The Winds of Fate
One ship sails East,
And another West,
By the self-same winds that blow,
Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales,
That tells the way we go.
Like the winds of the sea
Are the waves of time,
As we journey along through life,
Tis the set of the soul,
That determines the goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What is the set of your soul? What is the longing passion that burns inside of you?
Over time many people quiet their authentic self, their passionate self, in order to make a living. Often we do not see the clear path that allows us to do both, and we choose making a living as a means of pure survival. Then we fill our lives as a tactic to keep that burning passion quiet.
Who Are You?
As we grow older and seek out our destiny that passion continues to grow louder and louder, until it can no longer be buried. It cries out from our soul. It points us in directions we have not looked at for years.
Take time today to identify who you are? How do you define yourself? Not “what do you do?” or “What roles do you play?” but “WHO ARE YOU?”
Define who you are and begin to live your life from that definition.
Tis the set of the soul that determines the goal, and not the calm nor the strife.’
I never went 3 days straight without a drink of beer until I went on a diet. Now I can go 7 days without drinking a beer. Of course when I drink I gain weight and have to walk or run to lose the weight that the beer put on, to keep pace with the diet. That means that instead of losing 2 pounds in an 8 day stretch, because of the beer, it now costs me 10 days. The beer makes me repeat diet days, which I don’t like. It reminds me of the guy pushing a rock up the hill, only to let it fall and have to push it back up again.
Now I can keep straight when on a diet, but when NOT on the diet, when not on a mission to lose weight, I can’t go 7 days straight anymore. The most I can go without a beer is 3 days.
That is the curse that I have. AA can’t help me (Alcoholics Anonymous), nor prayer, nothing. But the diet trumps all!