Saturday, April 06, 2002

It's been a while, hasn't it? I haven't been doing a good job keeping up with this. I guess I'm busy living life. I can't imagine doing it any other way. My issue as of late has been that of motivation. Sometimes I wonder to myself, "What drives me to do the things I do?" I mean, from a purely financial point of view, I could be working in the future just to put food on my table. And then once I've got food on the table, it takes care of my physiological need to live. And then once your body is in tip top shape, then what? That's why I believe there's more to life than money. It's not the only reason why I believe there is more to life than money, but it is one of them. Sometimes in the face of something seemingly insurmountable, you find yourself pushing the barriers and struggling to achieve something you're not necessarily sure you can even achieve in the first place. And what comes after that? Failure? Success? Does it seem sometimes that people have it harder than others? That some people are just born richer, smarter, better looking, etc.? Of course it does, that's the game of life. I try never to forget the old adage, "The grass is always greener on the other side." What this means to me is that I always try to look inside of every person to see the things that he/she struggles with. The amazing thing about humans is the universality of our emotions and our experiences in this life. Too much thinking for me...I gotta just sit back and enjoy the ride..."When you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. But when this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry,you say, 'Live and let die.'"