BONUS BLOG - AUGUST 23, 2010, "Passion"

One day I won’t need angels.  One day I hope to just be one.  But I’ve had quite a few.

MJ, my most recent “confidence angel” was a co-worker of mine at my very first job out of college.  We weren’t pals 35 years ago when we worked together.  But those times we encountered each other back then in our business environment were some of the best moments at that job.  Always a smile.  Always a comedic crack or two.  It was special.  But I moved on.  So did she.  She became just another former co-worker. One encounters many former co-workers over a 35-year span.  She was one of many.

Mike Buday - just Buday to most of us - is another angel.  This man has been a consistent friend to me longer than anyone I have I ever known.  We weren’t always “pals.”  We still don’t “pal around” all that much.  But he’s a friend.  The best.  And certainly an angel that has seen me through some stuff.  We were in college together.

MJ is a Community Columnist with The Florida Times Union daily newspaper in Jacksonville, Florida.  We found each other again on Facebook in May of 2009.  Many good friends encouraged me to try this Lunar thing.  But none encouraged me like she did.  And none have stuck by me the way she has.  It was MJ who gave me the confidence to forge ahead, to follow, not my dreams this time, but my passion.  

Buday is my age.  He has a pretty good job.  He could survive nicely until Social Security kicks in.  A few nights ago we talked about his passion for something else.  Something he really excels in.  It will mean leaving his “pretty good job.”  The excitement I heard in my old friend’s voice that night made it clear to me what can be his only choice.  This man is ready to leave that job and follow his heart.  When it comes to encouragement, I’m no MJ.  But I hope like hell he does it.

I don’t know, y’all.  I’ve never been 56 years old before.  Is it right to follow our passions so late in life?  I kind of know how MJ and Mike would answer that question.  My answer, I’m guessing, is much like theirs.  If not now, then when?

Click HERE to read some of MJ’s work.

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Posted by David Moon at 8/23/2010 12:03 PM
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