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February 27 2. Who Am I?I am the Author of Windows For People, my first book. It’s a concept I have been working on for many years and am excited to now be sharing my work.
I use the name Author, just simply because I don’t think who I am is that important at this stage, it is more about what I have to say.
I am 27 years of age and at a turning point in life, on of those crossroads we all get to now and again. I have had a successful career, which I will talk about later, however currently, at the point of this entry am unemployed. This week I finished working for the government in the city I now live.
I remember recently my excitement when my criminal disclosure check came back, the last visible scars of my misspent youth appeared to have been erased, my transition seemed to be complete, a once young hoddie criminal to respectful contributing citizen, with personal quality of life and wealth.
I struggle to remember exactly when things went wrong when I was young, I put the difficulty to remember down to the extreme amounts of LSD I took in my mid teens, followed by several years of cannabis smoking and irregular but frequent use of class A drugs. As a child I grew up witnessing struggle between my parents and found it hard to make sense of life in later years, the relationships I hold with both parents now are great and I know them closely as people, not the monsters my child like eyes saw when I was a toddler. They are beautiful people who did their best for me, just simply were not meant to spend their lives together, which through time I understand and value the individual happiness they have found in their respective lives.
Throughout this book I will refer to my experiences, this is not to glorify them but to show the basis for the lessons I subsequently learned and now teach to others. I will also refer heavily to failings in our current system, incidents that I have witnessed first hand that are detrimental to our society’s ability to continue and explain a lot of the failings we see daily through our media. Again this is not to lay blame, but to identify areas that need change, in most cases drastically.
This book for me has two aims the first of which is this: To provide a guide to life's lessons. I was once told
'a mistake is only a mistake if you do it twice, the first you can put down to learning!'
Now there is an element of truth in this statement, people do make mistakes yes, but I question the 'once'? For me and countless others I could name, mistakes need to be repeated numerous times whilst learning eventually leads to change - lesson learnt! In many cases it’s never learned, and people go their whole lives struggling with addiction, depression, under achieving, being alone, debt and alike.
So when I say this book is a guide to life's lessons, I guess it might be read as a collection of mistakes and corrections to which I hope readers can apply to their own lives to save mistakes on their part - as some of life’s lessons can be damaging if not learned hastily.
The book explains a way to look at life, points to achieve success in it. By writing the word success I don’t mean financially, although I do believe that is a side effect. This book is aimed at achieving happieness.
If this book does achieve that you will learn about life, the more you know and put into practice the better your life and those you impact on will be. Simple.
The second is this: To gain attention of the 'Change Makers'. Change makers are what I refer to as people of influence, people who shape the world we live in. People like politicians, the royal family, celebrity role models, media leaders. The list is long and by no means exhausted, it is essential to point out you are included and infact top of this list.
Why do I want their attention? Because I have a message. A message they themselves have taught me. Through going through their system (‘The System’) and reshaping my life I have learned a thing or two. One of which I hope is the ability to communicate my information directly to your eyes, more importantly for free. It is free because you have a right to it, a right that till now people have tried to sell you for their own gain.
As I will explore in later chapters we as a nation and global community have many problems, you see them every day in the news. Just this week I have seen articles on drinking problems, mental health issues, rising the age of smoking, gun crimes, pollution, War, poverty and so on. Again the list is long and by no means exhausted. I don't know how to look into the future, but based on current trends if these problems continue to spiral then so will our quality of life.
The message is not a simple one, but it has a simple point.
Something needs to be done.
Exactly what this entails we will explore on coming pages, but it benefits us of all, every single one of us. TrackbacksThe trackback URL for this entry is: http://windowsforpeople.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!1BD54B4FEC834EAD!114.trak Weblogs that reference this entry
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