7.20.2011 Kayla Miller Star wars Rocky

Sent to the group on: 7/20/2011
This week I think we will talk a little about stars and see where that leads this entry. I really want to talk about the Movie Star wars and certain characters in that film, and others that would be considered movie stars, but first I will mention who or what is a star to me. It goes without saying that the smartest person in the world, to me, and my hero and role model is my Dad, but there is a certain profession that I’ll speak on. There are many ways and many jobs you can do to help people. Anyone who really knows me, maybe they’re in my head, knows for sure what I’m going to talk about. That’s making a pretty darn big assumption, because at times even I don’t know, and everybody is unaware of, what I’ll say next.

I do speaking because that gives me the best chance to impact lives; I am well aware that doing therapy (PT, OT, or Speech) is a great way to help people regain normalcy, but the profession that I respect the most is nursing. I recently spoke with Kayla Miller, www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=500671808. She is from Delphos, OH, and currently attends Rhodes State and studies Nursing. I am in awe of her as I am anybody that’s a nurse or preparing to be one. Believe me I’ve almost died twice 12 years apart, for unrelated reasons, and nurses receive most of the credit for keeping me alive credit for keeping me alive.

Kayla, I’m impressed with you and what you do. That’s for sure, and to me you are a star. I realize that we may have met at a game sometime already, but I want to meet you sometime. Kayla says, “don’t pass someone you care about without telling them that you do, because you never know when that person will no longer be there.” With that in mind I’ll say that I care about you Kayla, and I care about everyone. I want everyone to make the best of the opportunities they’ve been dealt. Whether we have similar or different opinions, I care. Just because you are ordering a pizza with sauerkraut on it, I dislike that, I still care about it. If I’m going to eat it then I care what the toppings are; just because I say that I care doesn’t mean I like it. Now let me get past my personal stars.

Star Wars was a great series of movies, and now my nephews are big time into the characters. I tell you what even the youngest of my sister’s three boys, Nick at age three, knows every character, and they (my three nephews) even have action figures to play with. I’ll tell you I’ve learned some new characters. The boys rave about the new movies (which I understand are prequels,) but I’ve never paid enough attention to know some new names. I imagine that they are good, but I already know what happens a little later for I saw the earlier releases. I just don’t understand why they do that? To me seems like having Rocky Balboa fight the big Russian (Ivan Drago) and follow that with a bout against James “Clubber” Lang (played by Mr. T,) and the death of Mickey, his trainer. That would be Rocky IV (1985) before Rocky III (1982). That seems incoherent.

I’ve only seen reruns of the early Sylvester Stallone as Rocky movies, and let me interrupt this week’s Star Wars conversation to mention the Italian Stallion known as Rocky Balboa. “Sly” also starred in many other movies, sometimes series (such as Rambo.) There have been six Rocky movies, with the possibility of a seventh. Sylvester Stallone has alluded to feeling the need to continue the Rocky saga, and has said, in effect, that the older he gets the more necessary it is to write another Rocky movie. I’ve seen the first six of the series (multiple times each,) and I see no reason why I would not see the next one. It seems safe to say the Stallone won’t star in a prequel (as he turned 65 years old On July 9, 2011,) but he is also a director, writer, and occasional painter. So who knows what they’ll dream up?

The whole Star Wars sequence doesn’t seem right but backwards to me (with the latest release being a prequel,) and that’s why I’ve not bought into all the latest hoopla regarding the new releases of Star Wars. Maybe I’m missing something marvelous, but that’s just going to be my loss, I guess. I don’t remember when the Star Wars movies were first released (as like I’m not aware of the first releases of most Rocky movies,) because I’m not that old (lol, but I am single and willing to hang out with people- even if they are overseas, right db.) I did do a bit of research on the Star Wars series though so I could be up to date with my three and four year old nephews, who are at my house all week. Mom and Dad think it’s their house, ha-ha, but I just let them live here. I’m merely kidding about who owns this house. I think my nephew’s favorite character is Darth Vader, but he is on the Dark Side, which is bad. They like Yoda, too, and he is a good guy so we’ll investigate him a little, because it will be a positive force and good for my motivational message.

He talks weird, Yoda does, but he speaks with remarkable intellect at times. Here’s an example:

"Named must your fear be, before banish it you can."
Yoda

What are your fears? The quote says you have to recognize and know what you gear before you can overcome it. Maybe that was a question that you’ll choose to answer silently or on this wall. I don’t mind which way you choose to answer. It can be a rhetorical situation, but I’ll tell you some of my biggest fears. Why do I do that you ask? It’s because Yoda told me to do so.

Probably my biggest fear is that I won’t live up to my own expectations. My expectations are to have a wife and kids, but the wife needs to happen before the kids. I want to have a mutual love with somebody. Believe me, even a guy as ugly as me gets his opportunities, but I’m not just going to get freaky with some random girl. In fact if you were to want an offer that, it depreciates my view of you. Believe me I seek that, but only after I find somebody to love. Maybe that won’t happen, that’s my greatest fear, but I owe it to the Big Guy, and if He thinks a wife and kids would be best for me then we’ll fall in love. I thought I met a girl, who could be that someday, but the jury has not come to a verdict yet. Sometimes the judge calls a recess, too. What advice would Yoda give me in this situation, as if I listened to him?

As I was reading through Yoda’s sayings, it became clear that sometimes the old character forgets that we are only human. For instance, consider the following quote:

"Do or do not... there is no try."
Yoda

That quote cannot be more incorrect. I guess the story writers and movie makers created the green, short, and wrinkled character to be out of this world, and so some of his quotes are meant to be outlandish. This quote of Yoda immediately makes me want to stop reading Star Wars quotes. Although right for Yoda, it goes against every thought I have and what I say to you very often. I am feeling irate about now.

On January 5.2010 I mentioned the following, and I’ve been try to help people see this point over and over. Maybe you are unsuccessful in an attempt to win a game, a race, a contest, or a challenge (either personally set or one delegated by somebody else,) but your not having success initially does not warrant failure unless/until trials are ceased. Try is the essence of what I am saying. I wish the old green alien dude that most people recognize, know, or associate as Yoda could be at one of my presentations. He would see and realize that those “do not” or cannot (can’t, but I detest that word) situations may transform into can or “do” situations

Now typically if you try something for the third time time and you do not succeed people quit and say they failed. Listen up… they are half right! Technically it IS failure when you don’t succeed after three trials. Failure IS the first step to success the next time! Hop back on your horse and try again. In order to really feel good about succeeding, in some instances, it works out better to fail first. Give it another shot. That’s what I do. If you do things over and over again, you’ll get better at whatever you are trying.

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