“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucius
I have fallen many times in my life, but I am grateful for that inner strength as well as the support of loved ones and friends that help me to keep getting back up and moving forward again.
Life was not meant to be easy, where would the fun be in that. Not that it was necessarily meant to be bad, it was meant to be a challenge. In looking back on some of my most challenging times in life, I have often been able to find a really important lesson, and even some humor. I have laughed myself to the point of delirium with my old high school buddy Tim, talking about events in my life that would have had some people jumping off of bridges.
I was listening to Joel Osteen and he was speaking of times where like a plant, or a tree, we need pruning in order to grow. It’s a really positive you can put on those challenging times when they come around. If everything were handed to us, without us having to put forth any kind of effort, or work through any kind of challenge, we would all still emotionally be infants. While pain avoidance is something we humans rely upon, there are certain pains we just have to go through in order to grow into the kind of man or woman we know we can be.
I still have so much I want to do with my life, I don’t want it to all be spent sitting around an analyzing how to live it better, writing blogs, reading books, listening to speakers on my IPOD. Some of our best lessons are out there waiting for us to be experienced, and we have to learn to welcome the pain that comes with some of those lessons, because if we spend our lives trying to avoid it, we’re definitely going to miss out on the rewards.
I’m a very resilient man, I have had to be for so long. I’m part pit bull, and part bantam rooster. The pit bull in me is that stubborn streak that just grabs onto something and I won’t let go until I get it done, and the bantam rooster in me, is that cocky little bird that walks around, strutting his stuff, just daring the world to step up to him, looking fate in the eye and saying, “Make your move, I dare you.”
I’m a bit all over the place with this post. I guess it’s because in my life I’m a bit all over the place too. It’s because of so much change I have gone through this past year, while there was a bit of regression, there were some major renovations done deep within that I am proud of. I just need to balance it, just a bit.
