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This is going to be one intense year.
posted by .n. @ 7:39 PM
Sunday, October 21, 2007
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How so?
Just a feeling I guess.
Last year was pretty significant for me. I guess I'm sensing some momentum here. You ever step out in new ways in life and realize that, what you once thought to be scary or outside the realm of possibility, is a lot more possible than you originally thought?
I know thats a bit ambiguous but in order to give this a broader application I think I'll leave it that way.
I've begun taking more risks in life. I think as you start taking more risks you realize that what you used to think impossible over time becomes your daily existence. Your routine. The way you look at the world. The way you live.
Some of the decisions I've made over the past year have seemed like simple mundane decisions of life. I look at where these decisions have led me and I would now call them the pebbles that have started the ripples that have started the waves. The staging point for new trajectories of life.
I'm realizing that a life worth living is a life filled with risk taking. As I think of the things in life that I feel are worth doing, they all require risk. Love, adventure, faith. Building things. Starting from scratch. Hoping. Amazing things but risky too. I believe wisdom comes into play in all things of course. But too often I find that those educated and careful decisions we make are really driven by fear. We say "responsibility." "Practical." Do you really want to live safely? I mean yeah it sounds comfortable. But really? Comfort is great in the moment but I really don't know if I would look back at a life lived in comfort–a life lived safely and risk-less–and not feel a pang of regret.
And so all that to say that those ridiculous dreams that you're told were made to sit on the shelves of your mind and grow dusty, are what I would call the driving force behind a life fully lived and a life that could potentially change the world you live in.
I'm a single guy without nearly as many responsibilities as someone who, for example, is married with children. But I don't care who you are, what you do or what life stage you're in; there is always room for risk and there is always the chance that what you considered impossible yesterday, might today be something that, with a little faith lies squarely in the realm of the possible. And 20 years down the road as you tell your stories to those younger than yourself, to the incredulous responses of "did you really do that?" you can, with a deep rooted satisfaction in your voice and a smile on your face, reply "yes...I did."
wow. Well, um.... if you plan on taking any dangerous risks, please make sure you are wearing a helmet.
:)
Not all risks pose a threat to ones head. Loving others is possibly one of the greatest risks one can take and that posed risk will not be minimized by wearing a helmet.
Should you stumble upon such a helmet, by all means, let me know.
Bomber I couldn't agree with this more. As I look back over the last year-ish of my life I too am realizing that things i once thought to be scary, or impossible for me to handle have become the things that have drivin me in new, different, exciting and somewhat frightening places. BUt things I wouldn't take back, decisions i only kick myself in the butt for not making sooner. Things you oddly knew about my life before I could even begin to see them as possibility.
jj
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