Inspiration

 Inspiration is found around every corner, in things we read, people we see, stories we hear, but your mind has to be open to see the inspirations that surround you each day.

Inspirations can come from someone's successes, someone's failures.  It often comes from one's attitude and courage. Inspiration is something you can see, feel and touch.  Often times inspiration comes from someone who has experienced a hardship, whether it is health related, financial or emotional, the inspiration comes from how they have reacted to it and what they did to overcome or accept. 

It is today, March 17,2010 that I write about this young man, who is my cousin.  He is a beautiful person inside and out, full of life and adventure.  His intelligence is captivating, but even more than that his courage and strength and positive attitude toward the most difficult hand he has ever been dealt.

This young man at the age of 26, has just been diagnosed with Bone Marrow Cancer last week.  This was not his plan, his plan was to hike the Appalaichan, but he has been sidestepped from that. With this devastating diagnosis, he maintains positivity, hopefulness and the never quit attitude that I believe will bring him to complete health. 

Please take a moment and read what he has written today:  This is Pure Inspiration.  Also, please say a prayer. 

This young man, whom I am proud to say is my cousin, is an inspiration to me and I hope to others.


WHY ARE WE HERE? Written by Craig Dion

Copyright March 2010

 

 

1. Until we know every corner of space and the systems that govern it we will never truly know why we are on this earth.

2. Drop it and Breath! It is impossible to know WHY. From the great celestial based civilizations: the Egyptians, Aztecs, the great minds of Galileo and Nostradamus they all passed away with similar questions. While calendars have been developed and predictions have been made. These are futile queries because you will always be living now. Until the plan is physically presented by the systems that developed it; do not ever question your existence on this beautiful planet.

3. Do not spend too much time in your own head. See past yourself. This is where I struggle to this day. As Siddhartha Gautama “Buddha” has taught introspective is a beautiful thing but at the end of the day it does not help anyone else and you end up just emulating a tree.

4. To get a grasp of what to do while we are here has to be taken from the world’s simple things. Look at our nimble bodybuilding neighbors the ants. They never worry about things beyond their scope of perception; they spend all their energy doing what is needed for each other. Making sure everyone has everything they need to eat, that every ant has a safe place to go to when the day’s work is done. They insure a safe place for new generations to be born; they protect their young and guarding them each offspring as if it were their own. They take care of their sick, and when a member of their party falls to the threats of the world, the dead soldier is placed on the backs of its loved ones and carried home no matter how far the distance. There is no room for selfishness, anxiety, power struggles, inadequacies, fear, and manipulation in the government of ants. They simply share.

5. It is amazing how to this very day we as “elite creatures” cannot grasp these simple ideas and incorporate them in the core of our being. Centuries of government development has not touched a system so complete as the ants system. The rich man’s clothes are made with the same spool of thread as the poor man’s. A kayak can float on the same body of water as a 10 million dollar yacht. Money has to be taken out of the equation as a way to judge inner value. These lines we have developed to segregate ourselves from each other have to be forgotten and a circle of just love has to be placed around every single one of our fellow ants. Until government wises up and inherit these basic fundamental ideas as the only way to do “business”. We need to individually spend our living days loving and giving each other whatever it is they need and as much of it as they need. Loving each other is the answer to question of what we are supposed to be doing here on this earth.