Everybody I know wants something that is much more than they have. I’ve yet to meet a person who is totally satisfied with just doing the barest of things to survive. Dreaming and trying to imagine life on a higher plain is intoxicating to almost anyone alive. However, many of us settle for a very rich dream life where we are forever the victors and champions of the thing or circumstances we imagine. In these self inflicted stories we are the kings and gods of that which we desire. Delusionally, there is never a bad day or a major defeat. Life is good because we wish it to be so. A great cautionary verse in I Corinthians 10:12 which says, “Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” However, delusional thoughts of grandeur often carries the day and nothing is learned.
At the other end of the spectrum are those of us who can’t imagine anything more than we have. Life is such a chore and pain is our constant companion. We see others as always more worthy of good things and rewards but never us. There is only badness, fear, dread, and a sense of failure. Never does the imagination dare to speak of great things or even good things. This too is because we wish it to be so but we can’t think of goodness to prevail. It gives rise to the concept or real possibility that we are faced with, “Despair, A Moment or a Way of Life.” This person has to decide whether they will remain at their lowly estate or will they do something to make it better.
Lastly there is the life that most of us live and fight from. It’s highness and lowness is tempered by real life experience and the belief that our lives are not static. We can choose to be champions or we can give up and settle to the bottom of our existence never to rise. We who have experienced lowness can never settle for being less than we are. We can decide to do better despite where we find ourselves. This life which I have to insert is my life. Times of great depression juxtaposed to times of great mountain top experiences helps us to change what we can to better in this world. We dream but we have learned that dreams are not reality but they can become reality. To transform a dream or a wish into a reality takes tons of work. I have adopted the belief that nothing is free. Branch Warren, a solid Olympian Bodybuilder once said, “Everything is earned and Nothing is given.” I even have his t-Shirt that declares this truth.
Let me end this on this note: Most things in life that are desired can be had. You have to want it bad enough that we will stop wishing for it to appear. We rather begin to plan and get to work attaining it. Wishful thinking is good but to make the dream or the wish to come into existence for us, we have to work for it. “WE MUST STOP WISHING AND START DOING.
Six Pack and Senior 