Abandonment

Abandon:

1. give up completely (a course of action, a practice, or a way of thinking).
   “he had clearly abandoned all pretense of trying to succeed”
    
2. 2.
   cease to support or look after (someone); desert.

   “her natural mother had abandoned her at an early age”

Child Abandonment:

Child abandonment is the practice of relinquishing interests and claims over one’s offspring with the intent of never again resuming or reasserting them.

Heard an interesting story on the news today. A man left his three year old child in the car while he ran into Costco, and was charged with Child Abandonment. He left his son in the car all bundled up to keep him warm for approximately 45 minutes. Was charging him with child abandonment too much? Did he in fact abandon his child if he intended on coming back? What’s the maximum amount of time you can “run into the store” with your child in the car before it’s considered abandonment? is any amount of time okay? How old does a child have to be, before it’s considered acceptable to leave them in a car alone? Is running into the gas station to pay for gas considered abandonment if you leave your child in the car until you get back? 

Is there rules to this, or is it just plain common sense? 

 

Would you leave your child in the car for 45 minutes? 

If you saw a child in a car alone, would you contact authorities? 

Let’s talk.

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I don’t want to plan any more – I’d like to have something planned, that I simply have to follow

Waiting for a shock (not literally)

If I’m sick, I want to know someone will be there to take care of me – Just like I would be there for anyone I care about

I don’t want to do any favours – I’d like to be asked if there’s something anyone can do for me. 

I feel like I can say these things, because I would do/have done, the same for a lot of people.

I want these stupid headaches to go away. 

I can’t put my current thoughts into any form of writing that makes sense, so this will have to do for now. 

I’m just tired.

Bucket List

• go to “brick yard” 
• Maid of the mist
• Go on a cruise
• Grand Canyon
• Edmonton Mall
• Great Wolf Lodge
• Wine Tour
• Surfing
• Cuba
• Hawaii
• Shooting Range
• Run or Dye
• St. Lucia
• Brazil
• Jamaica
• Darien Lake
• CN Tower Climb
• Edge Walk
• Tokyo
• Las Vegas
• Empire State Building
• Eiffel Tower
• Statue of Liberty
• and others….

For anyone that will listen

I vaguely remember a conversation with someone who has recently become a very good friend of mine, on New Years eve. It started off as a casual conversation, slowly changing it’s pace to all that has happened over the past year. 

I must admit, 2013 was a great year for me. Although it was filled with stress, confusion, risks, anger, and the odd sad moment, I found a way to make the best out of every situation. I stopped focusing on negative aspects of life, and started to look for the positive. I let a lot of people in, and became more open to ideas. I focused a lot on myself, started reaching further towards my goals, and achieved most of them.

I almost feel obligated to speak on all the things that I’m going to change about myself this year, since that’s what’s expected on the first of January. Everybody speaking on their new goals and doing nothing to implement them. I don’t want to change myself, I rather enjoy who I am. I would like to better myself, as should everybody, but I don’t believe that means I have to change who I am. 

 I think people are forgetting, a new year, does not mean a new you. You can not create a new identity for yourself, you can not delete your character and recreate a new account. Anything that you’ve done throughout 2013, and past years as well, will follow you into your future. We like to get by on the quote “live for today” or “live in the moment”, and I whole heartedly agree. However, you still have to have a plan, or be prepared to deal with any consequences that your split second living has caused you. 

Take a second and think about what you want your future to look like. Now take another second and reflect on what your life has consisted of so far. What improvements do you need to make? What do you need to drop from your life, and what do you need to add? Create a plan for yourself, and focus on how you’re going to get there. Don’t worry about what other people are doing because, when they get to where they want to be in life, and you’re still standing in the same spot as yesterday, they won’t be worried about what you’re doing. 

 

Don’t create a plan and let it sit there, create a plan and live it. 

 

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