We are in hell right now,
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.
You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That’s, that’s part of life.
But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half step too late or too early
you don’t quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don’t quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in every break of the game
every minute, every second.
when we add up all those inches
that’s going to make the fucking difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.
I’ll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.
A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together
to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into
complaints about stress in work and life.
his guests coffee, the professor went to the kitchen and
returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups –
porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking, some expensive,
some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the professor
said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking expensive cups have been
taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.While it is normal
for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your
problems and stress.
Be assured that the cup itself adds no quality to the coffee. In most
cases it is just more expensive and in some cases even hides what we
drink. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you
consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing each
other’s cups.
Now consider this: Life is the coffee; the jobs, money and position
in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life,
and the type of cup we have does not define, nor change the quality of
life we live.
Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the
coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups! The happiest people don’t have
the best of everything. They just make the best of everything. Live
simply. Love generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.
