"Life...Don't talk to me about Life!"

That quote is from Marvin "the manic depressed robot" from the British television show, "Hitchhiker's Guide To The Universe". It's not that I'm depressed...it's just seemed fitting for the "June Gloom" that has taken over July and what seems like all summer. Don't get me wrong, I personally think this summer here in Laguna has been wonderful. I just hear people talk about the "gloom".

Because of it, we have been nice and cool. Take over the weekend for instance. My parents live in Hesperia and the temperature was over 100 there! And we had the great days in the 70's!!! Anywho, I guess that the title should be "Gloom...Don't talk to me about Gloom!". And that is how my abnormally wired brain worked it's way to this. The world is created by our minds...if we perceived it differently, it would be different! So, I sentence you to be hung by your toenails until you cheer up. Let's create a world where the negative people, press, news and whatever else wants to be negative can't make us lose our positive attitude!!!

Laguna is a spiritually uplifting place and with the power of positive thinking we will change the world...at least I will change my world. I have been looking for a sign, something to guide me toward "The Path". I believe that I will see it and I hope that it shows me that I am on the right route to find it! So, call me a dreamer, a spiritualist or whatever you want to, but I am just out here in this little universe of mine trying to find happiness. I have a profession that allows me to help people find dream homes and hopefully reach their goals, but I still think of myself as a teenager looking for his endpoint. I still don't know what that is and maybe that's the point...to always be out here looking for the next bit of knowledge, to never be satisfied with what you have done.

What seems like long ago in a distant universe, I began writing in this space...pouring my heart out and putting random thoughts out into the "ether-net". I thought that I would be able to meet people and enlighten some as to what Laguna was all about. In addition to that, I have started looking deep inside, the way I haven't in years, and wondering WHY? The big why! As Douglas Adams wrote it in Hitchhiker's, "The ultimate question of life, the universe and everything!" So, Why?

I have been a believer for years that we are all together in this. If you harm or help or do anything to someone, you are doing it to yourself. I have tried to follow this creed, but it is a very hard one to follow in the real world, especially when you are the only one sharing this way. I know I won't stop, but I know that the fountain of energy can run low sometimes...I'm unfortunately not the Fountain of Youth...and I can use some outside support, energy, feedback, love, enlightenment...whatever your beliefs would call it.

But that is still not the answer to the question, it is only how you may or may not live life...as to the "Why?" I don't know! I just know that I will keep living, trying to support those around me with the maximum positive energy that I can muster and searching and searching. Until then, I will keep looking for the signs and "The Path".

Thanks for reading and if you see me wandering through Laguna looking for "The Path" in my little grey Subaru, please say hello and let me know if you have any directions!!! Cole