Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Small Short Men

We have all been met by those short small men, those moments of reality. When you lie in your bed in the night and watch as the power of the dim light through the windows grows stronger with each passing moment, when you stop in your tracks because a child crossed right in front of you. The moments of realization come to us all. Sometimes we are heavy laden by languages that we could so easily drop and there are times when what we are trying to get rid of is part of us, so much that if we tried to drop it, a strong part of us would be cut off.

There are days when we hold on to things that are no longer with us, we stand at the station of waiting for a vehicle that is continually moving in the opposite direction. While failing to realize that we put our mortal selves in utter danger. Life is short and while we all know that, we still fail to realize why we spend most of it planning or not planning at all. Some have tried so hard to do the right thing that they have done nothing at all, others have fallen on anything that came their way that in the end what is left is an eroded road with overgrown sidewalks. Either way, we cannot live like this.
To assume that we are not that important, that we should always put others first because they deserve better than us all the time is disillusion so injurious. The latest short small man has been that I am the most important being in my life, that if I am going to love, I should start with me, if I am going to respect, I should start with me. We have met bleeding soldiers that saw everyone safe and they lost their own lives. May be in the books of life they had that part to play may be not, but we cannot save the whole world at all the time and die each time. Our safety has got to be paramount and when it is we can be with the freedom to risk our lives for others knowing that we shall not only save their but ours too.

The Case For Heroism

I was raised by a man that sacrificed much of his youth for me, I will not stand and condemn the people that have given us and not given to themselves those things that they would have loved to give themselves at those moments. I am grateful, but I also realize that we are in a constant process of giving to ourselves and that some times to buy chocolate means we shall forego mint. Either way we have given to ourselves that which we think is most important. A parent thinks that giving himself an educated child is better than building a house. The reasons for that differ from parent to parent and no matter how we may have to mask them, we are still planning for that gift, twenty years of solving a single problem can be long but parents endure it, knowing that the final product in their child is more satisfying and beneficial to all involved.

That’s just the way we are, we are part of each other in many ways than we see. Sometimes it’s hard to tell what we have loved the most, the gift or the giver. In my opinion, its important to always remember that we deserve the best, from happy children to amazing friends, that when we want something good for another we are the people worthy of such a wish.

In short, when those short small men, visit you, its time to act. The beauty in people is best touched when we give but before we decide to give, we have to realize that we are worthy of the giving. That we are important enough to be the givers. The hero has got to value his life above those that he is willing to save if such salvation is going to be of any eternal worth. The greater is always given for the lesser if eternity is going to register that giving and after such a gift, we all can learn what it truly means to gives.

So lets raise from the places of our waiting and move on the road of action. We can carry our waiting in our hearts and we should always expect some good to come our way, but we should never be crippled by the wait. Life is waiting for us to place our hands in its and walk and put our lives to both great and small uses. Our desires are calling us and we need to respond. Plan and move, lets not be crippled by the blue print, the goal was to show us where to pass in this life.

See you all as you add value to life.

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