A Brief Word from Tempy to Anyone that wants to read it and is willing to forgive any odd spellings or grammatical errors.

	The word Brief might be a little misleading and I know that many of you are either going to not read any of this, or tune out long before I get to the end, but that's your problem, not mine.

	Back in the old days, mankind created things with little care about anything apart from keeping alive to carry on for the sake of the group. Of course, these pre-history days, we don't know too much about, thus the term 'Pre-history', meaning BEFORE Recorded History. So lets skip to more recorded times.. The Writer wrote a book. They wrote it and signed there name and that book would be remembered forever more. well.. not always, some books are kinda forgotten but go with me here. The Painter, painting a picture which would be remember forever more.. The Designer, designed a building, the Builder made it.. The building would be remembered forever more.. The Comic artist and Writers who draw the story and write it, there story would be remembered forever more... Most of the time, people remember not just the work, but the creator due to there work. Many people know of Leonardo (and I don't mean the Green Hero in a half shell here) De Vinci, They know Oscar Wilde, Antoni Gaudi (Okay.. some of you guys aren't going to know the designer Gaudi.. his masterpiece still isn't finished though it was started in 1883 (well. the project was 1882 but never mind) and he died in 1926.. It's the Basílica I Temple Expiatori de la Sagrada Família! ¬_¬ look it up), Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko and I can list a bunch more people but why bother.. you get the idea.

	Today.. We live in a Digital Age.. Once a Comic is printed, there are TONS of Solid copies out there. The more popular stuff gets reprinted and it's still there long after the creators have died. But in this Digital Age, where things aren't real, but stored via flipping switches inside a computer, what will happen? Sure, people download something, back it up, tons of computers around the world have it, so it's not that easy to lose forever.. but is it? I am a Digital artist, in that I’m an Artist whose works are completed on computer and that is how I share my work. I run this site to house them, or at lest, an amount of them. What happens when I die? If the Painter dies, the Painting still lives, and in it, part of the artist. If a writer dies, the Book still lives.. But what about the Digital artist? When I die.. What will happen? The Site won't last.. Think about it.. It's there because hosting bills are paid to a company that gives over some space for it to be there. If I’m not there, then how will the bills get paid? (well.. I don't pay them myself but you get the idea) If they aren't paid, which they won't be, then they delete the site.. It's gone for good. Sure, some places do Backups for archive reasons but they rarely keep Everything at every time.. That would be an impossible dream.. When no windmills are left to fight, and the dreamer is gone and reached that Impossible star, what is left? My site will be deleted, my name forgotten, my images wiped over. Gone.. My Legacy is no more.

	In my life, to date, I have been lucky enough to be found in print but once. Thanks to a very great Gal whom I have never met, lives in a country that I am unlikely to ever visit in my life time. Once, she gave me some advice.. "Don't measure yourself against others" was the basics of it. It's very important to remember. I'm not the best at what I do, and I’m far from the worse. But If I compare myself to some, I’m as good as the worse.. compared to others? I'm the best thing since the pencil first wrote on the paper. While the second one might be nice to think of, it means I lose the sense to grow and improve. One most never lose that, but if I compare myself to the first.. Designer, I would give up completely as all my years have come to nothing. I'll just work everyday, trying to make sure each image is better, or at lest as good, as the last.. But what for? Will I be remembered? Friends will remember me.. Family will remember me.. People I dare call friends will remember me.. Fans? maybe some yes.. But they will die. My site will be deleted, my work disappear until nothing remains. No great Legacy. I may have a tombstone but over time, it'll be forgotten and decay.. and after X amount of years... it's officially given up so the small space can be reused, as space is limited. I said about Gaudi before.. He died in 1926, like I said.. Soon, to be one hundred years ago and he is still known today.. Queen Elizabeth Tudor of England died 1603.. That's some time ago.. she is still known today. William the first of England (William the Second of Normandy) died 1087.. still remembered.. When this much time has passed again, they still will be, but will I? not a chance and there is little in life I can do to make sure I will be.

	Really, this gives one reason to quit life itself, but that would be throwing away everything I have been given and earn to this point. I won't say any names directly in this, though it's clear to many how the people are, and I hope clear to them, but I have been given a lot. My parents gave me life and a upbringing, my teachers gave me interest in knowledge and learning, my friends gave my fun and company, Tons of people gave me an interest in art, A forum gave me my start in adult art life, a good friend gave me a site, Flying friends, and welsh friends gave me support, the Great Gal gave me a new site when needed and support and more then I could ever hope for.. I have tried to repay my friends for there help in what ways I can, yet I often feel it is not nearly enough... How much of an insult to them would if be for me to just end it all? throw it all away unto the black void..

	I do Not know my destiny.. Very few people ever learn it in there life time. What may seam like a small thing, can be something huge in the end. Did the guy that first worked out electricity know it would lead to the computer? (No.. it wasn't Franklin.. he just discovered Natural Electricity after being interested in the subject by a friend). What if it's my destiny to draw just one picture.. but in order to draw that picture, I need to draw hundreds more to gave skill and experience.. Once I’ve drawn that picture, nothing will happen. No bells will ring, no heavenly choir shall call my name but maybe.. Years later, someone will see that.. and get an idea.. It will inspire them to do something themselves and then they train or inspire others that might create something that at one point, for just one moment in time, saves the lives of everyone! Would my live be spent for a good cause then? I'll never know that it has lead to it, I’ll be long dead, but it will lead to something and if I throw it away, it'll never come to pass.. Maybe Destiny will find someone else to fill in the role... If it's the ultimate Destiny for it to happen, it will. But it'll be just that bit different.. Maybe because of that, Not everyone will be saved.. 10 people die.. One of them would be the great grand father of a guy that saved the universe.. Then we are doomed as a race.. unless someone else creates that guy, but he will be a bit different.. Maybe he won't care as much for some animal and that leads to that race being wiped out, which leads to all kinds of things...

	Destiny has an ultimate goal BUT how it plays is up to all of us. Do I do the job today? or Tomorrow? If I do it today, it's done a day earlier giving me that extra day to do something else, that could lead to one ending.. but if I do it tomorrow, I don't have that extra day and a completely different ending will happen.. Its possible, that the Ending will be better.. Or worse.. OR just Different.. Who can say? No-one.. We can't even look back on history and see what might have happened, cause once we have seen it, we are tainted by it. We can't say "Oh, this guy invented the computer, without him we wouldn't have it" cause if he didn't invent it, maybe someone else would have.. It's completely impossible to see.. We can just try our best to do what we can..

	Has this been a waste of your time? Maybe.. Maybe not.. Has it been a waste of my time to write it? Will.. Picture this.. I write it.. Someone reads it.. That person thinks about it.. They decide to make there life really count for something and that Something is good. That would be a good outcome right? I shouldn't really hold up my life to someone else and compare it.. Compared to some, I’ve done nothing of note.. Compared to others? I have gone a lot of good.. It's true, if you add up all the money I’ve helped raise for charity’s and such like, it does come to a goodly sum.. Look at all the money I’ve earnt? not much.. but what is I earn £1. Just that. I buy something with it. That seller now has that extra money to do something with.. and who knows what it'll led too.. People say Hitler was a bad guy, but look at all the good that has come out of him being the villain.. Was it his destiny to play the role, so that all the good things happen? the balance between good and evil needs to be just that, a balance..

	I think I’ve rambled enough.. Destiny will tell if something good comes out of this or not.. But no matter what. Just it being there means something has happened in some small way..