For about the past two weeks, I have been attempting to write this article. I have written, re-written and started over several times, and to no avail, I just have not been able to get my thoughts into print. It has been, to say the very least, frustrating. The things that we think and feel don’t always get conveyed in the way we hope or plan. This article is supposed to have been about overcoming obstacles in our lives; how fitting that the creation of this piece itself, has become an obstacle for me.
I guess I should probably start with a little history. About a year ago, I wrote an article called, “Believe”. It was basically about how what we believe affects our lives. In the subsequent time, I have had a lot of interesting things happen. Without going into great detail, I think it’s sufficient to say that some of these things were new lessons, some were old lessons, but all were valuable lessons. So there it is: lessons. More specifically, it’s how you apply those lessons. We tend to forget their value, when we allow conditions to get in the way. We live our lives wanting everything right now, but we forget about working toward something that we hold in high regard. Maybe this will better illustrate my point:
I went hiking by myself in the woods on Sunday. It’s always good to get away and become one with nature (it too teaches us many great lessons). At any rate, there is a particular hill where I go hiking, that just always seemed insurmountable. For fifteen years, I have wanted to climb to the top. I just never took the opportunity to do so. So finally, after such a long time, I decided that I would do it. It was steep! My lungs started burning and my legs were pumping battery acid. It was a crazy-good workout that I had not planned on. After several minutes, I reached the very top, only to find a most curious surprise. No, it wasn’t a rabid animal that had escaped, and it wasn’t some homocidal maniac with a hockey mask—although that would have made an interesting twist to the story. It was a trail. What? How could this be? My hill, the one that had always seemed so unatainable, the one that I thought no one had ever climbed or could ever climb? Then I understood.
We often suffer long for those things in our life that seem so very important. We struggle, plan and prepare to achieve our purpose, then we realize that we have grown in different ways on the path to that purpose. We come to find that we arrive at a better place inside of ourselves, and when we finally do get our deepest desire, it’s even greater than we could ever imagine. We all have a great “hill” or even “mountain” in our life. We all have something to overcome—some barrier that we feel we cannot cross. So how do we get past it?
You must absolutely believe and be patient that everything will unfold as it should. I have lived most of my life having been able to do exactly what I want when I wanted. It didn’t matter what I wanted to accomplish, if I wanted it badly enough, I could make it happen. It is only after all this experience and re-learning of some of these lessons, that I’ve discovered; it isn’t always on our timeline, but if you still believe, if you sacrifice everything for your beliefs, you will not be disappointed. You must still believe!
For about the past two weeks, I have been attempting to write this article. I have written, re-written and started over several times, and to no avail, I just have not been able to get my thoughts into print. It has been, to say the very least, frustrating. The things that we think and feel don’t always get conveyed in the way we hope or plan. This article is supposed to have been about overcoming obstacles in our lives; how fitting that the creation of this piece itself, has become an obstacle for me.
I guess I should probably start with a little history. About a year ago, I wrote an article called, “Believe”. It was basically about how what we believe affects our lives. In the subsequent time, I have had a lot of interesting things happen. Without going into great detail, I think it’s sufficient to say that some of these things were new lessons, some were old lessons, but all were valuable lessons. So there it is: lessons. More specifically, it’s how you apply those lessons. We tend to forget their value, when we allow conditions to get in the way. We live our lives wanting everything right now, but we forget about working toward something that we hold in high regard. Maybe this will better illustrate my point:
I went hiking by myself in the woods on Sunday. It’s always good to get away and become one with nature (it too teaches us many great lessons). At any rate, there is a particular hill where I go hiking, that just always seemed insurmountable. For fifteen years, I have wanted to climb to the top. I just never took the opportunity to do so. So finally, after such a long time, I decided that I would do it. It was steep! My lungs started burning and my legs were pumping battery acid. It was a crazy-good workout that I had not planned on. After several minutes, I reached the very top, only to find a most curious surprise. No, it wasn’t a rabid animal that had escaped, and it wasn’t some homocidal maniac with a hockey mask—although that would have made an interesting twist to the story. It was a trail. What? How could this be? My hill, the one that had always seemed so unatainable, the one that I thought no one had ever climbed or could ever climb? Then I understood.
We often suffer long for those things in our life that seem so very important. We struggle, plan and prepare to achieve our purpose, then we realize that we have grown in different ways on the path to that purpose. We come to find that we arrive at a better place inside of ourselves, and when we finally do get our deepest desire, it’s even greater than we could ever imagine. We all have a great “hill” or even “mountain” in our life. We all have something to overcome—some barrier that we feel we cannot cross. So how do we get past it?
You must absolutely believe and be patient that everything will unfold as it should. I have lived most of my life having been able to do exactly what I want when I wanted. It didn’t matter what I wanted to accomplish, if I wanted it badly enough, I could make it happen. It is only after all this experience and re-learning of some of these lessons, that I’ve discovered; it isn’t always on our timeline, but if you still believe, if you sacrifice everything for your beliefs, you will not be disappointed. You must still believe!