The Time Catcher

Has it really been two days since I wrote last?  My mind is trying to catch up with life, but it seems that is only a feat left for the someday long from now.  Edric, my son, turned 6 months old today.  Honestly, they have been the fasted 6 months of my life.  It seems when you want time to go slower, it speeds up.  But that is the truth of it all, right?  I have to spend my time pursuing something and achieving something before I run out of time.  This is my time.  Now.  The longer I spend putting off the difficult things, the less time I have to spend doing the things that really matter.  Living is a sort of entitlement.  Living well is something that is fought for.

Today I started my day making a list of the things that make me unique.  It is things that make me special and allow me to fulfill the purpose I was designed for.  As a society, we spend too much time fitting into the mold and not embracing the special pieces deep down inside.  It sounds ridiculous, but seriously.  Since when is something that is more common more valued?  There is a law: scarcity creates value.  If we shy away from the things about us that are unique and special, we will never understand our true value.

Think about anything.  The more common it is, the less it is worth.  It doesn't make any sense to try and replicate another person.  You will never be able to be them as good as they can.  By law, you will then never be your best, or their best.

A friend of mine recently bought his wife a new car.  When he bought it, he flew across the state and drove 6 hours back in the new vehicle, all in secret.  He could have bought practically the exact car in same town that he lived in.  It would have been a lot easier, but he didn't.  He went all that way to buy the mercedes with a color unique to that vehicle.  It was a rarity.  It was special.  It is amazing how far someone will go, and how much someone will do for something of rarity and value.  

The sooner we can identify our value, the further we will go to harness our success.  It is out there.  But the less we think of ourselves, the less it is worth fighting for.  Our capability doesn't change whether or not we think it's great.  Our chances of reaching that capability is less, but the capability itself is not.  I would rather think I am more capable than I really am and be wrong then think I am less capable and be wrong.  If I am going to be wrong, I might as well achieve the highest that I possibly can.  

I am fighting for belief.  I am fighting for my time.  I am fighting for my life.

-"So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom." -Psalms 90:12