I think most of
us look for fast, quick, easy ways to get through life. Sometimes I think we
spend so much time looking for these short cuts that we actually don’t get to
live.
There are
several Twitter folks I follow that give me slap alongside the head every now
and then. One I had to laugh at. “There are several keys to writing.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.” Isn’t that the case!
Way back, there
were several sitcoms around the concept of family. Family Ties, Cosby
Show, Boy Meets World, Full House, The Wonder Years.
There were others. Each of them had a commonality: a problem that needed to be
dealt with.
The problem was
presented. The problem was dealt with. The problem was solved. All nice and
neatly wrapped up in thirty minutes with at least two commercial breaks to push
the good life.
Have a headache?
Take these two pills and they will knock it out quickly and keep it away for 12
hours. Have a stuffy nose? Squirt this once and you’ll be able to breathe again
for 24 hours. Upset stomach? Sore back? Anxious? Feeling stressed? Need a fast
loan? Your hair thinning out and you’re going bald? Need more bounce and body
in the hair you do have? A veritable cure for every and anything. Just watch TV.
It has all the answers, right?
I’m not knocking
the need for pain relief. I’m not anti-medicine or anti-doctors or any of that.
The thing is,
there aren’t any quick or easy fixes in life. I mean, if someone knows
something I don’t . . . and there are plenty of folks who know a heck of a lot
more than I do . . . please let me know.
Life, at times,
is a struggle no matter how you approach it. At other times, it is a joy and a
blessing. Hopefully for both you and me, it is more the latter than the former.
But life comes
at us in waves. And with each wave, there is the crest and the trough. There is
the ebb and the flow. We grab our surf board and we ride it out. Nothing else
we can do, really.
I think the
thing to remember is that for every night, there is a morning. For every cloud,
the sun is still there, but hidden. And even though the sun sets, the moon is
there to greet us. Sometimes we forget that.
And I also think
that we forget that when you and I have a burden, there is always someone there
to help, to listen, to comfort, and to help lift us up. Really, we are never,
ever alone. Not really. Even though we may feel that way . . . might feel no
one quite understands . . . there are enough of us who truly do. There are
enough of us who have been through it before or are going through it now and
who will go through it in the future. And if we remember that if two or three
help carry the burden, the burden becomes lighter somehow. Doesn’t it?
I want to leave
you with a thought, something a commercial pushing the good life won’t tell
you. Something that doesn’t come out of a box or a bottle or in a pill.
I think if you’re
looking for a quick fix, even though there isn’t one, I ask you to remember and
to pass this on when there is a need and the time is right. It is simply this:
“They
say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone
to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” Unknown
Kind of
powerful, don’t you think? And, something to really think about . . .
Live Your Life,
and Make A Difference!
To My Readers:
My fifth work of
thriller/suspense fiction Caught in a Web will be published by
Black Rose Writing in April of 2018.
It is currently in the very skilled hands of an editor I especially admire.
When she finishes, and I was just told today that she expects to get it to me
by Christmas, I fix what’s needed to fix and then I send it to Black Rose. The
real work of any writing takes place in the edits, something I both dread and
get excited about. I will keep you posted on the progress.
Good News!
I finished the edits
on Spiral Into Darkness and I’m working
to find an agent for it. It is a thriller/mystery
with an attitude.
Please feel free
to connect with me at:
Twitter at
@jrlewisauthor
Facebook
at: https://www.facebook.com/Joseph.Lewis.Author
If you like Thriller/Suspense fiction and are
looking for something to read over the winter, check out my novels:
The Lives Trilogy Prequel, Taking Lives:
FBI Agent Pete
Kelliher and his partner search for the clues behind the bodies of six boys
left in various and remote parts of the country. Even though they don’t know
one another, the lives of FBI Agent Kelliher and two boys become interwoven
with the same thread that Pete Kelliher holds in his hand. The three of them
are on a collision course and when that happens, their lives are in jeopardy as
each search for a way out. http://bit.ly/Taking-Lives-JLewis
Stolen Lives, Book One of the Lives Trilogy:
Two
thirteen-year-old boys are abducted off a safe suburban street. Kelliher and
his team of FBI agents have 24 hours to find them or they’ll end up like all
the others- dead! They have no leads, no clues, and nothing to go on. And the
possibility exists that one of his team members might be involved. http://bit.ly/Stolen-Lives-JLewis
Shattered Lives, Book Two of the Lives Trilogy:
Six desperate
and violent men escape. One of them stands in a kitchen facing a 14
year-old-boy with a gun. There are many reasons for the boy to pull the
trigger. Mainly, the man had started it all. http://bit.ly/Shattered-Lives-J-Lewis
Splintered Lives, Book Three of the Lives Trilogy:
A 14
year-old-boy is willing to make the ultimate sacrifice. High up on an Arizona
mesa, he faces three desperate and dangerous men in hopes of saving his father
and his brothers. http://bit.ly/Splintered-Lives-J-Lewis
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