When I was a kid, TV was something we watched at Granny’s house when we went into town. If you’ll remember from last time, I lived in the country without a lot of amenities, so when we didn’t travel down to visit and watch I read. I was an avid reader – still am in fact – for probably no other reason than there were no other distractions.

I was about thirteen when Dad came home with a transistor TV. It was a seven inch (17.78 centimeter) by seven inch black and white model. We powered it with electricity from a twelve volt car battery. TV was never the center of my life, so maybe that made me something of a dreamer. If so, great!

When I was younger I chose truck driving as my career. It always gave me a good living, I got to see the country I live in and get paid for it. I learned to look at each day as a new adventure. It usually was (maybe I’ll talk about that in a future post). Now I’m surrounded by family and home. That’s another good thing – It gives my life balance.

I sure do miss the country, where you don’t have to license your cat and if you’ve got a dog, it can run free. I’ve got a few birds around the house now in a tree out back, but I can imagine a whole forest full of them out there, just beyond. I’m looking forward to seeing them because when I retire, I’m going back.

If there’s one thing I’ve taken from my life that I think other people should know about it’s that I get a lot of strength out of my past, and everything I’ve done, but those things don’t own me. I chose what to take forward when I traded my truck’s keys for an opportunity to make money from home. I chose the good things I picked up, like the ability to concentrate that I got from a mostly TV-free environment as well as an appreciation for nature and new, challenging situations. I think taking charge of your life doesn’t mean leaving everything you had behind. It means being able to choose and keep the good things about yourself and use them as a source of inner strength.

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