Living it
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It’s been a busy week with Holy Week and everything else. I will write more in depth later, but right now I just wanted to include a small quote.
“The hardest thing in this life is to live in it.” — Buffy Summers, “The Gift” (Joss Whedon)
Anyone who has watched the show will understand. For those who haven’t, don’t worry. I happen to enjoy life quite a bit right now, but that statement is still true. There is nothing harder to do in life than get out of bed every morning and breathe, and most of us can do that just fine. Anything else that seems impossible is merely difficult and perhaps highly improbable, but that does not mean we should not try. Give ourselves to everything we do, give 100 per cent. As a Russian figure skating coach character says in The Cutting Edge “Halfway is bullshit.” Or in a bit more geek-speak: “Do or do not. There is no try.”
If we cannot give what we do everything we are, if we cannot have passion, if we cannot believe strongly in life and love and everything else…maybe it’s time to consider something else. If you don’t love your job, find another one. If you don’t have passion for your hobbies, why even bother?
I believe that giving your whole being to something or someone doesn’t mean you have nothing left. We are remarkable creatures and giving your whole self to an idea or belief or person means only that you have more to discover. Every time we fall in love we find that, amazingly, we can love more than we thought. Every time there is an addition to our family that capability to love increases. There is no end to it, and that’s true of everything we are, everything we do. Unfortunately, it’s also true for negative emotions. The more we give in to them, the more they can enter our lives and control us. It is a choice we make, though it can be a very difficult choice. At times it may not even seem like a choice to us, just to those around us. As someone who was ruled by negativity for too long, I can attest that it is challenging to rise above it. But if you have a support network, and truly understanding and loving people, you can overcome negativity and begin to move toward the world of life and giving (instead of hatred and taking).
Have you given yourself to something today?
