This may sound like a negative, but hang
on – it gets good.
The Premise-
When you’re lying on your deathbed,
one of the really cool things to say is,
“I really explored myself.”
~Carol S.
Dweck, Ph.D.
When you come to the end, the idea is to
have used up everything within you. If
we have our music still inside of us, we have wasted some of life.
And this is not about music – it’s about
living life full and out loud. In the
movie Dead Poets Society, Robin
Williams does an abridged version of the great Thoreau quote:
“I went to the woods
because I
wanted to live
deliberately,
I wanted to live deep
and
suck out all the
marrow of life …
“ … to
live deep and suck out all the marrow of life.”
Gotta love that.
I have discovered that I am a
multi-layered, multi-faceted individual who can do a lot of different things. I’ve discovered my passion along the way and
now I am focused on what I want and am headed for it like a straight
arrow.
Are you in the process of sucking the
marrow out of life?
Are you living life without regrets?
Let me tell you a story:
There once was a master violinist who had to
sell his finely crafted violin. After
selling it he vowed one day to buy it back.
Time passed.
He saved his money and was finally able to visit
the pawn shop. Unfortunately, it has
been sold to a collector who wanted to place it in a shadow box and hung on his
wall.
The violinist visited the collector and pleaded
with him to sell him back his violin. The
collector refused. In desperation, the
virtuoso asked if he could at least play his violin one last time before it became
a collector’s piece, never to be heard from again.
The collector agreed.
The virtuoso tuned the strings and began playing. As the music filled the room, the collector’s
heart was softened and he agreed to give the violin back to the master violinist. He could not deprive the world of the lovely music
from this fine musical instrument. He
could not let the violin sit in silence.
Please don’t sit in silence.
Get your music out – whatever kind of
music you make.
Do you write books? Write, my friend. Write.
Do you build buildings? Build the finest you can build.
Do you work on computers? Be the best computer repair-person the world
has ever seen.
When you come to your end, I want you to
be able to say with joy and confidence …
“I really explored myself.”
P Michael
Biggs
Offering Up-Moments
One Moment at a Time
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