Do me a favor and breath deeply. Pull it in and then release it. The air is incidental, isn’t it? It’s the breathing that you noticed. You probably gave little thought to the air itself. That’s because air is all around and it feels pliable and weak. It is only when air is marshaled into a formidable force, like a hurricane, that it gets the respect that it deserves. We need the air that we breath, it a building block with the potential to give life or take it away. It is a resource of infinite importance that is invisible because we only see it when it smacks us in the face like in a hurricane.
Air is not the only resource that we besmirch on regular basis. Even for those that are visible, we cannot always see them because we are too busy with our present lives to notice. The world is not lacking for resources or opportunities but rather people that can see them in their dormant state. Most of us are waiting to get picked up in a hurricane of opportunity. The problem is that the hurricane is never coming. You need to go get the hurricane, possibly even build it from the ground up; one molecule at a time.
The world has already gifted you the component pieces. Are you going to complain that it has not put them together for you? Or can you find the joy in the noticing, finding, building and creating? If you don’t build your own hurricane, you’ll need to chase someone else’s and take the chance of being blown away.
Go find what you need today!
Pete
Growing up, my grandparents owned an A-frame house in the Pocono Mountains. It remains one of my favorite places in the world even though they sold it over 20 years ago. This place was spectacular! It had no TV, only a radio that may have been from the 1950’s. There was no running water, we had to fill 5 gallon jugs at the spring nearby. The toilet was filled by rainwater that needed to be pumped into the basin after each use. There were exactly two bedrooms and about twelve beds. The master bedroom was on the first floor and it contained one king size bed. The rest of the beds were set up end to end in two columns on the second floor varying from a crib up to a queen size. At maximum capacity, the second floor could sleep about 20 people. It was located on a gravel road about a half mile from a lake with a small sand beach. The nearest store or other forms of civilization were at least five miles away. It was a wonderful place to vacation.
Huryk Unlimited 