Whatever Fight It Takes...

...To Set Your Heart Free

“True mastery is really, really hard. I think that’s one reason why few people achieve it. It requires enormous amounts of work and persistence. It requires time. It requires grit. It requires effort. It requires setbacks. And many of us aren’t willing to accept that deal. We want to achieve mastery without pain, and that’s not possible.” — Daniel Pink

These things I’m after, they really matter to me. In some ways, they are me, because they point me to who I’m meant to be, so much so that when I fight for them, I am fighting for my own life. 

I have to keep reminding myself of this, because that’s not how it feels slogging through the muddy bog of everyday existence. There, it just feels hard, often pointlessly hard, and painfully slow. It can be so damn tedious, I feel like screaming. I feel like blowing the whole thing up. 

That’s why it’s so important to remind myself what it’s all for, why it matters so damn much. These things I’m fighting for, they strike at the core of who I believe I am, what I believe I can be, and what I have to offer the world. They are my Why, my own personal True North, and to forsake them is to forsake myself, to forsake this miraculous gift of life I have been given, and to forsake the hidden treasures inside me that I alone can bring to the world.

This is my Great Quest, my Epic Tale, my Hero’s Journey, and just as Galadriel said to Frodo about his great task, so it can be said to me: “If you do not find a way, no one will.”

This race is mine to run. No one can run it for me. In fact, no one else even has to give a damn about it. But I do. I have to give this every last damn I’ve got! Not to prove anything to anyone else. Not for status or reward. But because it means everything to my own heart. And if I betray my heart, then what’s the point of any of this? What’s the point of life at all?