Sacrifice.

(Originally written December 18, 2022)

What would you give up for what you love? How much of right now are you willing to sacrifice for a future that you can’t see, but believe in? Will you allow yourself to get discouraged when someone looks at you and tells you that they don’t believe in you?

I like to think we’re all moving in the direction of what we want most in life. Whether we have consciously chosen or it has been subconsciously chosen for us.

Inevitably, you will fall down or the world will kick dust on you. But while you’re down there - take a look at the view. See the world in a way that other people aren’t willing to appreciate. Everyone is running around and running after a lot of the same things. If you let them, they will try to tell you what you should value, and who you should be.

These people are blind. All walking toward a big light in the dark, like mosquitoes huddled around one of those zapping lights. Be unafraid to venture through the dark. Sure it gets lonely and cold, but life is not moved forward by those in the light. It is moved forward by those unafraid to venture through the dark.

Light a different beacon for people to move towards. Go down a path different from where everyone else is going and don’t get distracted along the way. People will walk with you for a time, but people will leave and you need to be ready for that. You can’t hold onto something for too long, no matter how much you cherish it.

We’re walking towards something that we can’t see, and we don’t know how far the journey is. All we know is that we need to keep going. Not for us, or for anyone that we even know, really.

If you find something that loves you back, don’t push it away.

Stay warm,

dc