Is this everything that you hoped for, is this everything you've dreamed?

Today I'm living in the Hartford airport. I've been here since 11:30am and will be departing at 5:50. I've walked up and down the quarter mile stretch of this terminal 2-3 times. I found my favorite bagel shop and an awesome advertisement that you'd have to see to believe. There are 4 projected images on a while wall. The image resembles the shape of an umbrella, which is constructed from thousands of other tiny red umbrellas. When passing by the image, if any shadow hits it, the tiny umbrellas scatter. This thing is hi-tech! If you hit the bottom, the bottom pieces scatter, and slowly float back. If your shadow hits the top, it scatters too...2 places at once...three. Then comes the issue of speed. The faster your shadow grazes the image, the quicker and further away the pieces scatter. I can sit down and pinpoint the technology behind this presentation, but I'd rather just think it's some sort of magic.

I'm tired of being here, but not yet annoyed. I am at the mercy of the airline and the building I am stuck in. I can leave, of course, but we all know how difficult and expensive that becomes so I am bound by laziness and financial instability. I am limited to the foods I can choose from, entertainment beyond computers, cell phones and watching the flights arrive and depart. In addition, I've seen my share of irate passengers this morning, but that's another story in itself. I am waiting on something that cannot happen until it decides to and I can do nothing to change it. My computer limits me to social networking on Facebook as Myspace and YouTube are blocked...and when you run an internet marketing company based around social networking on a Thursday afternoon, you tend to be at a loss for much productivity.

I live by myself. I am the owner of two companies and a non-profit organization. I guess you could say I like calling the shots. The world's potential is limitless and I am only limited to the constraints of time, energy and creativity. I set my goals far in advance and make most of my desicions on a whim. That being said, being confined to this airport for the day is not my idea of freedom. It makes me think about people in this world who don't have the freedoms that I have and how this site just makes me want to work harder everyday to do my part to help one more person have one more chance at...something. Anything. At living, and learning, seeing, feeling, knowing, doing - at experiencing life. It's hard when you see everyone pass by you and you feel so helpless in aiding any of the thousands of problems that cross your path each day. I have problems. I have many problems. I have more problems bombard me every day than solutions, but isn't that just part of life. I can handle my problems. I can handle them so well that I take on the problems of others. I used to think it was all too large to even dent, until I began trying. I've seen so many tiny solutions take care of such large problems. I've seen the viral nature of helping spread across this site and across a culture. I know I can help and I know you can too.

I had the pleasure of seeing an amazing artist last night in Philly. His name is Bryce Avary, but you may know him better as The Rocket Summer. I know I get on this site and rant and rave about artists every day, but most of them make my heart beat for reasons beyond their raw mind, spirt and talent. I know what marketing is. That's what I "do." I know I cite the Backstreet Boys as changing my life at one point in time because somebody else created them. I know that a pop song is just a pop song and that a good hook is designed to "hook" you in. Music is amazing and it makes me feel like the world is worth living in, but it's rare that I come across genuine people, especially in this industry. Not so long ago I would have continued this blog with something like..."I know I don't know him, or everything about him but..." Makes sense. It's pretty true. "but..." as I grow older I find that I have more faith in myself and my ability to see genuinity in people. I have seen him play quite a few times over the years, and I'll be the first to say that it wasn't "my thing" from the beginning. In fact, when I felt myself falling for the hapiness being poured out over an audience and seeping into me I questioned its geniuinity, but that fact that it took three performances for me to fall told me two things...1. I watched an artist grow into his own. 2. Life isn't always a chain of instantaneous events that make you happy based on a strong marketing campaign. Life is living. Living for today. Living for tomorrow. Living for yourself. Living for others. Life -- is limited, but what we do with the time we are given is open to each person's ability to succeed within and beyond their limits based on their own motivations and the tools that they are offered to succeed. Sometimes we can't beat limitation, but we can decide how we limit ourselves.

This is something that I've learned and I feel that the words and genuinity of this artist have done a lot in reminding me of these things. Sometimes you find a good movie with a good soundtrack. Sometimes you find one for your life. This time, I found one for not only my life and the things I want to do in it, but I feel like his last album was created as the soundtrack to this website. Those 13 tracks are constructed to sum up a year of blogs. Thank you Bryce, for inspiring me to get up off my ass and realize this site and the 2 years I've invested in it are not limited to anything but the limits that I put on it. I love to quote lyrics. It's what I do best, and I have about 20 of his floating in my head right now that would sum up this installment of Jade's mind glowing on your desktop, but I'll let him sum it up for me. Please comment below and let me know what this video says to you. It says more to me than I have space to write here. Yes, I know space on this site in unlimited. I know that. That's how it makes me feel. UNlimited.

Search "Do You Feel The Rocket Summer" on YouTube. I know it's on FriendsorEnemies.com too but the airport internet is limiting me to fining it. sigh. I'll link it here later.

I don't want to be limited by disease, lack of funds, abandonment, addiction problems or just the way it's always been. Being at the point where I feel like I have some control over fighting past my limitations; I want to do my part to help others fight their way past theirs. Thus, we are here. It's not too big. We're too big for it!

Oh, and while you're drowning in some new music, check it Call It Captivate. They have the same idea as us. When you purchase a tee, a portion of the proceeds from your purchase goes to the charity of your choice! I need to do some shopping...