Daily Mood Quote
Day 55 – June 28, 2011
Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~Henry David Thoreau
A few days ago my husband made a statement in public that has stuck with me ever since he said it. He said, "You're either fortunate or your not. You can be prepared, you can be educated, you can be intelligent, but things can still go wrong." He continued to say, "Those who believe that their good lives are by there own doing, don't understand that they are fortunate." He went on to say, "you can do everything right and still things can go wrong. Fortune makes the difference and I don't mean money."
If you look at the history of the world, you have intelligent people, working earnestly, with good intent all over the globe and by accident of time, geography, civilization or culture, there are those who are fortunate and those who are not. It has nothing to do with who they are, or whether they are good or bad. It also has nothing to do with their dreams. There is a saying "crap happens" (my husband has a stronger word, I don't want to use that one) and it happens to the educated as well as the uneducated, the intelligent, the prepared, the rich and the poor. The question is, are you fortunate or not? This can change in an instant and without your consent. I had a good job, but another company bought the company I worked for and I lost my job, in one of the toughest job markets around. It happens. There it is, crap happens.
In the new movie Larry Crowne with Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, (scheduled to be released this Friday, July 1, 2011), a yet to be identified actress (I have only seen her profile in the trailer) said, "you are never to old to learn." Sometimes that means going back to school like Larry Crowne and "me." Sometimes that means learning from the unfortunate situations that life brings us. We may need to learn empathy, understanding, or even compassion for those to whom we formerly didn't give a second thought. The official movie descriptions says, "sometimes clouds have silver linings” and my husband says, "sometimes the rains those clouds bring, help us to grow." Although that's cold comfort when you are being poured on. Remember the rain too shall pass. Be patient and press onward and don't allow the dissenting opinions of others, who may be fortunate now but lack understanding, to stop you from building your castles in the air. Even if that means starting with only a dream.
What "castle" will you dream of today?
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