Old Buildings and Grass

"Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here, and don’t give a damn about what anyone thinks." - Wish I could. 

Sacrifice

The key to being a success is what you are willing to let go. 

We sacrifice it all for that one amazing moment, that moment when you can truly say you deserve the title your job comes with, where you float above the rest. 

There are days that make the sacrifices seem worthwhile, few as they may seem. And then there are the days where everything feels like a sacrifice. And then there are the sacrifices that you can't even figure out why you're making.

A wise man once said you can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it... what he meant is nothing comes without a price tag. 

So before you go into battle, you better decide how much you're willing to lose. Too often, going after what feels good means letting go of what you know is right. 

And letting someone in, leaving your feelings at their expense, means abandoning the walls you've spent a lifetime building.

Of course, the toughest sacrifices are the ones we don't see coming...when we don't have time to come up with a strategy to pick a side or to measure the potential loss. 

When that happens, when the battle chooses us and not the other way around, that's when the sacrifice can turn out to be more than we can bear.

And how much can you sacrifice, until all that’s left is yourself?

Winter Wonderland (Part 2)

Winter Wonderland

Walking in a winter wonderland...

Alone.

We dream of hope, we dream of change, of fire, of love, of death. Then it happens, the dream becomes real. 

And the answer to the quest, this need to solve life's mysteries finally shows itself, like the glowing light of the new dawn. 

So many struggles, for meaning, for purpose, but in the end we find it only in each other. Our shared experiences of the fantastic, and the mundane.

The simple, human need to find kindred, to connect, and to know in our hearts that we are not alone. 

Alone like the drop on this petal. Alone like the petal.  

We find comfort in numbers, to know that there are people like us gives us hope. But one should take comfort from this: One is never alone. 

Scientific fact if nothing else shows us that humans have evolved to live in groups, to seek safety in numbers. One is always loved. 

Even when it seems to be so dark that light will never shine, a glimmer of hope shall always break through.