Today is Christmas and whether you celebrate this day or not, it is a day when we all stop for a minute! We focus on what is important! If we have family we are greatful! If we are loved by anyone we are greatful! If we have survived tragedy we are(or should be) greatful.
We also look back at what we could have done differently! Most of us wish we had never put that first cigarette in our mouths! We can not do anything about that now! It is history and perhaps a tragedy that we have survived. So far!
Now that we have looked to the past, let us turn our heads forward! It has been said that blame is pointless. Everyone made the only choice they were capable of making at the time, based on the facts as they knew them! If we made bad choices based on the wrong facts, so be it. Let us not spend our lives looking in the rear view mirror! Let us look down the road with a clear vision. We understand the facts better now! Everything we did in the past, has gone into making us who we are today! Let us take pride in the lessons learned the hard way! Let us put them to work making us better people today! Among the things we have learned is that we can live Smoke Free! Let us do that from this moment forward, for whatever time we have left here! Let us pass on this lesson to others. No one has time to make all the mistakes for themselves! Look forward my friends, to a future that can be as bright as we make it. But, glance occassionally at that rearview mirror so you don't forget where you have been!
I am always Tommy
