It has been a busy last few days. Life
has a funny way of telling you it is not a good time to rest. An
object at rest tends to stay at rest though, and a lack of motion can
lead to stagnation. Stagnation is the first step on the path to
extinction. I am not ready to join the thunder lizards yet, nor am I
willing to let my blood be drawn from the earth to feed the greed of
nations. So for now I move, and I keep moving. Through it all I try
to remember to smile.
In this my smile is not always sarcastic, however I do not stop that
sly smirk from taking over my face. You see the superciliousness
that brings my mirth to the surface is one of mocking discontent for
the masses. So many people want nothing more then to be left to their
own devices. So many people would love to spend their days collecting
a bigger belly on their couches with nothing more to do then to enjoy
the sweet embrace of apathy. It is the story as old as time. Achilles
was offered two choices in the Iliad, one do not go to Troy and live
a happy life with many fat children but his name dies with them,
second he could choose the path of glory and his name would live on
for millennium. We all know his choice.
Many call that
choice folly, yet here we are thousands of years later still hearing
of his tales. We hear of his people, and those sweet words of Homer
pull to that sense of adventure. We all dream of those great tales,
and often in our youth we put ourselves in them. As we age though the
call lessens in our heart and our mind looks to preservation. We want
nothing more then to squeeze as many days from life as we can. We
stop looking for the journey and slow our arrival at the destination.
We favor stagnation and look to wrap ourselves in the bed straw of
401k's, retirement IRA's, Roth's, or annuity based funds. The most
exciting thing people seek would be a sunset, and forget that years
ago this was a fate worse than death to that child within.
Strive for
stagnation and you will find extinction. Life is not the reward of
the complacent, it is merely existence, nothing more. Life is held
by those that understand it is the currency of adventure, and by
putting it on the line you are paying the fare for the best rides you
can find. It is the sailing to a distant shore to try new flavors.
Life has a lot to offer to those willing to live it. Excuses are
easy, life is not. So what have you done to challenge your life and
to ward of oblivion and the stink of the void? When is the last time
you danced during a sunset from a mountain top?
Life is about
motion, choice, and renewal. The by product is change, and change is
nothing to be feared or loved; it merely is. So do not run from
change, it will catch you, and the longer it takes the bigger the
price. If you take it on in small doses you will not live forever but
you will actually live. That is the secret to life, at least in my
eyes. We all die. We all breath. Some of us just get much more out of
it. So when you are sitting at a table in the afterlife with your
ancestors what stories are you going to share, or are you just going
to listen and carry your extinction over to the other side?
Me I am going to
seek as much, do as much, and cause as much as I can. Eternity is a
long damn time to be telling the same tired stories over and over
again. You might as well insure yours are the least boring. Go, do
something, and don't let a damn person take a thing from you, and
take take any of their shit either. Live, love, laugh, and you will
live longer then your body ever could.
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