The Past is Now

Yesterday, my fiance got some bad news from home. He had a friend that passed away on Thursday night from a pain pill overdose. I had the day off as did he, so we spent the morning getting arrangements made for him to go home for the funeral. After that, we decided to get out of town and head to the Uintahs for a hike.

I am always amazed by the thoughts and conversations you have with yourself when you are hiking in silence in a beautiful place. It has been said that, "Mountains speak, and wise men listen." Yesterday, I realized that the past, not the future, is now. The choices we make, the people we decide to spend time with, the things we learn, all have a way of catching back up with us.

As I was hiking, I thought about the state of the union and how the past is effecting the future. I thought about the stock market and how this punishment has been coming ever since Pres. Clinton's second term when deregulation was established and then Pres. Bush with his hope for every American to acheive the American Dream. Global warming has also been a long time coming, and we are just starting to reap the benefits of our lack of environmental ethics and wastefulness. Yesterday, we realized that the two of us are reaping the benefits of him choosing to come to Utah. We get to spend time in the mountains we love and he spend time with people that have the same ideas about life that we do. We are reaping the benefits of being raised by parents that value the outdoors and were excited and willing to help us learn to share that love.

So ask you, ladies and gentlemen, please, choose wisely because the past is now.