I Can't Wait To Have Patience!!!

My brother Joey and I have been talking alot about a book he is reading- The Silent Planet. He made a good point about when the character in the story goes to another planet and eats a fruit that is absolutely delicious. The character, Ransom, tells the alien creature whom he's with that he wishes he could have more and more of this fruit because it's such a new experience. The alien, who is extremely smart, tells Ransom that how he feels is exactly what's wrong with his planet- earth. Anytime a human experiences something delightful, they want to completely gorge themselves with it. In which case, after they've fulfilled themselves, there is no longer anything special with that which they were gorging themselves with. Next, Joey and I began to watch a news reporter state how "sad it is that is hasn't snowed for this superbowl" and that "they wont be able to have a giant snowslide now." Then the another reporter buts in, "But that's not stopping these folks! They have snow machines running 24/7 until the superbowl, hoping to pump out at least 200 tons of snow!"

Back in the day when we didn't have this sort of technology it would be special when it did snow. But now-a-days if we want it to rain and it doesn't we say, "Hell, we'll make it rain!" and so, we proceed get firetrucks, hoses, and begin to pour thousands of gallons of water; and we "make it rain." We've lost all faith in spontaneous order within nature it seems.

I have realized this in my own life. I always want things to be going great...in fact, not just "great", but rather getting "better, and better, and better!" And when things actually start going, God forbid, normal, I think there must be something wrong. In reality nothing at all is wrong, I've just been having such a great time consistently, and I hit a point where it couldn't get any better.

The sayings "Things are so bad it can only go up from here" is completely true. It's also true in the same respect when times are going fantastic, and it can only get worse.

Moral of the Post: Just because you are not having a constant climax of fun doesn't mean somethings wrong. Time is the most amazing thing; you'd be surprised what it can accomplish, even if you are facing the worst of the worst time in your life.