The Beginning... of the rest of my life.

Good Morning Everyone,

I should catch you up on a bit of history to begin. The past few weeks have been extremely stressful with personal changes that I didn't expect. When situations like this occur, there's no amount of stress, anxiety, and depression, that a Manic Depressive like myself, can self inflict when desired. Life with Depression is like having a little monster in your head telling you every one of your worst fears on a regular basis.

I however, strive to defeat that monster daily. So I needed a lot of support to be able to overcome him. Today is one of the first where I can honestly say, I'm winning that battle.

My fiance, and soon to be husband (yep, I'm a straight acting, as normal as possible, gay man), was the person who pulled me through the thick of it and put things in perspective. He told me, losing my job was just a new beginning. He reminded me that when I finished University and then College, my sole goal was to work for Child Welfare. I wanted to be a Child Protection Worker, and make a change in the world; I had achieved that to already.

 For the past four years I dedicated my life to my job.  The point my fiance made was that in achieving my goal, I threw myself so far into my work, that I didn't have a life outside it. I hadn't read a good book, watched a television series, gone for a nature hike, cooked for pleasure, etc. in so long, that I had forgotten how much it all centered me.

My soon to be husband, Andre, reminded me that I was missing out on life, and I was burnt out from it. So going forward, he reminded me I needed to balance myself better by doing what I enjoyed, and take this time and opportunity to set new goals for myself. He was right.

So today, after getting myself to a new frame of mind, I'm working on moving forward. I've finally read a new book, based on a movie I actually want to see; "Interstellar" by Christpher Nolan. The book is good, and has some interesting, and theoretical quantum mechanics to think about, however I finish it still wanting more. To be honest, the book is adapted from a movie screen play, so understandably it's very short. The problem with that, is that you wind up with a thousand questions; for example, how did earth become unsustainable? What year is this supposed to take place? What is "the blight" in reference to crops? etc. I think Nolan made a great starter series with this; however someone could make this the next best selling novel series if they put some time and effort into it.








Ladies and Gentlemen, if you like a good book, then check this one out and let me know your thoughts. I think it could be an awesome movie (graphics look amazing), and I also think it could do so much more.

See you all tomorrow.