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If this were the last post I were to ever write...

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...I would probably make it my worst.  Under-achieving is a niche in of itself:-)  I would also probably share what I consider 'Common Sense Ideals' with the majority to see, if only I could help make it a reality to all. 

While dealing with the debacles of computer viruses and spam, I've finally overcome them to write words that I'm not quite sure should be written.  Words that tag my soul, my thoughts, my heart, as if forever was around the corner.  It's not....not yet.  I came here like Dan & Belushi, on a mission from God.  I'll leave when God wants me back.

What an interesting year 2007 was and will be, until 2008 peeks its head into the fold.  While I'd love to surmise it with surreal glimpses back and what may become of it....I'm no Crystal Ball...I'm no Prophet.  For the record, I hate both of those facts.

My time on this forum has been well spent, overall at least.  I've made many acquaintances, learned a whole bunch, and have garnered some business along this path.  The true teller of what Active-Rain has been for me is very simple.  It allotted me the chance to write again, only this time it was public. 

So here it goes, my last wishes...my quasi-dying will, if this were to be it.  (It isn't, I will live far too long and nobody is getting rid of this chap just yet). The following would be changes I would attempt to implement in the current world I live in....

- I would let my Parents know how much I care for them and apologize for not properly conveying that during my lifetime.  I'd let my brother know he probably found the right girl and to settle down if that is what he truly wants to do. 

Gas Prices, Health-Care, Credit Card Companies....would be more regulated, not by the Government though.  Their regulation would be in that they we are taught about it before they happened upon us.  I harp on it a lot, education is key....as long as it is the right kind.  I'll put it this way, before I'm able to dissect a cat, I want to make sure I'm taught how to balance a checkbook.

- "One Stop Shops" would die a long and brutally dismal death.  There seems to me such a conflict of interest of having all one's needs fulfilled at one place.  Some may call this efficiency, that everybody is on the same page and it is in the consumer's best interest.  Hey Mr. & Mrs. Consumer!  Choose to listen or let it fall idle before it reaches your ears or eyes, if ANYBODY in ANY facet of life REQUIRES or STRONGHOLDS you into using a particular business outlet on any transaction....that's called Fascism.  Run away, far away.

- Political positions would never be a lifetime gig....at least as a high paying/compensating job.  It's a civil duty in my book.

- Government spending seems as ridiculous as our own...or at least mine.  I'd want someone to passionately and without bias...check it out and run the numbers.

- There would be high level classes in High-School & College for those who want to enter the Mortgage Industry.

- Take that tax that's called something akin to 'The Privilege To Work Tax' and shove it up your nostrils....then sneeze.  Or, take those funds and start infusing it into leveling out the huge discrepancy between the rich and the poor.  I'm no Socialist....but I see ridiculous as it happens.

- I hope I & We embrace Old Age.  I hope we embrace it and don't fake it.  While I don't want to put Plastic Surgeons out of business, I also don't want us to lose what we may be down the road.

- And may we all find.....HAPPY!

 

 

Jeff Belonger
Social Media - Infinity Home Mortgage Company, Inc - Cherry Hill, NJ
The FHA Expert - FHA Loans - FHA mortgages - USDA loans - VA Loans
Jason... then do me a favor dude....  send me an e-mail through AR with your yahoo account.  thanks...  and one was written already.... lol  
Dec 08, 2007 09:18 AM
Andrew Trevino
ADT Real Estate - Wilkes Barre, PA
Wilkes-Barre Homes For Sale

Jason,

Nice list, my friend. If this were your last post, I wouldn't say it was your worst. It's close, but not quite. ;-P 

Dec 08, 2007 10:51 AM
Andrew Trevino
ADT Real Estate - Wilkes Barre, PA
Wilkes-Barre Homes For Sale

Jason,

On a more serious note...I think we all need to take a look back at 2007 and make a good list of the lessons we learned. 2008 will be much better!!`

Dec 08, 2007 10:53 AM
Linda Davis
RE/MAX Home Team - Gales Ferry, CT
Jason - Have you ever considered public office?
Dec 08, 2007 11:59 AM
Ann Cummings
RE/MAX Shoreline - NH and Maine - Portsmouth, NH
Portsmouth NH Real Estate Preferrable Agent

Jason - come back and talk to us!  Did you call your parents and your brother today?

MWA

Dec 08, 2007 12:10 PM
Prudential Preferred Realty Butler PA
Prudential Preferred Realty - Butler, PA

Okay, showing some real diversity with the 2 music selections....

I had forgotten the first one (I think by choice), and unfortunately, noone who leaves anywhere NEAR Pittsburgh will ever forget the second one. 

Nice post, glad it's not really your last (or your worst..)

Dec 08, 2007 01:13 PM
Jennifer Monroe
Indigo Home Team powered by Compass - Charlotte, NC
Real Estate REALTOR®/Broker/Designer
Btw.. i LOVE Leonard Cohen. But not nearly as much as someone else...
Dec 08, 2007 01:28 PM
Mike Norvell Sr
Morris Williams Realty - Leesburg, FL
Norvell Consulting Group

Jason, this can't be your last post, because it was far from your worst..

So a reasonable person would ask, it this was not my worst, then what was.

On optimistic man would muse that if he tried, he could certainly write a much worse post, yes I could!

A pragmatic man would just accept that this could have been his worst post, but what does it really matter.

A visionary man would aspire to dream of the post he has yet to write, the perfect literary prose..

But Jason will accept the facts that he has teased us again with what is neither his last nor his worst, it's just Jason, and we await the next offering.

 

Dec 08, 2007 01:46 PM
Bob Carney
Taylor-Made Deep Creek Vacations & Sales - Mc Henry, MD
Licensed MD/PA Real Estate Agent

Haven't you done "this is my last post before?"  Or at least a variety of it anyways.  ;)

Maybe instead of focusing on what we do if it were our last how about if had to do it all over again... starting over with all the enthusiasm we had before we hit this wall...how we were going to save the world and what different paths would we take now.  party like its 1999 (no youtube, because prince is a boob)

Dec 08, 2007 05:53 PM
Diane Aurit
LKN Realty, LLC - Mooresville, NC
Lake Norman Real Estate
Well, I wholeheartedly agree with some and disagree with others...but loved the writing.  Isn't that what's most important?
Dec 09, 2007 01:05 AM
John Occhi
AZ Veteran Notary Services - Marana, AZ
Mobile Notary Public/Certified Loan Signing Agent

Jason,

I hate to read that this may be your last post - sounds too doom and gloom.  I still know of a Book that has some really great answers tithe questions I believe you continue to seek

Looking forward to more from you.

Now Have a Blessed Day,

John Occhi, Hemet REALTOR®
Mission Grove Realty

Dec 09, 2007 05:13 AM
Tracy Santrock
Santrock Realty Group Inc. , - Cary, NC
Raleigh - Cary Broker

Jason,

You speak of doom and gloom but underneath I see true hope and happiness for you.

P.S. When are you head to Chapel Hill for the holidays?   

 

Dec 09, 2007 10:47 AM
Mike Norvell Sr
Morris Williams Realty - Leesburg, FL
Norvell Consulting Group

Jason, I have a book for you too,,its called Who Moved My Cheese.

The book is a riot,....and reminds me of the time I moved the cheese, munchies you know,  and only an almond cheese log and a quart of milk to wash it down with....You could have rented me out for pest fumigation services for the next 24 hours..WHo moved my cheese you ask....silly boy, I ate the whole cheese log...one of those life lessons you should only have to live thru once. Like touching a hot stove, or pulling the head peice veil off Sister Ann Francis in the 6th grade..all the way to never pay up front for most anything anymore....

Remember..there is no Revenge so Complete as Forgiveness.....

I need to forgive myself for this reply and move on to the story of the lemon merange pie and A dancer named Misti

Dec 09, 2007 11:47 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life

Sandra - Easy Mommie Dearest, I'm on it:-)

Jeff - That is important, I spoke with the yesterday.

Jennifer - You and me both.  These are just some, not the sum:-)

Dan - There is a part of me, at times, that believes that some of the taxes we have to pay are criminal.  I suppose there is a Conspiracy Nut in us all.

Matt - That is the pursuit, is it not?

Marc - That is very true my friend.

Diane - I do as well, thank you!

Missy -  When you find it or it finds you, let me know.  I'm not getting any younger myself:-)

Ann - Done!  MWA back at ya!

Lisa - True, never hurts to remind yourself of that along the way.

Belonger - Now you have it and it is time you write another one already!

Trevino - LOL, it is very close.

Trevino - There is some reflection we all need to do, which will help to make 2008....Grrrrreat!

Linda - Yes, though I'm sure I'd be a prime target for scandals having little to do with the Civic Good I would try to implement:-(

Ann - Yesterday, though I still owe my Bro a phone call.

Jayne - Those poor Steelers:-( 

Jennifer - Ditto!  What a spirtual voice he has.

Mike - I'll keep churning and some will keep burning:-)

Andrew - A night out?  Yah, I'm in....let's find us a Stadium!

Bob - Yes I have and will probably do it again ;-)  Though, I was inspired to write something like you just pointed out as well......we shall see.  (jiggle) (jigglie)

Diane - It's certainly up there.

Andrew - Those are also good points and courses that you brought up.  God knows I could of used some plumbing acumen a few weeks back.

John - This isn't my last post amigo, but I did like the idea of 'What If'?  Thank you though!

Tracy - I'll be down the 21st, for 6 days!

Mike - You are a riot:-))

Dec 10, 2007 01:20 AM
Rey Gallegos
Supreme Lending (NMLS ID #2129) - Las Vegas, NV
FHA, VA, Home Loans Las Vegas, NV
As always well written and well put! 
Dec 10, 2007 06:03 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life
Rey - Thank you kind Sir!
Dec 10, 2007 06:27 AM
Sandra Cummings
William Raveis Real Estate - Guilford, CT
Real Estate Agent, Guilford Connecticut
You know you drive me crazy when you call me that..
Dec 10, 2007 10:40 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life
Between Dan & I, you'll be in the asylum quite soon Sandra:-)
Dec 12, 2007 03:51 AM
Nick M.
Certified Residential Appraiser- West Palm Beach Real Estate - West Palm Beach, FL
Realtor-Appraiser in West Palm-South Florida Real Estate Appraiser

Hi Jason, thankfully this is not the last post you write..! A lot of people would miss you..!

are you going into politics? because if you do, Id vote for ya! :)

-baldie

Dec 13, 2007 08:04 AM
Jason Sardi
Auto & Home & Life Insurance throughout North Carolina - Charlotte, NC
Your Agent for Life

Nick - If I do man, I want you to be a part of the staff!

 

Dec 14, 2007 03:21 PM