Tonight I went to see the new Batman movie and it was nothing short of amazing. That being said, there is something interesting that I learned. Our lives are so manipulated by the things around us that I think we completely lose track of what life is really about.
It is so easy to live and be happy when things are going well and according to plan but it seems as though we all fall apart when something we don't expect or didn't plan happens to us; when in reality that is when it is the most important to show who we are and what we stand for...I guess in that sense most of us do show our true colors. The problem is, those may not be our best moments, especially if our backs are to the wall.
In truth our lives shouldn't be spent trying to "become" something...they should be spent in "being" someone. We work so hard at want we want that we overlook the experiences we go through to get there. Even worse, we stop at intervals along the way to judge what our progress is based on our perception at that time of whether or not we think we will make it. How on earth can you do that? They say you start a journey of a hundered miles with one footstep...but there is no way that footstep is going to tell you whether or not you are going to make it the rest of the way.
I think that tonight, strangely, I learned that life is NOT about what you want to be, its about who you need to be. We will never be measured by our desire to be good, nice or charitable...we will be measured by the what we did at the times we needed to do something. I am always amazed by the people that say, I was going to stop and help but...{enter excuse}. It's as though saying that is enough to make it better. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. What about the road to heaven?
I don't think there is a road, I think its a staircase, better yet a ladder and its not about how high you climb; its about how many people you raise up on your shoulders. If we stop looking at who we WANT to be and evaluate whether or not we are the person others NEED us to be, then we will reach our true potential.
You can reach for the stars all you want...but only by lifting another will we ever get closer to them. (And yes, I just made that up.) ;-)
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