MERRY CHRISTMAS

It was either last year or earlier this year when I wrote about how I sometimes feel like George Bailey from It’s A Wonderful Life. I related to his adventurous spirit. How he wanted to leave home, travel the world and go to college. Well, I went to college so I guess I can cross that part off. However, like George Bailey I had a death in the family and I felt it was best to stay in my home –in the region (northwest Indiana). 

I remember feeling like I’m missing out and how all these other people I know are seeing different places and doing different things. I wondered what it would be like to move away. It wasn’t until this year, when I watched It’s A Wonderful Life again, that I finally understood the message it was giving. George Bailey didn’t need any of that. He didn’t need the excitement of traveling the world. He didn’t need a lot of money. All he needed was his life as it was. He needed his beautiful family, his beautiful home, and his community that he grew up around. All the people he cared about and who cared about him. 

I realize that’s all I need and I can’t believe how long it’s taken me to get the message. I’m so blessed to be living here where I grew up. I’m so blessed to be in the region around my family and everyone I know and care about. I’m so blessed to be loved so strongly by my wife and my son. I’m so blessed for the friends I’ve kept and for the new ones I’ve made (both in person and here in the WordPress community). I may not be a millionaire but man am I rich. I have so much to be thankful for and I’m going to thank God every single day. As the quote at the end of the movie goes, “Remember, no man is a failure who has friends.”

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Peter