So today’s Wednesday, April 15. Though it’d be hard to tell that by looking out into my yard today, with the fresh dump of snow we received overnight.
Seriously, anyone would be forgiven for thinking that we’d skipped a couple of seasons, flipped summer and fall the bird, and just headed straight back to winter.
READ MOREIn life and in business, we often ask – and are asked by others – the question,
How do you make the right decision?”
For me, it comes down to one thing: Will your family be proud?
READ MORESo I realized last night, as I was looking at some updates on here, that I hadn’t posted any content for more than six weeks. That’s a lifetime! Or at least, it used to be…
It’s not that I’ve run out of things to say, or lost interest in blogging/podcasting. Far from it.
I’ve just been busy in all areas of my life – work, personal, some little creative stuff I’ve been tinkering with, and such as. And that’s pretty much kept me away from this blog.
Sure, I could have just reposted stuff I’ve done elsewhere, but that’d be unfair to you, as it’d feel I was just mailing something in, which is one thing I’d never do.
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When we finally reach the end of whatever path we’re on in life, there is one guarantee for all of us, regardless of race, religion or culture.
No matter the paths we took to get there, and the people travelled with or against to traverse these paths, we all meet the same end point.
Often, as the realization hits that this is the end, and the path runs out of areas to tread, we think back on what we’ve accomplished (or haven’t, depending on your point of view).
The problem with this is we leave ourselves no time to take the paths untravelled, or journey the adventure unfound.
Instead, we reach a destination that has no other direction. Or do we?
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ~ Henry Miller
If we see the destination as a place, then our lives will be one big collection of untapped potentials.
Instead of the culmination of a life experienced to its fullest, we’ll have a book full of chapter-sized regrets.
Yet it doesn’t need to be this way.
To Henry Miller’s quote, looking for a “place” as the destination where we’ve finally “arrived” is missing the bigger picture.
For some, the place may be a bigger house. A bigger job with a bigger office. A bigger parking space at the exclusive golf club.
For others, the place may be a better car than the neighbour’s, or a trophy wife/husband to parade at the next corporate event.
But these places are simply material destinations.
Do they make us feel better? Perhaps in the short-term. But longer term, what do they actually mean?
Cars rust, houses crumble, jobs disappear, external beauty fades. So the journey begins again to scratch an itch that just won’t quit – because the journey to these destinations is always the same.
We need to change the destination.
For ourselves. For those around us. For those no longer with us. For those yet to be with us.
Our journey until now we can’t change. It’s done, for good or for worse. Decisions we made until now we may not be able to reverse.
But that doesn’t mean we can’t change their outcome. It all comes down to whether we want to, or not.
It’s time to choose your destination.
Because contentment is all we should strive for. Not perfection. Not being “the best”. Not standing over others, looking down.
Just being content.
Content in our lives.
Content with those we love, and those who love us.
Content with our here and now.
Content with the life we have, versus the life we’re told we should have.
Because being content is being truly happy, and what more in life do we need than that?
