Thursday, January 3, 2013

findING your way...

This is your adventure.

It is not what you thought it’d be.

It is not always as exciting as you’d once imagined,
at least not on the surface.

It is darker and scarier than you could have dreamed.

Some of the days seem long, and tiring, and you don’t always feel like
the hero you’d always thought of,

Strong, valiant, and brave.

Other days seem difficult and impossible, the kind they never told you about.

The kind filled with back breaking work, or even the slow strange tears of failure.

There is sweat, the kind that causes you to stop for just a moment and wipe your brow, before you just keep plodding on.

It’s not at all like they said.

It doesn’t feel like an adventure.

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But it may be one still, an adventure that is,
and it’s yours.

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There, beneath what seems so dim and cold.
Or, so ordinary and normal, not the stuff of some great story.

It’s there.

The quiet slow kind of adventure,
the kind that makes you who you’ve always wanted to be.

Someday it may come, quicker than you dreamed, or slower,
that is not for me to say,
nor you,

Someday, You will find yourself again on some marvelous mountain top.

Standing on two strong legs,
And that will be your adventure too.

You will have conquered, and fought, and rejoiced, and sang.

But this, this dark and ordinary day,
this one moment,

this, dear friend,

This is your adventure.

Live it well.

3 comments:

  1. Ali, this is beautiful - I'm assuming you wrote it. I might return here on occasion to be reminded of this truth, because these words certainly ring true for seasons of my life... not always what I imagined it to be, but always an adventure of sorts and always mine to live. :-)

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  2. Elizabeth. Thank you. You have certainly had quite the adventure over the last year. Miss you!

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  3. Elizabeth. Thank you. You have certainly had quite the adventure over the last year. Miss you!

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