April 24, 2010

"Running the Bases"



“It’s okay to think about what you want to do

until it’s time to start doing what you were meant to do.”

from THE ROOKIE


What are you meant to do?

And how do you know when it is time to start doing it?


Unlike weather, the setting sun or plants and trees programmed to grow into their design—predictable, bound with no alternatives.

We have will.

We learn, adapt and desire.


Freedom allows a powerful distraction.

Conflict with other lives and circumstance strains trust

in our individual abilities.

And a lifetime can progress before we are even meant

to address them center stage.

It is not easy.


Still, in the end, knowledge that all life has purpose

grants permission to pursue and discover, and contentment

when we hit the mark.








2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Having this very problem now and over and over in the past, this struck c lose to the bone. I'm still looking for the answer to that question.

Perhaps some people just are meant to be searchers who never find a place or fit a space. Nature proceeds in orderly fashion; I am a like a free radical in the bloodstream, dangerous mostly to myself

Valerie Connor said...

"Anonymous said" posted above is me and I hit the wrong bloody button. No need to be clandestine here.