There has been a lot to day recently, I just haven’t had the time to say any of it. Maybe that is being too hard on myself, I guess the truth is I haven’t made any time to say all that I’ve needed to recently. The song “Say” by John Mayer comes to mind. We all need to speak out once in a while, about the heartache, or the joy, the sorrow, or the triumph. It’s not good to hold things inside, not healthy to let emotion fester and turn into counter-production.
So thus begins my rant to what I’ve been feeling lately…
They say time heals all wounds, I’m not sure who the “they” is, but let’s suppose that the saying is true none the less. My argument is that time may very well heal wounds, but time also leaves scars. Papa Roach can say it so much better than I, “Our scars remind us that the past is real…” We can obviously live with scars, what we can’t live with is pain, thus “time heals all wounds.” How much time it takes to heal is something “they” leave out. I often wish the saying would include or be sensitive to how much time it will take to heal.
Moving along, I should make time to say how wonderful it is to love. It’s like taking all the supposed things that make a person happy, chocolate, sleeping in, sports, shopping, sunshine, laughter, or ice cream and having access to them 24/7. Love, I have found, can you give you a courage and a will that you maybe didn’t have before. Despite the fact that it is the hardest thing to work with, love is, speaking from experience, the most rewarding feeling. Along with love comes hope, a term that gets over looked a lot these days. Hope helps you keep your courage, even when things beyond your control seem to want to rob you of it. Love and hope, when used correctly together, empowers you to look beyond the past, and focus on the present, and the future.
I recently told a good friend, that I’m starting to look at life the way a football player might look at it. Instead of looking down the field, towards the goal line, a football player focuses on getting the 1st down. Considering the fact that I’m using football to make this analogy, I might as well make it poignant. Too much time spent worriying on the end result will drive a person crazy, not to mention make them lose focus and not be able to enjoy the awesome plays that life has to offer. So, I’m focusing on getting each and every 1st down that I possibly can, even if that means I have to wait a long time to get to the end zone. I won’t spend my life looking down the field, wishing I could just get there already. Each day, is a different 1st down, and each day my goal is make the best play that I can.
And that…is making time to say it all!
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