The sun sets on another day…
It was a beautiful sunset, filled with snow. Filled with color, filled with more snow. I guess we can’t have everything, or can we? Maybe we can have enough.
I was talking to someone recently who went to a very touching ceremony. It is a ceremony that I would have had a difficult time keeping a dry eye, but when I asked about it they told me it was no problem at all, there was no reason to cry.
A few days later I was talking to someone else about songs that made you cry and they noted they didn’t want to feel sad. I asked if crying was always about sadness and it took them a little while to relate that crying was about a lot of things.
I look around the world and so many people equate crying with weakness. So many people think that if you cry you are not strong.
Here I sit, telling you now, that crying is often what makes me strong. No I don’t cry over spilled milk, nor do I cry about the silliness that anyone else goes through, instead I cry when I hear the national anthem. I cry when I see a friend that I haven’t seen in a long time. I cry when I’m proud of my children or my grandchildren or anyone else in my life. I cry when I see a movie like Armageddon where somebody sacrifices everything for someone else. I do not cry out of weakness, I cry out of my strength. After all, if you don’t feel deeply for what you fight for, how can you fight for it? More importantly, if you don’t feel deeply about what you are fighting for, how can you fight with tenacity and passion necessary to win.
Here’s an important part, I may be crying on the inside and not the outside from time to time. I may feel more deeply than what shows on my visage. It’s still there and I need you to understand that many of the strongest people I know are the same. Perhaps you don’t see it but they feel deeply, potentially more deeply than you could imagine.
How do you feel? Do your emotions drive you farther? Do you hide your emotions or suppress them not realizing that they can be the difference every day?
So as the sun sets on another day, I hope your day is quite amazing. I hope your twilight is beautiful. Mostly I hope that you feel deeply for the things that are important to you and somewhere along the way realize how important those things are. In the end it is your passion that will drive you further. Feel deeply and change the world, no matter what.
Sleep sweet, love life, and feel the sunset…