"IT IS IMPORTANT TO measure success NOT AGAINST WHAT others have done, BUT instead BY WHAT we have done FOR others."
To everyone who is patiently waiting,
Waiting for a job opportunity, a passion, a girl, a dream -- have faith, you are in the right place. Waiting is not a bad thing to be doing and, although at times it hurts like nothing else and confuses even the wisest of us, don’t stop. If I may, although it’s not my place, I would like to offer the following:
Sometimes it’s not about knowing; but rather believing that, regardless of the outcome, you will still be standing there at the end of the day screaming “it was all worth it”. You see, the trick to making it through life without ripping all of your hair out is first and foremost about realizing that you are not alone in your struggle or in your confusion about it. Secondly, it is vital to come to an understanding that pain is name of the path we walk on in pursuit of our goals and that, furthermore, that path is ok to be on because, when it really comes down to it, anything worth having is worth fighting for.
The most important thing to learn is the art of vulnerability. To be honest and to display something that truly challenges others to delve into themselves and their views you must be willing to open yourself, however raw, and be willing to become vulnerable to the point of humiliation. We must be willing to fail in order to achieve what we desire. The ability to chase something regardless of the outcome may be foolish in some contexts, but in the context of your passion, it is nothing short of courageous.
It comes down to realizing what it is that you simply want and what it is that you literally can not live without. Finding that raw, almost irrational desire for a craft, a purpose, a girl, a pursuit or whatever is essential to our personal and social fulfillment. Enjoyment is a derivative of passion and passion often pushes us to the brink of ourselves.
HOW beautiful.
To be at the end of yourself in the pursuit of what it is you are supposed to be doing is, in my mind, the most beautiful of images. I think to stand you have only to kneel. To succeed you have only to let go. And so this blog has become a call to do just that. To let go of yourself, entirely. A call to, in the words of E.M. Froster, “...be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Whether right or wrong, there is part of us that is constantly afraid that there is another life out there that we are missing out on. A longing for something much greater and deeper than whatever it is that we are currently experiencing. On this sentiment I would like to ask, what if you really are here for something bigger than the mundane, average or suggested life you have pictured for yourself or possibly even fallen into?
If you have refused to believe that there is a reason you are here, it is time to start. Start looking to the heavens and screaming until you hear an answer. Start asking all of the things that have terrified you since you can remember. Start chasing everything you have been told to put away. Run. Run like nothing could ever stop you. Dream as if nothing could ever steal it from you. Love as if you have never been hurt and hope against all hope that you are loved more than you could ever imagine.
The way I see it, if you are not here for a purpose yet live like you are , you have lost nothing -- but if you are here for a purpose yet live like you’re not, you have lost everything. It’s time to believe, friend. Sometimes we write off this or that because we cannot see, hear or capture it with our minds. Yet we so easily forget that we are not all-knowing or all-understanding. Is it possible that you don’t know everything? I think it is. I also find it very plausible that in that enormity of knowledge and wisdom hidden from my gaze, that part that takes the faith of a lion to follow, there could be hope. Hope for me, hope for you, and hope for what we face.
SCREAM UNTILL YOU hear AN answer.
Don’t throw a hissy-fit, here. But please, I beg you, do not give up on what you believe because you have fallen down. Challenge it. Challenge the way you think, feel and act. Ask the hard questions and never settle for complacency. I am not here to give you the answers but I am here, for whatever it’s worth, to push you to chase them.
To everyone who is patiently waiting,
Waiting for a job opportunity, a passion, a girl, a dream -- have faith, you are in the right place. Waiting is not a bad thing to be doing and, although at times it hurts like nothing else and confuses even the wisest of us, don’t stop. If I may, although it’s not my place, I would like to offer the following:
Sometimes it’s not about knowing; but rather believing that, regardless of the outcome, you will still be standing there at the end of the day screaming “it was all worth it”. You see, the trick to making it through life without ripping all of your hair out is first and foremost about realizing that you are not alone in your struggle or in your confusion about it. Secondly, it is vital to come to an understanding that pain is name of the path we walk on in pursuit of our goals and that, furthermore, that path is ok to be on because, when it really comes down to it, anything worth having is worth fighting for.
The most important thing to learn is the art of vulnerability. To be honest and to display something that truly challenges others to delve into themselves and their views you must be willing to open yourself, however raw, and be willing to become vulnerable to the point of humiliation. We must be willing to fail in order to achieve what we desire. The ability to chase something regardless of the outcome may be foolish in some contexts, but in the context of your passion, it is nothing short of courageous.
It comes down to realizing what it is that you simply want and what it is that you literally can not live without. Finding that raw, almost irrational desire for a craft, a purpose, a girl, a pursuit or whatever is essential to our personal and social fulfillment. Enjoyment is a derivative of passion and passion often pushes us to the brink of ourselves.
HOW beautiful.
To be at the end of yourself in the pursuit of what it is you are supposed to be doing is, in my mind, the most beautiful of images. I think to stand you have only to kneel. To succeed you have only to let go. And so this blog has become a call to do just that. To let go of yourself, entirely. A call to, in the words of E.M. Froster, “...be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Whether right or wrong, there is part of us that is constantly afraid that there is another life out there that we are missing out on. A longing for something much greater and deeper than whatever it is that we are currently experiencing. On this sentiment I would like to ask, what if you really are here for something bigger than the mundane, average or suggested life you have pictured for yourself or possibly even fallen into?
If you have refused to believe that there is a reason you are here, it is time to start. Start looking to the heavens and screaming until you hear an answer. Start asking all of the things that have terrified you since you can remember. Start chasing everything you have been told to put away. Run. Run like nothing could ever stop you. Dream as if nothing could ever steal it from you. Love as if you have never been hurt and hope against all hope that you are loved more than you could ever imagine.
The way I see it, if you are not here for a purpose yet live like you are , you have lost nothing -- but if you are here for a purpose yet live like you’re not, you have lost everything. It’s time to believe, friend. Sometimes we write off this or that because we cannot see, hear or capture it with our minds. Yet we so easily forget that we are not all-knowing or all-understanding. Is it possible that you don’t know everything? I think it is. I also find it very plausible that in that enormity of knowledge and wisdom hidden from my gaze, that part that takes the faith of a lion to follow, there could be hope. Hope for me, hope for you, and hope for what we face.
SCREAM UNTILL YOU hear AN answer.
Don’t throw a hissy-fit, here. But please, I beg you, do not give up on what you believe because you have fallen down. Challenge it. Challenge the way you think, feel and act. Ask the hard questions and never settle for complacency. I am not here to give you the answers but I am here, for whatever it’s worth, to push you to chase them.
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