Good Morning

So often we find ourselves wanting more, feeling that undeniable feeling that what we have is OK but we know that there is more out there for us.  This can't be all there is to life, can it...? There has to be another level, some sort of purpose, a grander design... something.  But what we often find is there is not, this is the life you have and if it is going to be any grander it will be up to you to make it that way. "You have to save your own life." No one is coming down with a magic wand and granting you the life you dreamed of, there is no Genie or Fairy God Mother.  Your life is a byproduct of decisions made within circumstances provided.  If you want more, you will have to do more, be more and decide at every opportunity that I will create what it is I lack. No one can or will do that for you.

The thing that I find baffling is that we will be immersed in a life we have come to loathe all the while continuing to make choices that lead us down the same path.  Are we masochists?  Why do we delight in our own pain and discomfort? Why do we wake up each day and make the same decisions that offer the same results, results the we will proclaim at every opportunity that we hate.  Why do we do this?  Is the pain of change more frightening than the pain of mediocrity?  In this life there are so many paths we can take, no one is really stuck or forced to be where they are.  Each day presents new opportunities, a chance to change your life.  So why choose to drudge through the mire of a paradigm you claim to no longer be vested in? 

I ask myself these same questions all the time, late at night I have visions of the life I'd like to be living, things I want to do, and decisions I need to make.  Each night a game plan is drawn out, strategic moves are calculated, I know exactly where I want to go and how I am going to get there. "First I'll wake up and do this, then that, and that will lead to this and then I'll do that and this and then that and BOOM!" 50 million dollars, a yacht and residual income to sustain me for the remainder or my days... lol It's just that easy, right. It's always that easy at 2 am on a sleepless night, lying in bed making plans to take over the world.  But it's something about the morning that separates those that have and those that want.  The rising sun is that great equalizer that keeps the dreamers, dreaming and the Lion's feasting.  I guess it's work ethic, or maybe a maniacal obsession for improvement that makes some wake up at the crack of dawn and hit the ground running.  I cant say I know exactly what it is but I know that it's something different.