Joseph Campbell

Friday, February 12, 2010

Life is too short

It has benn a while since my last post.

Things hace become more challenging than ever before. I find myself waking up not wanting to face the things that I know that I must. However, today, I had a breakthrough...

My good book states that there are three things in life that last forever. Faith, Hope, and Love. These recent tests have stripped me of my Hope and my faith in all that I have done.

There has been something that has set me apart from the typical person. People wonder what makes me tick. What makes me put up with so many little annoyances that most people become easily fed up with.

There is a burning desire in my heart to succeed. Something that has seemed to never be extinguished. No matter what. There is something that tells me that I will be ok. I thrive on people telling me that I cannot accomplish something.

The best revenge that you can ever experience is massive success in the area that they challenged you in the first place. Who is anyone else to tell you that you can or cannot accomplish anything?

The only person that can decide whether or not things will happen in your life is you. There has to be something that makes you burn. One thought, or one expereince, or one memeory, or one goal, one time where you found yourself at a wall that you felt that you couldn't do anymore. Like suddenly everything was coming to a hault for you. Like there was no more hope, no more faith, no more....

Yet there is love that is in your heart. Your love and passion for those things that light you up inside. The smallest spark is all that you need to get going. That chill that goes down the back of your neck when you know that the test is on the way. Call it inspiration, call it excitement, but it is yours and yours alone. nobody can take it from you.

So live a bold life. One that fears regret more than you feel failure. Failure is meant to be and is inevitable. Regret is self orchestrated, self imposed, and comes as a result of you deciding that you can't do something. Choose the Bold life. Choose to face the failures. Choose to test your limits. Choose to take yourself to that edge, Look at it, Get choked up thinking about how far the fall might be, or how dangerous it would be if you jumped. Then close your eyes, and with everything that you are, understand that you are about to come more by jumping. And then Jump.

Confucious was praised for enlightening the chinese people to do what they felt like they ewere meant to do. That everyone pursuing their individual purpose is what made the whole. So let everything else be figured out. Just focus on you, and it all works out.

Jump,Live, and Love.


Peace,

JC