and fight for it, to work day and night for it,
to give up your time, your peace and your sleep for it…if all that you dream and scheme is about it,
and life seems useless and worthless without it…
if you gladly sweat for it and fret for it and plan for it
and lose all your terror of the opposition for it…
if you simply go after that thing you want
with all of your capacity, strength and sagacity,
faith, hope and confidence and stern pertinacity…
if neither cold, poverty, famine, nor gout,
sickness nor pain, of body and brain,
can keep you away from the thing that you want…
if dogged and grim you beseech and beset it,
with the help of God, you will get it!"
~Les Brown~
This is one of my favorite quotes.
Generally humans have one flaw that supersedes most others, the irony is this flaw is learned. It is so maddeningly hard to get past the unknown for most people, so much so that those who do push past the fear are both lifted up reverently and demonized. We are not born with this though. As children we are filled with the sense of adventure and seeking the unknown. Watch an infant and you will see what I mean. Alas time moves on and we learn to be afraid of things out of our familiar zone, as Chris Brady calls it. We seek the illusory comfort of what we know, only for the sake of our goals and dreams. These exist in the unknown. They cannot be discovered without first leaving the security of the known. Those who do the impossible discover it really wasn't as hard as our minds contrived it to be. It is like running through a wall of wet toilet paper. By appearence it looks daunting and solid, a bulwark of indomitable barriers preventing us from our purpose. It is soon discovered to be a lie, a false appearance of power, when we will run through it. This is not to say there are not difficulties. Indeed wet toilet paper is hard to remove. It is sticky and messy and a nuisance. But the reward of victory is so much more. Take the Indiana Jones jump into what can be.
Until Later,
Roy K.
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