2010 Reflections of

I've loved 2010 It's been a crazy, crazy, enlightening, brightening, discovery, uncovering and revealing and period of my life. May I share some of my 'moments' with you? In no particular order ... Reflections Letting go Awakening Bankruptcy Dicri Absolut Cyprus Jarl Author Beautiful Lovers Children Poetry Photographs Trees Isolation Loneliness California Howard from Heartmath That poor duck Asana Tea Shop Anarchist Café More hippies Scotland Motorbikes Tattoos The Gap Escape from Zoomanity Book deal Life Resurrection book 2. That idea Dropping dead Business contacts Facebook My kids Being Dad New direction New home Happy Smiles Tears And people that have featured in my year... Mum Dad Christian Elliot Oliver Lily Jarl (thank you) Lazarus (you are my insanity-like-reflection) Bob Mark My beautiful and patient ladies George Bernard Shaw James Joyce Michael Van Clarke Brandon Dusty Armand Jay Conrad Levinson Jeannie Levinson Gareth Owen (I love you mate) And to top off my year I'll be home in the land of real men and kings my beautiful Scotland for New Year. What a year. It's been momentous and wondrous, I can adore and savor the flavors of those moments looking back. The dramas, the tribulations, the bitterness and hate of other people, the love and adoration of the few. The highs and lows, the beauty and the beast. The rich, colorful painting of 2010 and the remnants it has left within my body. As I stand here now writing I recall things, moments, decisions, people moments with a genuine tear in my eye. Tears for survival and tears for happiness. 2010 is a year where the past has been finally uncovered and faced, revealed and honestly spoken, where lessons of life will be embedded into me forever. It's been incredible to understand the Gap of a man, face the gap and walk through the gap a stronger person. To understand what it is to have an empty and at the same time see my full cup of life, to reflect on what could have been only to see the outcome was always perfect and to finally remind myself that one day death will also knock upon my own door so when it does can I, will I be able to stand before God and deliver my life as a full book not an empty pad of dishonest gain and deceptions. I thank God for life itself, 2010 for me has been a life lived to the fullest, lovers sharing, caring, holding, caressing and eating the foods of life with me for those magical moments I am truly grateful. Facing the battle of being forced into submission of a humiliating bankruptcy from bitter, hard, vile individuals that cannot, will not and maybe never accept that change is life and life is change. For this lesson I am eternally grateful to be able to walk out of the other side smiling, happy and more enriched as a human being than ever before. 2010 was also the year I went home and recovered ME the Scotsman. I went back to Scotland to discover who I really am, where I really came from and what my true sense of roots and foundations were based upon. Scotland you have my heart until death, thank you Caroline for helping me into that, you are always my magic highlander. 2010 was also the year after many years I finally awakened to the insidious nature of a certain seminar businesses that are designed only to remove cash from the pockets of those in a room. As the dark conversations on sales and how many sales became a competition for how rich can I get by selling to the masses became a full on speaker competition for sales, sales and more sales. I finally realized that the days of persuasive selling to those looking for help are finally over. They no longer serve the people, no longer serve the good, no longer guide, help or give back to a people that are already battered, bruised and bloodied by a careless hapless world. Now the escape, escape from zoomanity. My new book written from the heart to move, encourage, chance, redirect, awaken, enliven and even humour those that decide to read it. Every page of this book has a tear from my heart emebedded on it. So much to write but not enough written. I hope it's loved and recieved by mankind as a relfection of a moment of a man. (www.escapefromzoomanity.com) It's been a wondrous year of action and glory, love and lovers, travels and traveled, skies and clouds, calms sea and storm like oceans and peaceful reflections. I am grateful for it all. I now sit here looking into 2011 with hope, optimism, controversy in my hands, new book, new ideas, new concepts, dreams, schemes and wonders of child-like quality. Its been powerful. It's been tearful. It's been soul stirring, it's been heartbreaking, it's been up building and destroying yet I know this one thing that I want to share with you. My book is full. My pages are packed. My life is a smile, a mirror of optimism and newness. What, where, how  or anything you have passed through this year you can let it go forever. Take it as a time stamp on your life of where you were, where you are or where you've been. Those that let you down, those that loved you, the trials, tribulations and pains of life itself. Don't worry. This is just life teasing, playing, caressing and taunting you. It's asking you to battle, win, lose, overcome and enjoy. I understand, I've lived a live of adventure more than most. I know how you feel. Together lets embrace 2011 and draw a line and start from the point your at right now. Not start again, not forget the past but build on what has already been. Shall we? Thank you for listening if you have thank you for reading if you did, thank you for caring enough to reply if you do. 2011 is another road that is just 365 days in length. I hope to see you on it with me. Travel well, stand strong and don't ever forget ... live the life you truly deserve. Alan Forrest Smith