Happy New Year!!
I guess I can still say that right? I mean, it's still January, soooo...yeah. It is MY blog anyway, right?...RIGHT??.....Okay then :).
Well, if you really get to know me, you'd know that I say sarcastic lines like I did above. My hope is that just like that line, my lines would get a chuckle out of the person they are directed to. It's either that or the not-so-subtle "Daniel-you-are-so-dumb" look I can get pretty frequently. Either way, my jokes demand a response usually.
When the new year is approaching,a lot of people seem to brace themselves for some kind of new life full of new hopes and dreams. I mean, that's what resolutions are made of right?? People have hopes and dreams that they feel they should accomplish in the new year. It's funny(not really but..), in my experience, people seem to make resolutions from the great ideas in their heads.
That's good and all, but if I can judge anything, I'd say that many of these endeavors aren't done out of desperation from the heart.
On January 1st of this year, I addressed this on Facebook. Here's what I posted:
"Just a thought: People make a lot of a resolutions for the new year. That's not a revelation, and it may be done with good intent. IMO however, only a few people make the resolutions out of a place from where their soul DESPERATELY wants that change. Resolutions may come from a thought in the mind as a good idea but not from a place of desperation. I'm reminded of the character named Killian from Iron Man 3. Sure, he's the villain but he thanked Tony Stark for something: Desperation. He achieved his status of power from desperation and almost defeated Iron Man and all that he had built.
My encouragement to you all and myself is to think about what your soul needs. I will add to seek God about these things too. Go beyond the good ideas and search your soul DEEPLY and go after what you truly need and get desperate. If its social justice, pray for change, seek organizations who support the change and do something about it. If it's exercise, if you can-stop reading this post and start by taking a walk. If it's getting to work on your spiritual life, read Matthew chapter 6 and see how Jesus prayed and pray for someone you know. Start somewhere and get desperate! A journey usually starts with a single step!"
See, I think desperation can be used in a good and bad way. It depends on the motive, goal and way of acting out of that desperation. For instance, a guy likes a girl at school. His goal is to ask her out to the soon-to-come homecoming dance. He strikes up conversations with her, but she keeps blowing him off. If he is a respectful guy, he'd had the courage to ask her out for the dance. And she says no the first time, but say she is a patient girl who needs to know that a guy truly cares about her by showing real interest in her? Well this guy writes her a poem, slips it into her locker,she opens and reads the poem that ends with asking her out to the dance, and her heart is so smitten by his words that she she checks yes under the poem, then everyone is happy and no harm was done. What if he was a jerk though, and after she says no to him the first time and he goes ballistic towards her in front of the entire school because he's desperate for her to know his feelings and that she hurt them?? What way was more honorable?? The first, right? Of course, depending on the situation and the people involved, but no one wants to be heckled, especially in front of others. The goal was to get a date with her to the dance, the motive was because he likes her but the different ways he acted on his feelings were on opposite sides of the spectrum of respect. To put a spin on it, what if the goal wasn't really because he liked her, but it was because he wanted to have sex with her?? Then that's when motives come to play.
If I didn't confuse you with that totally made up scenario, then you know what I mean. Desperation can lead us to do awesome things or terrible things, in awesome or terrible ways. My point, however, is that people should search within themselves what they need to do in life and find the amount of desperation they need. Go after that goal with tenacity and fight until you reach it! That's what I'm doing.
