Five Days, Five Questions - Day Five
5) If you could eliminate one thing from your life what would it be? How would your life be any different?
I don't know. This is kinda like that question where you are asked if there is one thing you could do over again, what would it be. That is hard because we are the sum of our experiences and the choices we have made.
I think my answer to what I would eliminate might be fear of failure or fear or watching the clock. I have always had a very keen sense of my humanity and the pressure to get it right the first time around because, well, we only get one time around. Life can weigh on me at times and I always want to do the right things so that I can live a life that is pleasing in God's eyes as well as those around me. I want to be honored. I want to be remembered. I want to make a difference. I don't want to be just another person that drank God's clean water and breathed his fresh air for 70 years. We owe more to this life, or should it be said This Life. I like it with caps a lot better.....
Along with that is the fear of letting go of life and what we know here and realizing that we all die. We all pass on. We will all leave others behind and these things have never sat well with me. Maybe that is something to explore at another time.
Without this fear, I see life as something much cleaner. I really think I would be able to live life without the fear of consequence. Fear of consequence is what pressures me I think into over thinking things and what I do and how I live my life. If I could get over this, there would be more space for me just to live "in the moment." Being in the moment and enjoying it all is a beautiful thing and I think that is really how God wants us to live.
I don't know. This is kinda like that question where you are asked if there is one thing you could do over again, what would it be. That is hard because we are the sum of our experiences and the choices we have made.
I think my answer to what I would eliminate might be fear of failure or fear or watching the clock. I have always had a very keen sense of my humanity and the pressure to get it right the first time around because, well, we only get one time around. Life can weigh on me at times and I always want to do the right things so that I can live a life that is pleasing in God's eyes as well as those around me. I want to be honored. I want to be remembered. I want to make a difference. I don't want to be just another person that drank God's clean water and breathed his fresh air for 70 years. We owe more to this life, or should it be said This Life. I like it with caps a lot better.....
Along with that is the fear of letting go of life and what we know here and realizing that we all die. We all pass on. We will all leave others behind and these things have never sat well with me. Maybe that is something to explore at another time.
Without this fear, I see life as something much cleaner. I really think I would be able to live life without the fear of consequence. Fear of consequence is what pressures me I think into over thinking things and what I do and how I live my life. If I could get over this, there would be more space for me just to live "in the moment." Being in the moment and enjoying it all is a beautiful thing and I think that is really how God wants us to live.
posted by Booster MPS at
5:22 PM
4 Comments:
I am so glad you are my friend.
I have to say that's a fine answer to a difficult question.
Nice, George... nice.
You are a very wise man. I hope you get your 70 years and then some.
I saw this picture the other day and it reminded me of you and your style. Happy Monday!
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