A place called there.....
There is a place called "there." It is not a neighborhood one lives in. You can't find it on a map. Neither money, nor education, nor influence can get you there. It is a place in life that all wise people seek. It is the place where your soul starts to sing,the place where you sense with all that is in you: "This is where I am meant to be!" "There" is the place that God calls us to from the beginning, and most of us spend years, like rats in a maze, trying to make it through all the twists and turns of life trying to get "there."

It appears that "there" is the answer to the test of time. The object of the game of life is to get "there" before the bell rings. So we run, sometimes wildly, often chaotically, trying desperately to attain a place so difficult to articulate that most people do not understand what drives us. Like children playing tag, we get touched by this place called "there," and then run and search, trying to find the place. Yes, once you have been touched by destiny, it evades you and almost avoids you. Yet it tease you, taunts you, flirtingly allures you. Tag, you are it! Get up and go after it before the bell rings and the same ends and you find that you wasted your time missing what could have been mastered; calling what could have been conquered; and hoping for what could have been had.

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So what this is saying is that people lose sight of the fact that life is a journey not a destination?

sinister said:

This and far, far more....

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Where is that from? Or is this something you have been pondering?

sinister said:

One of all my all time favorite speakers..

TD Jakes

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

He is very good I have seen him a couple times.....I used to ponder things like that back in the day...I don't so much anymore

sinister said:

Thats why God gave us men like him... to remind us to again do so!

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

For me it's not that I forgotten to it's just I kinda analyized the heck out of just about everything and I have been taking a break from thinking on that level.....I tend to get lost in it....I find it very interesting but I over do it.....

sinister said:

a lot of people lose sight of that I think

I think the hardest thing for people is to simply let themselves exist and let things up to chance, regardless of belief.

Letting yourself know that whatever happens just happens and you deal with life as it happens to me is a fight for a lot of people-and one I've just gotten to this year actually.

There's an awareness of self and peace that you can find if you try to just be and know that you control your actions, but everything else will happen.

I used to be a lot like sinister and analyze everything to the micro little point until just realizing later on-that stressing over things is useless.

It's all in how your perspective is-whether that's from religion, peace of mind through music, therapy or whatever works-if you find it, hold onto it.



(Insert smart ass comment here.)

subhuman09 said:

Thread like these makes me feel like I belong here
[Edited 10/10/04 9:04am]

Muse2NOPharaoh said:

Hehe, I'm here Are you there?

Are we there yet?