In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.
Albert Schweitzer
Now don't anyone forget that I am first and foremost a dreamer. I believe in shooting for the stars, dreaming of reaching the moon and putting everything on the line for what others would call an improbable dream. I hope that someday my life can offer some sort of inspiration to someone trying to keep going.
There is some truth however to what Mr. Schweitzer says. It is important to have an ideal that we are grasping at, but it is equally important to take the time to look around and notice the wonderful, amazing things that are already in existence on this earth. This quote also brought to mind a movie that I already posted about, Gattaca. At the very end of the movie the main character, Vincent, reflects on how much he has wanted to get off the earth, and at that exact moment he had finally realized the beauty of the world he was leaving. I'm not one for spouting overused cliches...I usually go for the obscure ones...but stop and the smell the roses is quite relevant here.
I guess what I am really trying to get at is dream...dream...dream, but don't ignore the wonderments that surround us. There are so many things on this planet that are awesome and deserve our reverence. We should enjoy what we've been given and use it as motivation to obtain our deepest desires. Go camping, take a hike, go to a park, or at least look at some of the beautiful pictures you can find on the internet. Never mind....get off your duff and go outside. Feel free to leave your own stories and feelings. Don't forget to dream!!!!! Then make it happen.
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I am not a blogger but with the advent of your recent new arrival and you comments her, I offer the following quote as one of my favorite by the naturalist Rachel Carson.
“A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had the influence of the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask that her gift to each child in the world would be a sense of wonder so indestructible that it would last throughout life, as a an unfailing antidote against the boredom and disenchantments of later years, the sterile preoccupation with things that are artificial, the alienation from the sources of our strength.”
This is from her book "The Sense of Wonder."
Thanks so much for that quote. I really believe that if we learn to have that sense of wonderment again like when we were children, the bad will seem so trivial. So much of our adult lives focus on the horrible things that happen everyday. That's the reason that I hate watching the news for the most part. We are a society that is obsessed with mulling over the wrong things that everyone does. There are some amazing people who do some amazing things. Those are the things we should be looking for and putting in our news.
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