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Lisa's Dear Me Letter

For the Dear Me Contest
747 Words


Dear Me,

It is now 2016 and I just can not believe it, it seems like yesterday, I was graduating high school.
But that was in 1985. I’m old you know! Time flies to where I can’t even keep up with the date.
I stay on the computer at writing.com so much that I have no other life really. But that is how I want it.
I don’t want the excitement of the outside world. Perhaps I’m a bit of a shut in, it comes from being sick and having to stay away from the public so I don’t catch a cold or flu or anything because I have the interstitial lung disease and I can die if I get pneumonia or even from a cold if it is bad enough. I’m already on oxygen 24/7, and boy am I tired of that. But the one thing I will not do in 2016 is complain I’ve been pretty good about it, so that is my resolution I will not complain about things I can not change, there is a reason for everything, and some day I guess I'll learn the reason for my illness. But it is not as bad as so many others so I am grateful to the Lord above all.

In 2016 I will give more of myself to religion, I will worship our God more and remember him in all that I do. I will learn to accept people of all walks of life and to know they are my equals. I will be the butterfly
Soft and beautiful fluttering around all who come near showing the beauty of itself. I will work hard for the Cancer society because I just know they are getting closer to finding a cure for it. My father and both grand fathers died of lung cancer, and I myself have severe lung problems that has to be checked every 3 months in case the spots on my lungs turn to cancer. It is a frightening thing for sure to know that any moment you may die because of a simple thing like a cold. So I will sponso someone in the walk-a-thon, and will donate to the rummage sales and I will earn money for the society they deserve it, we must find a cure soon.

With my writing I am going to take on a new project in the Non fiction group. I did a project for 2015 about my family history. Now I may do one on the personal journey through ill health, hospitalization, surgeries and all. I think it would blow people’s mind to know all that I have endured in the past 20 years.
They will think it is made up. I am not doing this project to get sympathy or to complain, I’m doing it for those who will be going through much of what I have been through. Or worse. I’m also doing it for a release of this excess energy I have on the subject of health. It is a good outlet.

I like to enjoy my reviewing that I do at writing.com. I will try to improve it if possible. I’ve just changed the format of my reviews to make them appear smaller, and I cut down the entry or welcome and I am trying to write more about the poem or story or what have you. I use to put a lot of excerpts of the people’s
Work in my reviews but I decided not to do that as much this year.

Another thing I plan to do this year is to take a refresher course on grammar and punctuation. I have a terrible time with that. I guess it is partially because I am from the south and we don’t have the best skill with proper grammar. But that’s ok I’m proud to be from the south I love it I was born in Texas
Raised in Mississippi, Now I live in Kentucky. So you see I have a unique accent that’s not quite southern, not quite Mountain but something in between. But my voice and accent was good enough to get me a job telling the news, sports, and weather, on the radio every day at noon and six. So I’m not ashamed of my accent but I do want my writing to be properly and professionally polished.

Well I think I’ve come to the end of the trail so I think I’ll say good bye.

Sincerely
Lisa Noe~kittylove