Purposes and Potentials

Today feels like the start of something great. I'm not sure what that something is but it has been building for years and is finally beginning to come to the forefront of my mind. Let me start with the problem. We have all become consumers. Great ideas go uncreated because we are too busy consuming what others have made. It is as though the vast amount of information available to us all is somehow stifling creativity by flooding it out in the same way the stars are washed out in the light pollution of the city. Incessant noise fills our homes and the problem it is not the noise of happy children at play. It is the tinny sound of laptop speakers T.V. laugh tracks, iPods and radios, YouTube and Pandora. Silence.

Today a sense of purpose has begun to become real in my mind. The need to create, to learn and to better myself for whatever is to come. The need to bring order to the chaos that has become so prevalent in my life. Mine will not be a life of purposes not served or potentials not fulfilled. This world trains us from birth to do as we're told. Most of us seem unable to see the power that is our potential. Our ideas are hemmed in by the norms of society and the works that have been done by those before us. "It has not been done before." will never be an excuse one should allow. Most of the time life is seen as a series of challenges. Most of the time people see challenges as a bad thing. Challenges are the opportunities life gives us to shine.

This post is what is left of an idea I had and a feeling of greatness that faded in the white noise that fills my life. I think it's time for a little silence and meditation. Maybe I'll return and revise this so it makes sense.