Flash in the pan or slow burning amber

It seems like with so many things in life, people focus their efforts on purely the short term.  Maybe it's the nature of our species or a societal ideal thrust upon us at a young age.  Whatever the case may be, most times our greatest efforts are thwarted by short sightedness.  It's like we are given a finite amount of gasoline and we are apt to pour it all into one pan creating the biggest explosion possible, only for it to dwindle quickly and extinguish.

 

We never seem able to stop and connect the dots.  See that not only our actions, but the actions of others and that of the universe are also at work.  Newton so famously said "to every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."  Yet we act as though our lives are conducted in silos.  

 

Take a pile of wood and pour gasoline all over them.  Most times they'll burn themselves out before any real damage can be done.  But a slow burning amber, forgotten by most will continue to burn.  Slowly it will grow and spread it's roots deep.  Focused just the right amount it will eventually set the forest ablaze.

 

Here's to the slow burning amber.    

"The multiplying villanies of nature do swarm upon him"

And here I am purporting pen as brandished steel.  I wonder if when Shakespeare wrote that line in Macbeth he was thinking about me?  Certainly I've had no dealings with witches, although one could debate that.  And unlike our dear friend Macbeth I still yet draw breath.  But it would be surely disingenuous to claim that I haven't had my fair share of swarming.

 

Like many things in life bad fortune often comes by our own doing.  The skies seem to open and the evils of the world descend upon us all at once.  What are men to stand in the way of fate?  Unless we realize that we are the weavers of our own.  Although if you believe that, then there is no fate.  Just a future we create ourselves.  I like that version better.

 

It's definitely the optimist that thinks only he is capable of changing his position, but maybe that's the truth that the realist sees as well.  The pessimist is stuck in a world he is incapable of changing and those with the power lack the desire to do so.  Life is a game by which we only truly learn by trial and error.  And having the courage to take that step into the darkness is all one really needs to achieve greatness.

 

While the statement has been said so many times it's become cliche, it's still worth repeating.

"Dare to be great." 

I suck at deadlines

Yes this is an epiphany.  I've been creating writing deadlines and trying to get these series of books out to no avail.  Maybe it's the stress of writing to a date or I'm just a slacker in general.  But alas I've come to the conclusion that I suck at deadlines.

It's actually a bit depressing because I have all these super awesome stories in my head and I'm just entirely too slow to get them on paper.  I actually should be writing or attempting to write right now, but ugh...

Enough of my whining I shall shrink off to obscurity now...