Another day, another day. Sometimes you just have to tell yourself that it is just another day. A day to do this and to get that done - and just another day to live in general and to be - well you.
But it isn't always that easy you know. From time to time, you just want everything to be *perfect*. You want life to make sense and you want it to do so - NOW! And you cry and whine and throw your fits and kick and scream and....then you realize that all you are really doing is just wasting your time because what is the point?
No matter how much you scream, kick, cry, whine, bit, yell, throw punches at the world - it isn't going to change. It is just going to sit there with its smug pale grin and laugh at you as you become exhausted and dried out of the passions of life. Then, when it is all said and done and you're all spent - you realize that had you just waited it out...life *would* have gotten better. You just had to learn to sit still and wait for the tide to come in and knock you down so you could get back up again, dust your face off, dry your clothes and figure out that all you have to do is move to be okay.
But instead, most of us do throw out punches at the world and call it all the names we can conjure - because it makes us feel like we have some kind of power in the grand scheme of things. But the thing is - we really don't have any power in the grand scheme of it all. Instead, we are here for a while to get knocked over...but the catch is that we can learn from it. You get hit with a flood, what do you do? Build a dam. You get beat in a fight, what do you do? Learn self-defense, train...gain the knowledge to not fall so hard next time.
See, even though you know the trouble will come again - you don't run from it. You don't make provisions is it should *not* come back. No, you learn and you grow and you make provisions for when the flood does it, you learn skills for when you do get attacked. You grow up and you learn not to put your hand in the fire - even though you still get burned from the world around you. It isn't about stopping the pain or the trials...it is just about learning from the ones before and getting throught the ones to come.
That's life. That is what the race is all about. It isn't about sprinting to the finish line - but lasting through the 50 mile hike. It isn't about gulping down a gallon of water at the rest stop - but having enough to last till the next one comes along. That's what it is that we do here...that's why things aren't okay *NOW*; that's why life is always just a little harder - and that's why we can make it. Because it is all about making it - getting through; and learning from what you and those before you did wrong.
-RK
But it isn't always that easy you know. From time to time, you just want everything to be *perfect*. You want life to make sense and you want it to do so - NOW! And you cry and whine and throw your fits and kick and scream and....then you realize that all you are really doing is just wasting your time because what is the point?
No matter how much you scream, kick, cry, whine, bit, yell, throw punches at the world - it isn't going to change. It is just going to sit there with its smug pale grin and laugh at you as you become exhausted and dried out of the passions of life. Then, when it is all said and done and you're all spent - you realize that had you just waited it out...life *would* have gotten better. You just had to learn to sit still and wait for the tide to come in and knock you down so you could get back up again, dust your face off, dry your clothes and figure out that all you have to do is move to be okay.
But instead, most of us do throw out punches at the world and call it all the names we can conjure - because it makes us feel like we have some kind of power in the grand scheme of things. But the thing is - we really don't have any power in the grand scheme of it all. Instead, we are here for a while to get knocked over...but the catch is that we can learn from it. You get hit with a flood, what do you do? Build a dam. You get beat in a fight, what do you do? Learn self-defense, train...gain the knowledge to not fall so hard next time.
See, even though you know the trouble will come again - you don't run from it. You don't make provisions is it should *not* come back. No, you learn and you grow and you make provisions for when the flood does it, you learn skills for when you do get attacked. You grow up and you learn not to put your hand in the fire - even though you still get burned from the world around you. It isn't about stopping the pain or the trials...it is just about learning from the ones before and getting throught the ones to come.
That's life. That is what the race is all about. It isn't about sprinting to the finish line - but lasting through the 50 mile hike. It isn't about gulping down a gallon of water at the rest stop - but having enough to last till the next one comes along. That's what it is that we do here...that's why things aren't okay *NOW*; that's why life is always just a little harder - and that's why we can make it. Because it is all about making it - getting through; and learning from what you and those before you did wrong.
-RK
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