Dear Friends,

Well, Well, Well. I know what you are all thinking. Anthony's back. I am writing you to let you know that it is true. I am a little more mature now. I am a little more experienced. Yet more importantly I am a little more creative and I have a whole lot more boggled up in my head. So as I have said in the past, I am gonna empty out this noggin on you and hopefully you enjoy the wonderful and crazy yet in-debth thoughts of Anthony J Doria.

So I caught myself today. Actually I thought about catching myself and thanks to a good friend I was able to confirm the catching of myself. (yah, I know :o) See I was playing hide and go seek. I went and hid from myself and then I started counting to a hundered. This is a fun game to play with yourself everyonce in a while. I think it is anyway. Sometimes it is good to get away from yourself for a couple seconds (maybe a hundered or so). There are just somethings to remember when you do. See when you are hiding from yourself, in a sence, you have actually lost yourself. It is alright to lose yourself in certain things. Dreams, Love, Career, School, Family, Work. We all lose ourselves in these things from time to time. We just cover our eyes, start counting and then go run and hide. I am guilty myself of hiding in my work. (Notice I said 'work' and not 'Career', very important) Now, what I realized while hiding out is the other thing you have to remember when playing hide and go seek with yourself. You have to remember... after one hundered, you have to open your eyes and go find yourself. I didn't do that. When I got to one hundered I just keep counting. 200. 500. Pretty soon it was seven months of counting. My mouth was getting dry. More importantly I couldn't find myself anywhere. I
looked in my work. No Anthony. I looked in my love. Nada. I even looked in my dream. Nothing. I had run away from myself. And if you are following at all you are probably wondering why (or what I have been smoking.) I will tell you why. I was dissapointed in myself. Why was I dissapointed? Because I had neglected myself. I had neglected what makes me happy. The best part about playing hide and go seek with yourself is the finding. Because it makes you (the finder) feel good about keeping yourself on the right path. But more importantly it also makes you (the findee) feel good because you are not letting you sway off the path. The path of happiness. The path that you know if you follow will always bring the doors that supply the entrances and exits to accomplishing your dreams. So I say to all of you friends, if you started a game of hide and go seek with yourself..... Call Ali Oxen Free. You are probably worried that you aren't coming to find you.

Love you guys,

Anthony J Doria

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