"Imagine" is one of the most beautiful songs ever written, but it was written by a shortsighted idiot who died young and thus barely had to live with any of the consequences of his actions.
It's been a recurring theme for me, watching people I care about self-destruct because they chose living for the day over fighting for tomorrow. Often involving drugs, and often involving letting bad people have way too important a role in your life.
It isn't easy trying to live a good life, but you have to give it your best every day, and when you fail to live up to your own ideals you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try to do better tomorrow. You don't need to be ideal to be good or even to be great, but on the balance you need to get it right more often than you get it wrong. Many extraordinary results come from ordinary men choosing to do ordinary things every single day.
Many people talk about someday writing a book, I actually accomplished it. I didn't do anything so amazing, I just chose to write every weekend, and make it to the end, then push it over the finishing line with a few touches and now it's on sale and has sold more than the 12 copies many books apparently sell (not quitting my day job!)
I'm on my fifth chapter book with my toddler. That sounds insane, but one chapter a week is all it takes to finish multiple books a year.
Terry Fox is a Canadian hero who walked half way across the country on a prosthetic leg from Newfoundland to a city in northwestern Ontario. Even driving, that's a huge distance, but he walked, and he did it one step at a time.
In the same way that virtue stacks on itself, so does vice. People typically don't just wake up with cops battering down your door or living in a trap house or friendless and alone. It's a nation you walk through one step at a time.
It's been a recurring theme for me, watching people I care about self-destruct because they chose living for the day over fighting for tomorrow. Often involving drugs, and often involving letting bad people have way too important a role in your life.
It isn't easy trying to live a good life, but you have to give it your best every day, and when you fail to live up to your own ideals you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and try to do better tomorrow. You don't need to be ideal to be good or even to be great, but on the balance you need to get it right more often than you get it wrong. Many extraordinary results come from ordinary men choosing to do ordinary things every single day.
Many people talk about someday writing a book, I actually accomplished it. I didn't do anything so amazing, I just chose to write every weekend, and make it to the end, then push it over the finishing line with a few touches and now it's on sale and has sold more than the 12 copies many books apparently sell (not quitting my day job!)
I'm on my fifth chapter book with my toddler. That sounds insane, but one chapter a week is all it takes to finish multiple books a year.
Terry Fox is a Canadian hero who walked half way across the country on a prosthetic leg from Newfoundland to a city in northwestern Ontario. Even driving, that's a huge distance, but he walked, and he did it one step at a time.
In the same way that virtue stacks on itself, so does vice. People typically don't just wake up with cops battering down your door or living in a trap house or friendless and alone. It's a nation you walk through one step at a time.
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