some dreams live on in time forever
those dreams,you want with all your heart
and i will do whatever it takes
follow through with the promise i made
put it all on the line
what i hoped for at last would be mine
if i could reach,higher
just for one moment touch the sky
from that one moment in my life
i am gonna be stronger
know that i have tried my very best
i would put my spirit to the test
if i could reach
some days are meant to be remembered
those days we rise above the stars
so i will go the distance this time
seeing more the higher i climb
that the more i believe
all the more that this dream would be mine
"reach" by gloria estefan & diane warren
hitting the highnotes
a simple girl in a big big world
Seldom,very seldom does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised,or a little mistaken.
- Jane Austen, Emma
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
sounding the rhythmof life
Monday, September 18, 2006
I have friends who did,are doing and plan to do wonderful things in their lives. Hmm,ok maybe wonderful isn’t the best word to put it, but meaningful definitely. I’m not talking so much about reaching out to people,touching souls and changing lives. Those would belong to the ‘extraordinary’ category (if we remember the documentary some years back). But it is the 'other' things we can do with our lives. Our dreams,interests,passions...
Well, it just so happens that a friend recently visited his ‘hometown’ or ancestral village back in China, an activity some call seeking your roots. Another friend is at the moment taking part in the sit-in demonstration in Taiwan, to be an observer and a part of history. Yet another plans to make a trip to North Korea some time in the beginning of next year.
These are the things you wouldn’t exactly think of doing as you plod down the usual path to work every morning. They are probably also the last things on your mind when your head hits the pillow at night. But I thought they are things that could add just that bit more color in our lives, a kind of liberation from life that has turned into a routine, the road less traveled yet filled with wonders we might never discover if we never step foot on it.
A magazine article this month caught my attention. You know,the Problem of the Month column sort of thing. And so September’s problem is about finding your calling and if your life lacks purpose. Something I find myself thinking every once in a while, often when I slow down my tracks or in the dead quiet of the night. But suffice it to say, I never quite figured it out. Sometimes if standing on the top of a mountain and shouting to the heavens would help, I thought I would like that.
The article began with a quote by Mother Teresa that reads, “In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do things with great love”. A very nice quote though I thought it didn’t really sit well with the article (the mind somehow wanders back again to the ‘extraordinary’ docu).
Anyway some excerpts from that article that got me thinking:
*** “You know you are not on the right path when you end your daydrained or empty, and often with avague sense of dissatisfaction. However when you follow your heart or dreams, even if you are exhausted from a hard day’s work, you will feel that it was allwell worththe effort.”
*** “Choosing to make real your true path means you are choosing to reveal yourauthentic self. Manifesting that in a way that isrelevant in the worldwe live in will unfold only when we are clear about ourintention.”
*** “Having a clear purpose means you can meet the world with the full knowledge that youhave a veryunique contributionto offer. How large that contribution should be isentirely up to you.”
It is not anything really foreign to us but wham bam,it just loves to hit you when you are feeling that your life is kind of going nowhere. Which probably explains why magazines can run such articles for ten times and people like me will still read them. And you know what's worse? That you know you ain’t exactly doing yourself a favor by not doing anything about it. Ouch.
So yes,at such moments, I wish I could get my head out of those clouds I'm stuck in half the time. I wish the key thought running through my mind these days is not just about the need to start losing weight. I wish I could use all that I have learnt and put them to some sort of use. I wish I could go out there and be an independent go-get-it sort of gal. I wish I could tear down the many mental walls I have and just be a free spirit.
And I admit somewhere in the depths of my heart I also have the teeny weeny wish that I could reach out to people,touch souls,change lives and be someone extraordinary.
Like requesting the genie for another last wish, of course I wish at the end of typing this entry that I can get all the above done and not having to wish for anything more or anything less. Unless maybe to wish the same for you.
