It's a wonderful life

I just caught the last hour of the classic movie, It's a Wonderful Life.  Funny how many times I've watched that movie and never thought of it as anything more than just another classic movie with a
feel warm plot to it.   Tonight for some reason it was different, I kept "seeing myself" in some of the
scenes a deja vu feeling would come over me.  I kept thinking do I make a difference in people's lives, if so is it a good difference or a bad difference? Funny how as I get more "mature" ( I refuse to get older) I start wondering about things like this. 

I was raised in a Christian family and environment in a small rural farming community of SE South
Dakota.  You were taught early and often many things, a man's word is his bond, respect your elders,
help someone in time of need because it's the right thing to do. 

Did I use these things I learned as I grew up?  Did I pass these things on to my children?  One can wonder and fret and worry, but what does that gain you in the end?  Stress, high blood  pressure and
insomnia.  I have enough of those already.   I think I just need to look into the eyes of the people I love, my close friends, people I encounter every day and if I see a small piece of me or a positive influence hopefully caused by me in those eyes, my day is complete.  Live-Love-Laugh  I think that's a new motto for me.  Keep your life real and keep your life simple and everything else will fall into place. 

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!