A Lasting Impact

~ Gottfried

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives. I usually do whatever the voices in my wife’s head tell me to do. The advice you give really makes a difference for people. I advised my cousin to start a poultry business, he’s homeless now. Impact!

If you stumble make it part of the dance. I did not trip and fall. I attacked the floor and I believe I’m winning.  Always choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. Any job you can do in your pajamas is not difficult. 

Life is about making an impact, not making an income. I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives. To make a mistake is human, but to blame it on someone else, that’s even more human. 

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian. The world is an unforgiving and dark place. If you truly desire to live a long and healthy life, you need to develop a mean streak.

As much as people refuse to believe it, the company you keep does have an impact and influence on your choices. Evaluate the people in your life; then promote, demote or terminate. You’re the CEO of your life. People always reveal themselves through their actions. 

Your life has a purpose. Your story is important. Your dreams count. Your voice matters. You were born to make an impact. You have the biggest balls in the game.  Somewhere, somebody out there is thinking of you and the tremendous impact you’ve made on their life. 

It isn’t me…I think you’re an idiot. 

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

20 thoughts on “A Lasting Impact”

  1. This one is great: “Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.”

    Unfortunately too many good people are rather naive. Just talk nice and scratch the bull behind his ear.

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  2. SMiles Mr Gottfried in the United States at Least Most Dudes
    Find Both Meaning and Someway to Make an Impact in the

    World Through the Work they do although It’s True

    Ever Growing More Distant in the Human Touch

    Warm For What Human Creativity and

    Productivity Brings It’s True Working

    For the Military for a Quarter of a Century

    Commonly Sailors in the Navy Retired after
    20 Year of Enlisted Service Perhaps as Early
    as 38 Years Old with 50 Percent of their Pay

    Yet Many Expressed fear of Losing That Military
    Identity as far as Meaning Purpose and the Impact

    They Made In This World Yes even me although my
    Job Became so Stressful i Fell to 19 Medical Disorders
    Yes including Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia From Wake
    to Sleep 66 Months Assessed as the Worst Pain Known to Humankind

    Yes Casually
    Described
    in the Medical
    Field as the
    Real Suicide Disease

    Winning the BLacK Abyss
    Jackpot that was in Yes

    Real Living Death
    Without even the
    Memory of the
    Feeling of a Smile
    Yep all Pain and Numb
    Of Course you’ve Heard this
    Part of my Story yes before

    As True Many Folks Leave
    This World through what
    Will Be Pain Beyond Previous Belief

    That could even
    Possibly Happen

    Anyway in the Couple Hours
    of Sleep if i ever Got that Much
    Card Board Shallow Sleep in the
    Only Escape From Pain and Numb

    my Best Dream Possible then is if i could
    Go Back to the Stressful Routine of Work

    Even Part Time for 20 Hours or So to get
    Meaning and Purpose and Making Some Kind
    of Impact in this World Again i Mostly Kept Rehashing
    The Story of the Pain and Numb Ironically to Try to get
    My Mind off the Pain and Numb Yet With a Dentist Drill
    Without Novocaine in Metaphor of Severity in my Right Eye

    And Ear Effective Use of Seeing and Hearing with Those Human
    Sensory Organs Almost Impossible to Use at all for the first 33 Months
    Until i Weathered a Mountain of Pain Yes as You’ve Heard that Part of this
    Story before on a Website Called the ‘Wrong Planet’ on ThanksGiving Day of 2010

    Every Word Another Mountain of Pain Without my Prescription Shades as any additional
    Focus would Bring Additional Pain Just a couple of inches from the Screen with the Brightness

    Turned all the Way
    Down for some way
    Other than Talking About
    the Pain to get my Mind

    Partially off of the Pain
    And Numb of the Dungeon

    Within
    Then Now

    Rewind to the 1972
    And 1973 Miami Super Bowl
    At Ages 11 and 12 Watching
    my Favorite Football Team Winning
    Those Years Champions Elite they Were

    Then My High School Cheerleading Then From the
    Stands State Runner Up in 1977 before i Graduated
    in 1978 Winning Consecutive State Championships
    in 1978 and 1979 And After that the Tribal Sport that

    Increases the Self-Esteem of Both the Winning Team and
    Fans of Florida State Football in the Incredible Bobby Bowden
    Coach Winning Decade True i Looked Forward to Football Season

    More Than Work Every Year

    And Wondered What Else

    Would i Do When i Retired too

    True Down for the Count my Sister
    Said Start a New Chapter of My Life

    In Short of Course i Did With an EPiC
    Long Form Poem “SonG oF mY SoUL”

    Still FLoWinG As The River Does God Yes

    All 15 MiLLioN Words in 149 Months Since
    Rising Out of the Ashes of the Living Dead
    Hell for those 66 Months Literally Writing Online

    Every God D Day Through Hell Through Heaven
    Through COVID 19 3 times for Precisely the last

    5555 Days as of today February 8, 2026 ever since

    November 25, 2010 WITHOUT FAIL it’s all that kept

    me from ending my Life Starting that Thanks Giving Day

    in 2010 Plus of Course the Love And Support of my Wife and Very
    Immediate Family even though i Couldn’t Feel a G Damned Thing

    True i was very
    Bruised for the
    Only Offense of
    Never Saying No
    to Demands of me at Work

    No Is a Powerful Word an Impact
    Personally that may Literally Save a Life

    And Indeed Words Are Powerful tools when
    They Connect With Healing Human Emotions in Free
    Verse Poetry and No Longer Just Empty Shells On A Beach

    Indeed the
    Nautilus

    of me

    is Alive again
    With a Spiraling
    Shell Dance Like
    A Milky Way on Earth

    For 23,203 Miles Yes
    Now in Public Every
    Where We Go for the
    Last 149 Months too

    Have i Made an Impact in Life

    All That Really Counts is i’m
    Still Breathing With A SMiLe

    i Feel and
    Am Able
    to Give away
    For Free These
    Just Fumes on Your
    Page for the Impact

    of a Human With A
    Breathing Soul Again Yes

    With
    SMiLes…

    Any Way Thanks
    For Providing Free
    Place for mY Story

    oF SMiLes

    to
    continue
    to BREaTHE Free…

    Indeed my FRiEnD
    Your Impact in this
    World is Very Much
    Appreciated from my View..:)

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