at hand! I hope that they have found my experiences, useful. This just reminded me – that I found a great new program. Oh, well, that will have to wait for another subject article – for another time. Well, that is all I know for now. Err; one more thing comes to mind. I have really enjoyed the changes that the editor of U-K and others have implemented on this site. It is my hope that the uptight decision makers at Google – will once again allow the U-K Magazine to be placed in their “News Alerts.” Come on guys! The root of all education is the opinions, experience, and knowledge of the population of this small speck of blue light, which emanates from this rock – we call Planet Earth! Get with the program, Google! ------------ Email Argile Stox: argilestox@gmail.com Tell a friend about this site! ------------ All articles are EXCLUSIVE to Useless-Knowledge.com and are not allowed to be posted on other websites. ARTICLE THIEVES WILL BE PROSECUTED! |
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