Follow Your Passions

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.”
- Homer

“When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’”
- Steven Wright

It’s very late and I have not begun formally writing Friday’s post yet. So this will be brief, because I have many hours to fill with fun, life-enriching activities, and some of them will occur rather early.

I had a conversation with a friend of mine today about the universe and how to fix it. Or really, rather, that it is our perception and perhaps not reality that it is “broken” at all. I believe, you see, that our perception defines our reality. As a Christian, I am sometimes asked what proof I have that my beliefs are true. The best answer I have is, it’s called a “faith” because that’s what you have to have to truly believe in something you can’t physically hand someone or show them. I look at the same evidence around me as everyone else, and I perceive a completely different reality about what makes sense as a base of my spirituality.

Have you ever just “known” something was going to happen, and then it did? When I was going through all of my interviews in my senior year of college, I “knew” which job I’d end up with. Before we ever actually began formally dating, I “knew” that I was going to marry the woman that became my wife. Did a series of my choices, conscious or not, lead to those outcomes in some sort of self-fulfilled prophecy? Did my conviction and absolute certainty in my heart about these things lead me to influence others into believing there is no other possible outcome? I can’t answer those questions with any certainty, but I can say that my best guess is that I had gone through enough deep self-evaluation to know how to recognize the best fit for me in each situation when I came across it, and from there the fact that I kept perceiving my reality to be that getting my top job pick and marrying my wife were foregone conclusions at least probably didn’t hurt the eventual outcomes.

Your mind has the potential to be incredibly powerful, regardless of how you choose to use it. Wielded wisely, it can be an incredibly potent tool for good.