what exactly is the right thing to do?

hello my friends!! wow look at this!! here i am writing again so quickly!! well i have alot on my mind these days. here we go again with the choices. not just me, my friends and family. all of us. what to do what to do. right? whats the right thing to do. well my pop always used to tell me that doing the right thing ISN'T always the right thing to do. i didn't get it then, but i did as i got older, and i sure do now. i see my friends in unhappy relationships, marraiges, jobs, situations, making up excuses about why they stay, ultimately i get "it's the right thing to do." all the while they are unhappy, and making the rest of us unhappy. excuses don't change the outcome. all to often we stick to what's familiar, whats safe. we like the routine, why take a chance of messing that up? hell, we might just be happy..it's like we are afraid of success. i'm just as guilty. always leaning on, "it's the right thing to do." afraid people will judge us, or make us feel guilty for taking in some pleasure, finding happiness. we shouldn't interfere in our friends and families lives because we don't agree with what they are doing or we don't think it's right. we may be affecting they're decisions with our opinions. don't do something you think is right because everyone says its right-it may not be the right thing to do. it may not be the right thing for YOU. i always say if it makes you happy, then it makes me happy. what i think, doesn't matter.

my predecessor abe lincoln once said "when i do good, i feel good. when i do bad, i feel bad." if only it were that black and white. sometimes doing the right thing makes you feel everything but good. it can feel scarey, or uncomfotable. [unhappy] because even when you make the right choices, things can still happen. as much as we want them, there are no guarentees [in life]. all we can do is have faith. and if we act with our heart, the things we do will one day make us feel right. even if sometimes the thing we do feels just a little wrong. (men in trees)

until next time...safe journey.