10 Overlooked Truths About Action | The Art of Manliness
As you may or may not be aware, I haven't been around much. I've been ridiculously busy.
And if there is one thing that this state of being busy has taught me, it is that industriousness and execution are staples to success at anything.
I sat around the campfire on CC with you. We sang our songs, laughed as brothers and friends do. We embraced each others hardships with prayer, traveled to see each other and our friendship stretches beyond the digital world.
But, on the other side of the coin, we have fostered some pretty ugly virtues. We made our lists, splayed our ideals, vocalized the trespasses in relationships or in the absence of relationships. Such a thing brought us together, and in a sense united us, galvanizing our commonality and was something we could bond over.
Yet, in spite of this sort of cocktail of good, we remained much as we always have. Unsure, uneasy, and uncomfortable with the idea of being stuck as we are. We take note of the sentiment surrounding relationships, as if CC was some sort of accurate barometer reflecting the reality we live in day by day.
Each of us took our nuggets. We honed our expectations, both of ourselves and each other. We practiced not making mistakes, polished our sensors to root out those who would seek to poison and destroy our virtues, and we learned from those who share our noble cause.
We waited, we wait and we will continue to wait, like a moray eel in the shadow. The expectation grows, until it doesn't anymore, until it shrinks, until hope becomes deferred. Bitterness, jealousy, envy and strife whisper at first. Sour grapes becomes more than a fable, as we downplay each moment that passes as "Bad timing" or "not the one" or "Not who God has for me." Still the wait continues.....
What if we are wrong. Instead of waiting, what if we should simply be doing what we know is right. DOING, what we KNOW is RIGHT. (How does that work?)
Instead of pondering, thinking, blogging, chatting, reading, praying and ruminating about everything relationshippy, what if we simply unplugged ourselves from it? (But then what?)
Do something else, Until you forget what you are supposed to be, what the cobwebbed quagmire of rules and expectations are. Do something else, until you forget who is supposed to buy, who is supposed to ask who out, what version of the Bible Mr/Mrs right is supposed to use, or what denomination they should tithe to, or what they should or should not be.
10 Overlooked Truths About Action | The Art of Manliness
I've come to realize that when I was at my best and where I am going are matters of how hard I am working at being my best.
There is a Parable about a Master and his 3 servants and their talents. I choose to not be the one who buries mine in the backyard, "Playing it safe."
As you may or may not be aware, I haven't been around much. I've been ridiculously busy.
And if there is one thing that this state of being busy has taught me, it is that industriousness and execution are staples to success at anything.
I sat around the campfire on CC with you. We sang our songs, laughed as brothers and friends do. We embraced each others hardships with prayer, traveled to see each other and our friendship stretches beyond the digital world.
But, on the other side of the coin, we have fostered some pretty ugly virtues. We made our lists, splayed our ideals, vocalized the trespasses in relationships or in the absence of relationships. Such a thing brought us together, and in a sense united us, galvanizing our commonality and was something we could bond over.
Yet, in spite of this sort of cocktail of good, we remained much as we always have. Unsure, uneasy, and uncomfortable with the idea of being stuck as we are. We take note of the sentiment surrounding relationships, as if CC was some sort of accurate barometer reflecting the reality we live in day by day.
Each of us took our nuggets. We honed our expectations, both of ourselves and each other. We practiced not making mistakes, polished our sensors to root out those who would seek to poison and destroy our virtues, and we learned from those who share our noble cause.
We waited, we wait and we will continue to wait, like a moray eel in the shadow. The expectation grows, until it doesn't anymore, until it shrinks, until hope becomes deferred. Bitterness, jealousy, envy and strife whisper at first. Sour grapes becomes more than a fable, as we downplay each moment that passes as "Bad timing" or "not the one" or "Not who God has for me." Still the wait continues.....
What if we are wrong. Instead of waiting, what if we should simply be doing what we know is right. DOING, what we KNOW is RIGHT. (How does that work?)
Instead of pondering, thinking, blogging, chatting, reading, praying and ruminating about everything relationshippy, what if we simply unplugged ourselves from it? (But then what?)
Do something else, Until you forget what you are supposed to be, what the cobwebbed quagmire of rules and expectations are. Do something else, until you forget who is supposed to buy, who is supposed to ask who out, what version of the Bible Mr/Mrs right is supposed to use, or what denomination they should tithe to, or what they should or should not be.
10 Overlooked Truths About Action | The Art of Manliness
I've come to realize that when I was at my best and where I am going are matters of how hard I am working at being my best.
There is a Parable about a Master and his 3 servants and their talents. I choose to not be the one who buries mine in the backyard, "Playing it safe."
D) but if it isn't, I'll do something else. It really isn't that big of a deal.
