Perspective



When I turned ten I remember thinking that I was old.

No, really.

I vividly remember sitting on the steps leading from our house to our driveway--on the actual day of my 10th birthday--and thinking, "Most Olympic Athletes started learning/training for their sport before they were 10. And I'm 10."

I knew that very day that I would never be in the Olympics.

And honestly, that realization kind of crushed me.

It's funny. Flash forward 30 years . . .

I hardly recognize that crushed 10 year old.

How's that?

Well, I guess in 30 years of living, I've adopted two perspectives that have changed my life:

1. Nothing is impossible.
2. Everything is going to be okay, even if it's not okay. Okay?

You see, I don't really want to be an Olympic athlete (and I'm not really sure the ten year old ME wanted to either), but I fully believe that if someone had the goal of being in the Olympics, that's possible.

What's even more funny?

The 40 year old me believes even a 40 year old could achieve that Olympic dream.

(There are 40 year old atheletes at the Olympics, ya know. Sure, you may have to move to a remote country where the population is so small they don't have enough athelets to field all of the sports. Sure, you may have to learn archery or curling. BUT, it's possible.)

Yet, the 40 year old me also believes there are times when the effort it takes to achieve our goals is determined to be "too much."

In those times, the goal ends up not being so much about the end goal, but the process itself. (Deep, I know.)

And in those cases, the 40 year old me believes that the world, God, our families, and friends help us adapt our dreams/goals--or help us come to a place where we lose/accept the desire to have those goals.

And we move on to new goals/dreams.

So, in the end--or the beginning or the middle--

Everything's going to be okay,
even if it's not okay.

In fact, it's going to be fabulous.

Okay?

(Nod your head and say okay.)

(And finally, I apologize for speaking about myself in third person. It won't shouldn't happen again.)

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