I’ve been trying to find this exact quote but it goes something like this…
Our thoughts lead to words, words lead to actions, actions lead to habits, habits lead to character and character to destiny.
I think it’s true. Our lives are testament to the daily minute-by-minute choices we make. Turns out that we are not only what we eat, though I think there’s more to that particular cliche than we’d like to believe.
But, we are also the sum of how we perceive the world & what we believe to be the Truth about Things. We are truly what we think, what we say and what we do.
We are in a constant state of becoming. The trick is to choose what we want that to look like.
I say this knowing that none of us have equal circumstances. Some people really get dealt a crappy hand, whether due to genetics or the country they were born in to or the kind of family that completely takes the fun out of dysfunctional.
I loved the movie Hugo and how he believed that the world was like a big machine. And because there were no spare parts in a machine, he had to think that his life too, must have meaning and importance.
Truly, the poor kid’s life sucked; orphaned and abandoned and living in clock tower in a Paris train station while subsisting on stole croissants. It is not a particulary upbeat saga. But Hugo overlaid his own framework and meaning on to his story, and voila! he had purpose and a reason for going on.
I believe we ascribe meaning to our lives one ticking minute at a time. This is a completely individual act. I cannot decide what meaning your life should have, nor can you push your view of what you think is important and meaningful on to mine.
I find this to be both a wonderful and terrifying thought. But then, how would I know it was an important concept to me unless I found it a titch overwhelming?
