THE TRAiN OF LiFE
Some folks ride the train of life,
Looking out the rear,
Watching miles of life roll by,
And marking every year.
They sit in sad remembrance,
Of wasted days gone by,
And curse their life for what it was,
And hang their head and cry.
But I don't concern myself with that,
I took a different vent,
I look forward to what life holds,
And not what has been spent.
So strap me to the engine,
As securely as I can be,
I want to be out in the front,
To see what I can see.
I want to feel the winds of change,
Blowing in my face,
I want to see what life unfolds,
As I move from place to place.
I want to see what's coming up,
Not looking at the past,
Life's too short for yesterdays,
It moves along too fast.
So if the ride gets bumpy,
While you are looking back,
Go up front, and you may find,
Your life has jumped the track.
It's all right to remember,
That's part of history,
But up front's where it's happening,
There's so much mystery.
The enjoyment of living,
Is not where we have been,
It's looking ever forward,
To another year and ten.
Make a little bit of a positive difference today, and a little bit tomorrow too. You won't change the world overnight, yet if you persist, with just a little every day, it will soon add up to something big.
Take measured steps toward your dreams, toward your goals. Be consistent and be persistent. There is a very real starting point right now, today, for anything you wish to achieve. Nothing is out of reach when you make the commitment to move steadily toward it.
Don't wait until your dream is within reach -- do what is necessary to put it within reach. Most of the things you desire will not come to you. You must make the effort to go to them, steadily and persistently.
You can spend thirty years wishing for easy, overnight success that never comes, or you can actually go out and work day by day toward that success. By the end of this very day, you can be significantly closer to achieving anything you desire. What it takes is effort. You won't make the entire leap today. Yet string enough days together, one after the other, and you're there.
Don't let your thinking stop you from doing. You can think your way out of doing anything if you're so inclined. You can rationalize just about any kind of irrational behavior. But that's not the way to let your thoughts serve you.
Thinking brings us many great things, yet there are times when thinking obscures rather than enlightens. There are worthwhile things we cannot comprehend, which we can nevertheless experience. Attempt to fully rationalize love, beauty or faith and you lessen the experience, diluting the value of each. We crave the power that thinking brings, and yet sometimes we gain more by being overpowered than by doing the overpowering.
Thinking is one of the most wonderful and powerful tools we have. But it is not the only thing. Certainly you want to question. Certainly you want to be curious. Certainly you want to define and analyze and understand the world in which you live. Yet you also want to live for the pure living of it. Plan, and also flow. Examine, and also see. Think, and also live.