mr. bill and reasons why he is the greatest man alive!

if you don't know the wonderful mr. william timberlake... well, i'll just have to fill you in.. because he is the greatest individual i have ever come across. way too good to miss out on. this blog will consist of many "mr. bill always says"s

i went to lunch with mr bill today to have one of our long missed talks, and the 72 year old man hasn't changed a cent since i met him 3 years ago at Mobil. looking me straight in the eye, gesturing his veiny but stren hands in my direction, mr. bill said, "now, the most important thing in life is to love yourself and do what's best for you! because there's not anybody in this world who's going to be able to love you more than yourself."

mr bill is famous for his wise maxims... and somehow, they always seem to pop up just when i need them in some god-sent fashion. Today mr bill started talking about the past... and how once we move forward, we should never go back... because it only hurts. He used the analogy of a new car.. he said if the time comes and you decide to get rid of the old car you've been driving for years and invest in a new one.. and then something doesn't work out.. you can't pay for it etc.. you still need to find a way to move forward. going back to the old car is like eating regurgitated food. (alright, he didn't say that, but that's what i made of it)

the irony of the situation is that today as i was driving home from a meeting for work (before lunch), i decided to turn left and drive past Atholton. i ended up pulling into the empty junior parking lot and sitting in park in front of the school i spent the past four years of my life in. i began reminising over all of the memories, growth, laughs, pain, challenge, fun i've experienced in that school. and then i just cried. haha. i hadn't been emotional about leaving high school once until today. when i sat there. and i realized how much that place has meant to me and that i'm really moving on.
i took a deep breath, put the car in drive, and went home.

i don't intend on never going back.. i mean, i'll watch a soccer game.. or bball game or musical or what have you.. but man, it was just really good to hear mr bill say that. once you go... you've gotta keep going. it's so easy to look back and feel nostalgic. about anything.. an old place, and old friend, an old love, an old feeling.. i mean, it's more natural to do that than to just go and go and go... but it's so important not to get lost in the past, but to move forward with every new day.


mr bill also consistantly talks to me about finding "the right kind of man".. haha, he always says to me... don't give away your love until the man has worked for it. it's funny, because i don't want to make "my love" some kind of task to work for... but the truth is, i really do have standards, and i really am concerned with someone wanting to be in a functional relationship. mr bill always says, "now.. the three most important things in a relationship are trust, communication, and walking hand in hand. it's continually working for one another so that when the time comes and you're older and someone's health starts to go, you'll always have those things you started with to fall back on." granted, i'm not planning on getting married any time soon.. at all.. but i don't really intend on being in a kind of half-assed relationship either. (which is why i'm just never in them)

anyway, i wish everyone could sit down and have mr. bill talk to them with his veiny hands pointing sternly and his old gaze looking them in the eye.. but since there's only one of him and however many billion of us.. hopfully, something can be taken from this blog.

leaving you with some mr bill maxims: (imagine a 5'6'' 72 yr old man with a sist on the side of his face and a funny souther drawl saying these with a sterm but friendly smile)

"every day's a good day... because i make it one!"
"ahhh... i'm the best!"
"my pops always said that if he found out from anyone in town that i had done something bad, instead of from me, that i'd be more sorry than moonshine. i always ran to him and told him whenever i got my hands into trouble!"
"when god does something that i'm not happy about, i go out onto the middle of the football field at night, raise my arms, and let him hear it!"
"life's not worth arguing over. when people try to argue with me, i just say, 'okay! you're right!' and walk away"
"respect everyone. you never know when you'll be where they are."
"when the man treats the woman like a queen, the woman will give the man the best sex he's ever had." (yes, it gets sort of awkward when mr. bill talks to me about sex. hahaha
"BE WHO YOU ARE, and don't let anyone tell you what's best for you."


"it's time to walk out into the world and show them the wonderful person that you are"

(you heard the man, go on now! show em!)