Welcome to The Best Day Of My Life,
Can I ask you a question?
If you were to ask your self right now, could I give up everything I own and still be happy? Could you?
Now I am not asking if you would be comfortable, just happy with your life. Afterall, that's what life boils down to isn't it? Life, Love and the pursuit of happiness! Why would ANYONE one to get out of bed for their miserable crappy life. Well guess what? It's your life, and you can change it. So let's do this thing already!
If you are saying to yourself, "but Shaun, I am happy!" Are you really? If you are happy, is it because you have a new pair of Milano Blanc shoes in the closet? If the answer is yes, then I am sorry to have to break the news to you like this, but hey it's a grim reality baby, and those shoes are only a tempory fix. Just to make this even guys...... are you happy because you have that new 12" Dewalt swivel Arm Radial Saw with Laser projected cut lines? Well I am sorry to have to break the news..... done!
The world is full of greed, selfishness, and far too much money! For some of us, we feel the need to obtain more and more stuff to make us happy. I am guilty of this, to this very day, but it will never keep the happiness train going for long. Eventually you run out of stuff to make you happy, and then where do you turn? Yourself? Well, do you like yourself enough to be alone with yourself? Do you even really know yourself? I ask these questions, because before you can turn any life around, you must be ok with the person in charge of that crusade, YOU!
This project has really been a life long effort on my part, in a roundaboutish way. I say that because my whole life I dreamed of writing a book. The problem was, I could never figure out what I would write it about. It's funny how things work out....... here I am, my whole life and no idea, then poof! It's a book about my whole life! Crazy! Now when I say whole life, I am really talking about the last 5 years of my life in particular, but in order to tell my story, there is a lot of past history that you need to know, in order to truly understand what my life was like, before I was able to figure everything out inside me.
I have never written a book in my life, or of my life for that matter, so I just told the story from where my life began it's quick decent to rock bottom, Finally! The story actually starts 5 minutes before the accident that would change everything in my life for ever. The books timeline is written in a linear fashion with each new chapter being the next stage of events that occured over that 5 year period. Though, throughout each chapter I dive back and forth into the past and present to help you understand who I am, and what I am all about.
In my opinion, everyone could write a book about somepart of their life. We have all suffered tragedy in our lives, heartache, struggles, fear, and everything else that comes with life. Isn't that enough of a story right there? Why make ANYTHING up, when you have life! This story is 100% true, and again, I have no need to glorify anything here, enhance, modify, or anything else. My life was messed up and that was bad enough, so I just put it down on paper(electronic)!
I am no amazing person by any means. I have no life that would wow you right out of your chair. I am just a guy that has decided to tell his story in hopes that others might find inspiration in what they have read, and possibly help them or others in some way. This book is a way for me to open up all of my mistakes and character defects, and let myself completely out of the prison my life was in. A way to cleanse the last remaining bits of negativity from life if you will. Ahhhhhhhhhh....... it feels good!
One more question.........
If you could go back and do it all over again, would you? Do you want to know my answer?
No, I would not and here is why. Life will always throw challenges and obsticals your way. So even if we had all the knowledge we have now, and could do everything all over again just right, we'd still be faced with everything life has to offer. I guess what I am saying is that, even if you took the left this time, and not the right, you still have the potential of getting lost! Do you know what I am saying? No guarentees!
As I sit here writing this book, my life is insanely tough to get through right now. But now i have the ability to look at each day and obstacle in a new light. Getting myself figured out inside, and then properly medicated so I could function sanely on the outside, made this possible. It was a lot of work, tears, pain, misery, heartache.... etc. etc. Why would I want to go through something that tough again? No "better" decisions would have changed my chemical make up inside. It's my life and I lived it, so here it is..............
I hope you find something in here that sticks with you. Enjoy....
-Shaun
Can I ask you a question?
If you were to ask your self right now, could I give up everything I own and still be happy? Could you?
Now I am not asking if you would be comfortable, just happy with your life. Afterall, that's what life boils down to isn't it? Life, Love and the pursuit of happiness! Why would ANYONE one to get out of bed for their miserable crappy life. Well guess what? It's your life, and you can change it. So let's do this thing already!
If you are saying to yourself, "but Shaun, I am happy!" Are you really? If you are happy, is it because you have a new pair of Milano Blanc shoes in the closet? If the answer is yes, then I am sorry to have to break the news to you like this, but hey it's a grim reality baby, and those shoes are only a tempory fix. Just to make this even guys...... are you happy because you have that new 12" Dewalt swivel Arm Radial Saw with Laser projected cut lines? Well I am sorry to have to break the news..... done!
The world is full of greed, selfishness, and far too much money! For some of us, we feel the need to obtain more and more stuff to make us happy. I am guilty of this, to this very day, but it will never keep the happiness train going for long. Eventually you run out of stuff to make you happy, and then where do you turn? Yourself? Well, do you like yourself enough to be alone with yourself? Do you even really know yourself? I ask these questions, because before you can turn any life around, you must be ok with the person in charge of that crusade, YOU!
This project has really been a life long effort on my part, in a roundaboutish way. I say that because my whole life I dreamed of writing a book. The problem was, I could never figure out what I would write it about. It's funny how things work out....... here I am, my whole life and no idea, then poof! It's a book about my whole life! Crazy! Now when I say whole life, I am really talking about the last 5 years of my life in particular, but in order to tell my story, there is a lot of past history that you need to know, in order to truly understand what my life was like, before I was able to figure everything out inside me.
I have never written a book in my life, or of my life for that matter, so I just told the story from where my life began it's quick decent to rock bottom, Finally! The story actually starts 5 minutes before the accident that would change everything in my life for ever. The books timeline is written in a linear fashion with each new chapter being the next stage of events that occured over that 5 year period. Though, throughout each chapter I dive back and forth into the past and present to help you understand who I am, and what I am all about.
In my opinion, everyone could write a book about somepart of their life. We have all suffered tragedy in our lives, heartache, struggles, fear, and everything else that comes with life. Isn't that enough of a story right there? Why make ANYTHING up, when you have life! This story is 100% true, and again, I have no need to glorify anything here, enhance, modify, or anything else. My life was messed up and that was bad enough, so I just put it down on paper(electronic)!
I am no amazing person by any means. I have no life that would wow you right out of your chair. I am just a guy that has decided to tell his story in hopes that others might find inspiration in what they have read, and possibly help them or others in some way. This book is a way for me to open up all of my mistakes and character defects, and let myself completely out of the prison my life was in. A way to cleanse the last remaining bits of negativity from life if you will. Ahhhhhhhhhh....... it feels good!
One more question.........
If you could go back and do it all over again, would you? Do you want to know my answer?
No, I would not and here is why. Life will always throw challenges and obsticals your way. So even if we had all the knowledge we have now, and could do everything all over again just right, we'd still be faced with everything life has to offer. I guess what I am saying is that, even if you took the left this time, and not the right, you still have the potential of getting lost! Do you know what I am saying? No guarentees!
As I sit here writing this book, my life is insanely tough to get through right now. But now i have the ability to look at each day and obstacle in a new light. Getting myself figured out inside, and then properly medicated so I could function sanely on the outside, made this possible. It was a lot of work, tears, pain, misery, heartache.... etc. etc. Why would I want to go through something that tough again? No "better" decisions would have changed my chemical make up inside. It's my life and I lived it, so here it is..............
I hope you find something in here that sticks with you. Enjoy....
-Shaun