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Life & Events > Don't Ask Why--just Be and Do
 

Don't Ask Why--just Be and Do

The reason for the title of this post is due to a conversation I
had this afternoon with a resident I met at the mail boxes. I didn't
know him, haven't seen him before, so I said hello and asked:

(Me) "How are you doing?"
(Him) Mumbling, "Bad. Blah. Ugh." or something like that.
(Me) "As long as you are awake and alive you have nothing to complain about."
(Him) "I keep n asking myself why I am?"
(Me) "Don't ask why--just be and do."
I
don't understand people like that. How, why, do they keep getting up
every day if they can't/won't/don't appreciate every day they get. I
certainly do. I had just come back from shopping and had a box of
cookies (shhhhhh) so I took them out, handed them to him, said, "Enjoy,"
and left. I hope for how ever long the cookies last he knows why he
woke up today and why he is alive!

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I
dropped Allen off at the airport on Thursday as he is going to see his
grand-kids for their birthday--and his. He was born on the 18th and his
twin grandsons on the 16! Unless you haven't been without a car, after
years of having one, you don't know the freedom I feel in being able to
use his car for 13 days whether I go anywhere or not. Just knowing I can
GO when I want is enough!!

   

Talking
about cars this belongs to one of the 'poor' residents who live here.
He probably pays the garage more per month than his rents
is!                                       

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This
was in the mail yesterday--a check for $4.93--it is a royalty for a
book I wrote 6,7 years ago--you never know when what you did yesterday
will pay off today--keep on doing and going!

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I thought I lost him but the stalker is back again!!

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As Mae said:


posted on June 7, 2012 6:20 PM ()

Comments:

$4.93 in found money! Yay!
comment by boots586 on June 17, 2012 3:25 PM ()
Already cashed the check and spent the money!!
reply by greatmartin on June 17, 2012 3:33 PM ()
I get frustrated by negativity. I am the eternal optimist.....and always (well almost always) choose to seek the silver lining in those clouds of doubt. When I encounter a negative person, I try my best to brighten their world and help them to see things in a newer, brighter light. When they refuse, I dismiss myself. It is truly their loss.....and they obviously don't know what they're missing! (I was married to a pretty negative man for 25 years.....I know a lot about it, unfortunately! LOL)
comment by dakmom on June 8, 2012 1:44 PM ()
I had a mother who the more negative she could be the happier she was! I got away from that at 16. I am a very positive person who learned the best thing that I could do for myself was to cut out any negative people in my life. It means less acquaintances but a lot of good friends!
reply by greatmartin on June 8, 2012 2:49 PM ()
I have a few friends that are that way...very negative. Very hard to deal with.
comment by panthurdreams on June 7, 2012 7:07 PM ()
Don't know if you have been over there but a lot of deaf groups from all over the mid and south west are posting blogs
reply by greatmartin on June 7, 2012 7:12 PM ()
What a nice gesture to give that guy your box of cookies. I don't know if he appreciated it, but it would have meant something to me, a gift is a gift. I'm always excited when you have the use of a car - your excitement reaches out to us.
comment by troutbend on June 7, 2012 6:50 PM ()
I don't know what to do or where to go first tomorrow
reply by greatmartin on June 7, 2012 6:56 PM ()
All we really can do is make the most of what we have!
comment by trekbrarian on June 7, 2012 6:34 PM ()
Even in my worst times--and I've had a few--someday I'll get into the 'bottom' (no. not that bottom!!!) like being homeless--I still never asked WHY? I just had to do what I had to do and did it.
PS Some of us have more than others!!!
reply by greatmartin on June 7, 2012 6:55 PM ()

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