In response
I see a lot of people posting entries or just talking about the lack of direction in their life. It makes me think of "Fight Club" where Tyler Durden says, "I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
Lots of people, includeing myself, search for answers to questions we don't even know! I've heard the words we try to put to these questions of life but they never seem to fit perfectly... like a pair of jeans you had to suck in your gut to put on.
I've concluded that there are 3 places to find these answers and they are: God, Loved one(s), or Yourself. Personally I will only accept an answer from myself... however if God does talk to me I hope I can remember what drugs I was on!
The song below is one of my personal favorite motivational songs but it's also a good example of what I mean. The bold/italic word "YOU" can really be anyone ... or anything. However, the song was technically written for God.
Artist: Relient K
Album: Five Score And Seven Years Ago
Year: 2007
Title: Up And Up
Yesterday was not quite what it could've been
As were most of all the days before
But I swear today with every breath I'm breathing in
I'll be trying to make it so much more
Cause it seems I get so hung up on
The history of what's gone wrong
That the hope of a new day is sometimes hard to see
But I'm finally catching on to it
Yeah the past is just a conduit
And the light there at the end is where I'll be
Cause I'm on the up and up
I'm on the up and up
And I haven't given up
Given up on what
I know I'm capable of
Yeah I'm on the up and up
Yeah there's nothing left to prove
Cause I'm just trying to be
A better version of me
For you
To be prosperous would not require much of me
You see, contentment is all that it entails
To be content with where I am, and getting where I need to be
And moving past the past where I have failed
For you never cease to supply
Me with with what I need for a good life
So when I'm down I'll hold my head up high
Cause you're the reason why, yeah you're why
Lots of people, includeing myself, search for answers to questions we don't even know! I've heard the words we try to put to these questions of life but they never seem to fit perfectly... like a pair of jeans you had to suck in your gut to put on.
I've concluded that there are 3 places to find these answers and they are: God, Loved one(s), or Yourself. Personally I will only accept an answer from myself... however if God does talk to me I hope I can remember what drugs I was on!
The song below is one of my personal favorite motivational songs but it's also a good example of what I mean. The bold/italic word "YOU" can really be anyone ... or anything. However, the song was technically written for God.
Artist: Relient K
Album: Five Score And Seven Years Ago
Year: 2007
Title: Up And Up
Yesterday was not quite what it could've been
As were most of all the days before
But I swear today with every breath I'm breathing in
I'll be trying to make it so much more
Cause it seems I get so hung up on
The history of what's gone wrong
That the hope of a new day is sometimes hard to see
But I'm finally catching on to it
Yeah the past is just a conduit
And the light there at the end is where I'll be
Cause I'm on the up and up
I'm on the up and up
And I haven't given up
Given up on what
I know I'm capable of
Yeah I'm on the up and up
Yeah there's nothing left to prove
Cause I'm just trying to be
A better version of me
For you
To be prosperous would not require much of me
You see, contentment is all that it entails
To be content with where I am, and getting where I need to be
And moving past the past where I have failed
For you never cease to supply
Me with with what I need for a good life
So when I'm down I'll hold my head up high
Cause you're the reason why, yeah you're why