Rudyard Kipling wrote, "If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it all on one turn of pitch-and-toss, / And lose, and start again at your beginnings... Yours is the earth and everything that's in it..." I cannot fathom a deeper explanation of how life works than the way it has been expressed by these poetic words that Kipling wrote a hundred years ago.
Today, so many desires exist to burn me and my spirit. To have a great and productive workday. To have a fantastic circle of friends. To have a constantly supportive family. To be more financially independent. To be ensconced in personal relationships that help me grow. To be more. To be...
It's never ending, always changing. "I want" and "I need" are my two best friends, my steadfast companions. And if I indeed have everything, then it's not worth it. No struggling, no breathing, no working. What a dead bore. I want the earth, Kipling. I want more than "sixty seconds' worth of distance run." How satisfying then that I have close to nothing.
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2 comments:
very nice first post!
finally! welcome to the blogging world! now, there's no way you can get rid of me, my friend..
Great, dzen. Just great. :D
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