Life is a grand adventure.
Most of the time, it doesn't seem to be this way. Most of the time, we live in the realm of complacency. It's the world of maybe and the universe of 'what if?'
In more recent years, I've found that life is what you make it. If you put your whole being into becoming an athlete, that's exactly what you'll get back in return, an athletic talent or toned body (whichever comes first).
So in the same way, if you spend all day focusing on yourself, your needs, and your desires, that's exactly what will come back to you in the end. Is that the life you want to lead?
One about...you?
Unanswered questions are generally treated as an enemy. To live in the unknown is to give up control of your life. When we are concentrated so heavily on ourselves, we lose control.
I cannot control what will happen tomorrow. No matter how hard I try, things will never go exactly according to plan. Life is too messy...too unpredictable.
Have you ever just tried to listen?
I'm not talking about with people, or music, or random noise, I'm talking about just listening...
Listening to your soul, and the souls of those around you. You can sometimes hear God in those moments. He doesn't draw an arrow in your path saying GO HERE NOW!
If you listen carefully, he's showing you where to go. You may go left when he says right, but somehow you end up right where you were supposed to be. It is in these moments that our character is decided. You have to decide who you are going to be and how you are going to turn it into a story worth telling.
At the end of the day, you have to eliminate the 'maybe' and destroy the 'what if?'
Because these are the words that stop you from creating a single act that will change lives.
Live in the now so that tomorrow will become easier to overcome.
