The Tortoise & The Hare

There is a pounding in my head as I round the turn in the road and my vision is blurred by the sweat from my brow. As my breath becomes more labored I focus on my stride and think of other days when life was a little less stressed. Another straight away and the sun is blinding my vision. Is someone gaining on me? Am I in danger of being passed? Another turn and the gravel gives way, I am falling into what seems to be an endless abyss. As my knee hits the earth and my body gives way I lay motionless looking up at a serene blue sky with cotton candy clouds and feel a gentle breeze cooling my broken ego. There is that sound of birds again replacing the pounding of my heart and it seems like I should stay here for a while to rest. But if I do take rest where will I be when I get up again? Does it really matter all that much? Maybe my fall has taught me something. Could it be that I am running from something rather than to it? For if I am in pursuit than I have all the time in the world. But if I am running from than I must know what it is so that I can prepare myself to face it eventually.

Life is like a race but it doesn't have to be, it can also be a gathering. In fact it can be almost anything we want it to be if we want it bad enough. Imagine a time and place where we are all truly a global village, where poverty and hunger no longer exist; a sublime banquet to which all are invited to participate. I know it sounds idealistic but isn't that what makes it all the more possible. Teach a man to work and he will do so but teach a man to dream and he will work with much more tenacity. Teach a man to love and he will love forever because that is the power that drives the universe. The universal equation that begins and ends it all.

I know that I have a long way to go to get where ever it is that I am headed, but I think that I will take more time now to enjoy life. I have been told that I am too accessible but that is something that makes me happy. I have also been told that I work too hard, this is definitely true and I am working on it. Others have said that I play too hard, this is probably true as well. But there is this philosophy in Astrology that I subscribe to and that is; if you can identify your strengths and weaknesses, if you are totally honest with yourself, you can make the Ying and Yang work for you. You can do it, I tell myself at least once a week and will continue to until I have done it.

Will I ever get up and finish the race? You bet I will but like the hare and tortoise, maybe there is more than one way to win it.

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