Last week I came to a point where I could no longer write on here due to the nature of the blogs in the last 6 months. It sadden me to the point where I had withdrawn from someone I care about very much. To that person I owe an apology. I went four days without logging in and while you might think that is no big deal well let me tell you, I have met some wonderful people on here and logging in and reading their post is how I get the opportunity to visit with them, so not logging each day has been a little stressful for me. After logging in on Sunday I was able to locate friend’s blogs quicker and read up. I can tell you that, you can come on thoughts and read blogs without logging in which is what I did for four days, but it is more efficient to just log in and pull up your friends list and read what’s going on with your friends.

I know some of you will think well they’re not real friends and to that I will say yes they are. I have a very small friends list due to the fact that I want to get to know these people. When I go on trips I plan my routes to pass by their towns so I can drop in and say hello. I speak on the phone with many of them and I even know what funnyman looks like because I had a few beers with him when I was in his neck of the woods. But that’s not why I’m writing this blog today. I am writing this blog due to two blogs I read today. I had no plans to log in I was just reading what friends I came upon in the first few pages I looked at and figured I would catch up with the rest next Sunday. Sydney’s sister Bia had mentioned the Ideal, which is a subject dear to my heart in this post Who Are We? and Ellie wrote a blog about not allowing anyone to put her in a box based on their perception of her. You can find that blog here An Interesting Email from a Concerned Blogger.

So instead of walking away due to all the immature assholes who have found their way onto thoughts I am going to stick around. I don’t know how much I will write, but I can say I will try to turn a blind eye to the garbage that has been littering the pages of thoughts lately. I can’t help but think is this what Ben intended thoughts.com to become? I would think not. So in keeping with what I believe Ben intended this place to be I want to finish this post with a talk about the Ideal. The Ideal is simply the Divinity in each and every one of us. Even the atheist can’t deny that we should strive for and work towards perfection. You see we were not born to be less then we can be, but indeed we were born to be greater then we are. The thing of it is this; the only way to create greatness in ourselves is through the Ideal. We have to hold that picture of Divinity in our minds at all times. We also must strive to attain that picture and to make it a part of our lives. When we do we will put away our petty differences and live together in harmony.

Let me tell you when you have achieved that picture don’t stop there, but build upon that picture a new and better you. I have kept the Hellion in me at bay for 18 years now because I have held a picture of me living without that part of my life. I have now upgraded that picture to that of a life opulence due to my ability to get along better with people. Trust me when I say it can be done and I know we can all function here of thoughts without littering the place with our garbage.

Thanks for reading
Big D