Emerson40
An evening spent dancing
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- Aug 27, 2012
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Imagine a life where you have surrendered your freedoms, your ability to make choices.
Visualize for a moment that you are confined to a prison of your own design, and every day of your existence inspires hopelessness for the future. Your dark collection of thoughts swirl around pain, guilt, and despair, and everyday you refuse to accept responsibility, and take back control of your life.
The door to your cell is unlocked - it always has been. But you remain, confining yourself to your prison and a life devoid of adventure, physical human interaction, challenge, inspiration, and love.
Outside the tolling of the bell marks the passing of time, and your try your best to ignore it, even while the days spiral away, dragging you along, into the vortex.
One day, you tell yourself, one day. Then you wrap another length of chain around yourself and clasp on another shackle, and hear the familiar sound of another door closing as you carelessly fritter away another hour, another day.
In one year, you promise yourself. A year from now it’ll be oh so different. In the back of your mind you know this self-assurance is insubstantial, lacks the required... conviction.
Every year seems to get shorter, weakening your resolve, and eventually the hinges on your cell door rust and seize, and you try to convince yourself you were never really able to open it before, you’re your own unfortunate victim.
You’ve come undone, and distract yourself with the internet, and log in and post on a message board all day, everyday. You do it for some semblance of human interaction, for attention, as a silent scream for help.
You've given up.
We all recognize a person in our lives, or perhaps pister who fits the above, yes?
Now follow the trajectory, and fast forward a few years time....
http://img-11.onedio.com/img/2r0/56dc6b6947be271b494c6da1.gif
Through the magic of technology, we can peek at the future where this pister is heading.
A few years or so from now, sometime in the future:
After "Kevin's" breakdown, his sisters are tasked with flying to Australia to pick up the pieces.
Sad, isn't it? Heartbreakingly so.
We can all learn from this. Don’t end up like 'Kevin'.
You only have one life, and in the grand scheme of things, it is fleeting and with an indeterminate conclusion. Why wouldn’t you live your life to the fullest, and live it well?
Don’t compromise yourself, or put off ‘till tomorrow. Tomorrow may never come.
Get up in the morning. Work hard and work smart. Keep your priorities in line and you head on straight. Get outside, exercise. Find a passion, have a hobby. Do what you love, love what you do, and do it well. Be creative, be determined, dream, and fall in love. Live life wonderfully.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
Visualize for a moment that you are confined to a prison of your own design, and every day of your existence inspires hopelessness for the future. Your dark collection of thoughts swirl around pain, guilt, and despair, and everyday you refuse to accept responsibility, and take back control of your life.
The door to your cell is unlocked - it always has been. But you remain, confining yourself to your prison and a life devoid of adventure, physical human interaction, challenge, inspiration, and love.
Outside the tolling of the bell marks the passing of time, and your try your best to ignore it, even while the days spiral away, dragging you along, into the vortex.
One day, you tell yourself, one day. Then you wrap another length of chain around yourself and clasp on another shackle, and hear the familiar sound of another door closing as you carelessly fritter away another hour, another day.
In one year, you promise yourself. A year from now it’ll be oh so different. In the back of your mind you know this self-assurance is insubstantial, lacks the required... conviction.
Every year seems to get shorter, weakening your resolve, and eventually the hinges on your cell door rust and seize, and you try to convince yourself you were never really able to open it before, you’re your own unfortunate victim.
You’ve come undone, and distract yourself with the internet, and log in and post on a message board all day, everyday. You do it for some semblance of human interaction, for attention, as a silent scream for help.
You've given up.
We all recognize a person in our lives, or perhaps pister who fits the above, yes?
Now follow the trajectory, and fast forward a few years time....
http://img-11.onedio.com/img/2r0/56dc6b6947be271b494c6da1.gif
Through the magic of technology, we can peek at the future where this pister is heading.
A few years or so from now, sometime in the future:
After "Kevin's" breakdown, his sisters are tasked with flying to Australia to pick up the pieces.
Sad, isn't it? Heartbreakingly so.
We can all learn from this. Don’t end up like 'Kevin'.
You only have one life, and in the grand scheme of things, it is fleeting and with an indeterminate conclusion. Why wouldn’t you live your life to the fullest, and live it well?
Don’t compromise yourself, or put off ‘till tomorrow. Tomorrow may never come.
Get up in the morning. Work hard and work smart. Keep your priorities in line and you head on straight. Get outside, exercise. Find a passion, have a hobby. Do what you love, love what you do, and do it well. Be creative, be determined, dream, and fall in love. Live life wonderfully.
Get busy living, or get busy dying.
~Andy Defresne
