Not Giving Up

Lately I've encountered more than a few people that are bent on "Not Giving Up" on their dreams, or their goals or their career. Look at that phrase: Not Giving Up. The meaning behind it is truly a mystery. When the human mind sees NOT in front of any group of words it automatically sees what is being done as a negative. Split "Not Giving Up" apart and you have two negatives. "Not" and "Giving Up". I'm not entirely sure that the psyche can see them together as a positive, therefore what ends up happening is struggle, hardship, blood, sweat and tears. People become jaded, used up and uncomfortable with what they are doing, even though that is what they consciously believe they wake up for every day. Instead of "Not Giving Up" perhaps we should all just Do and Be. Tomorrow wake up and say "I am(fill in the blank)". Say it enough times over the next 21 days that you can't imagine being anything other than what you are. When a thought appears that goes against what you are, cancel it. So many of us run around in circles chasing after something that is so much more easily attainable than we could ever imagine, and that is exactly why. We imagine it to be difficult to attain, therefore it is.

Another sad and strange phenomenon I have run into recently is the idea that a person has to sacrifice something that they desperately want in life in order to have something else that they want in life. Why does anyone feel that they have to choose one thing over another? I think any one of us can attain anything that we want in any combination, we just have to let it Be. Life flows forward, why do we hold ourselves back? Why do we paddle upstream? Imagine, instead, that we grab the oars, turn ourselves around and paddle DOWN stream toward our goal. How much more quickly would we arrive at our destination?