"ONE MOMENT IN TIME"

A PREVIEW OF "MY MEMOIRS PART 2":

Again, You Will See This Within The General Text Of "My Memoirs" Continued, But This Was Another Vital, Optimistic, Dream-Refocusing Period Of My Life That Both Summed Up My Past AND Led Me To Where I Am Now. So, It, Too, Was Worthy Of It's Own Page.

TURNING THIRTY

    After sometime, I began to work strictly swing shifts that had me coming home about 1 or 2am. Once again, I had a great connection with my employees. By the time I would get home, Dad and Sandy would be asleep in bed. What I do always miss about the mid-west is its summer thunderstorms. We had many of them that summer, and most of them about this time of night. I love falling asleep to the smell and sounds of the rain and rolling thunder through my screens at night. But what I enjoy most of all is that oh-so-warm building wind! I love just reveling in it! I would go out on the patio / pool deck. In the dark. No one around but me - me and that wonderful wind blowing all around and past me! To heighten this experience, I would put on my walkman and play the musical score of Titanic, amongst others. And just think and reflect. Completely at peace.

    I kept thinking of how I was about to turn thirty in the fall. Luckily, it didn't show physically. I also still had a very youthful personality to match. As far as my maturity goes, it had always been noticed that I was mature beyond my years. And, as one friend had put it, [I] could have a lot of baggage, but [I didnt] carry it. That's true. That's because, all along, I chose not to carry it. Some of my views were starting to change a bit, though. I've noticed that happens about every few years. You just look back and realize what a novice - what a schmuck - you've been. You think about all the mistakes youve made, and how you're not going to make them again. You think about where your life has been and where it's going. You think about the new resolutions you are starting to make, and more.

    I thought about Las Vegas and all the things that had happened there. I thought about how I wanted to go back once I was sure my father was completely recovered. But should I? Here I was, turning thirty. Not getting any younger (in numbers), and hadn't my goal always been to settle in Southern California? Wasn't that where I had planned on making my dreams FULLY come true? Yes, I know. Millions of others have had the same dreams throughout the entire past century. If I hadn't gotten anywhere yet, I would be re-thinking my dreams, my life. But my experiences in Las Vegas HAD shown me my actual potential, had it not? That certainly could not be denied. I DID have it in me to make it! Las Vegas proved that. If I didn't recognize that, then what the hell had all that been for? Yes, it had more of a purpose than I had known. Just as my experience in the Army did before that. Both experiences combined, I now fully realized how strong I had actually become. I wasn't that scared little boy that used to live here in Illinois so long ago. I had come such a long way from that. I had been brave enough to venture out and pursue my dreams. I had developed a strong sense of humor and self. I had developed a lot of charisma. I had grown from being a timid kid into the strong leader I knew I had always been deep down inside. I could survive under the most grueling conditions and not lose an ounce of spirit. I could function well with or without someone beside me. I could lose everything and not be destroyed by it. I could, instead, see it as the new rebirth that it is. I could be utterly betrayed, and yet not lose my compassion. I could be surrounded by death, and have it only refuel my drive for life. The Powers That Be DID know what they were

doing after all, I realized. Everything I had gone through and suffered throughout my life, all the hard times, each of my mistakes and wrong turns - I wouldn't change a moment of it. It all had a grand purpose. Every bad thing inevitably led to something good. If "this" hadn't happened, I wouldn't have done "THAT". I might not have gone here or there and done "this" or "that". In hindsight, it all fits together like a jigsaw puzzle. And it all makes us who we are. Like the wizard character, Gandalf would say in "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring":

Frodo: "I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had ever happened."

Gandalf: "So do all those who live to see such times. All we need to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us..."

Well, I knew a great deal of what I was meant to do with the time that was given to ME! I always HAD. And I would soon be on my way to do it once again!

"ONE MOMENT IN TIME"

Performed By Whitney Houston

For The Olympics

"Each Day I Live

I Want To Be

A Day To Give

The Best Of Me

I'm Only One

But Not Alone

My Finest Day

Is Yet Unknown

I Broke My Heart

For Every Gain

To Taste The Sweet

I Faced The Pain

I Rise And Fall

Yet Through It All

This Much Remains

I Want One

Moment In Time

When I'm More Than I Thought I Could Be

When All Of My Dreams

Are A Heartbeat Away

And The Answers Are All Up To Me

Give Me One

Moment In Time

When I'm Racing With Destiny

Then, In That One Moment Of Time

I Will Feel

I Will Feel

Eternity

I've Lived To Be

The Very Best

I Want It All

No Time For Less

I've Laid The Plans

Now Lay The Chance

Here In My Hands

Give Me One

Moment In Time

When I'm More Than I Thought I Could Be

When All Of My Dreams

Are A Heartbeat Away

And The Answers Are All Up To Me

Give Me One

Moment In Time

When I'm Racing With Destiny

Then, In That One Moment Of Time

I Will Feel

I Will Feel

Eternity

Oh

[The Delivery And Accompanying Music Get VERY Strong And Powerful Here And Continue To Powerfully Build Till The End of The Song]

You're A Winner

For A Lifetime

If You Seize That One Moment In Time

Make It Shine

Give Me One

Moment In Time

When I'm More Than I Thought I Could Be

When All Of My Dreams

Are A Heartbeat Away

And The Answers Are All Up To Me

Give Me One

Moment In Time

When I'm Racing With Destiny

Then, In That One Moment Of Time

I Will Be

I Will Be

I Will Be Free

Oh

I Will Be

I Will Be Free"

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