I have been thinking. Which for some people is a trial - but for some a journey. Life is a journey. So I had better be thinking about it as I go along.
I was out on a run last week. My primary thought was - everything is about math. The equation of life is difficult, complex, rife with variables, and in the end it all equals what we put into it.
I am a firm believer that you have control over your life. You can do what you want. You can be a dreamer, atheist, or a believer. You can make your bed every day - go to work every day. You can choose your profession and you can choose your mate. You can choose to have children, and you can choose to love. All of these things I have mentioned are just variables in the equation.
If you want to adjust the equation - you can do that. You can take things out and you can put things in. Do you want to be out of debt? Then quit spending your money on things that don't matter. You want to be skinny? Then quit using the butter, flour, and sugar as your main food groups. You want to be smarter? Go and learn something. You want to be a rock star? Learn to sing and dance. Or at least learn how to dance. Singing and dancing sometimes don't work well together.
It is all about math and how you work the equation. If you want something different then you need to adjust what you are putting into the equation. You want to run faster. Get skinnier. You want to be a guitarist? Do that. Go get the guitar and you practice till your finger bleed and you can play well. Do you want to limit yourself by what you have been given? Sure that is is the easy path. That is the path of the victim. Someone who blames others because of something they don't have or something they were not ready to make the sacrifice to get. Life all boils down to math.
I was thinking about this on my run. I was thinking about my own personal math equation. What balances my life and gives it meaning? I don't think I can answer that without revealing my own personal equation. But I can tell you some of the elements of the equation. Mine begins with my family, branches out into others, and resonates with a belief in Higher Powers beyond me.
My actions and my goals feed my equation. If I want to run faster - I need to quit eating fruit snacks and Dr. Pepper. If I want to get a better job then I need to make myself attractive enough that someone else wants what I am selling. Me. If I want a better marriage I need to focus more on my wife and less on me and more on my son. If I want to be a better neighbor I need to help those that I am around and become a better neighbor.
Can you see how the equation gets more complicated the more you drill into it? Can you see the intricate numerals and wild card integers that float and move each day? That is the math of life. If you want something different add or subtract what you want. I have found that the way one lives is in direct correlation to how they formulate their equation. If you want to have all the money in the world - then start collecting what The Almighty uses as pavement. Make your equation matter. Make it something that others want to take parts of your equation and mirror it in theirs.
Happiness is a math equation that gives your life purpose. Make the math count. Make your life count. Run your race as fast as you can - or as consistently as you plan. I want to make mine count. I want the product of my life to be what I have put into it. The product of my product.
FMR
