CARPE MY DIEM
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Chasing an opportunity is much like a golfer hitting one off the hosel.
We never find where it went – but the search makes for a breathtaking journey.
When we go wandering in wildernesses, inside a book or someone’s head – there is no way to predict what adventures will appear.
A Pepsi generation kid, I’ve been through my decades of learning everything wrong with the world – wrong with humanity, with relationships, with public policy and private pain.
Fortunately, I’ve not seen it all.
Still, I’ve learned that life is a short visit to life’s tasting menu.
We too often learn too late what we should have known or done too long ago.
In purpose of life vs. purpose in life – do justify our purpose beyond sitting atop a food chain. Sure, to produce more humans, to retain our lofty position of superiority, but that is no guarantee our species will survive the next billion years. Other species may evolve to overtake us, so we need to be vigilant in defending our omnipotence. And our benevolence. And our value.
Those of a spiritual bent may wax on about serving some higher power.
For those of us rooted in more straightforward reality, facts, logic and reason – we cannot see much beyond Darwin’s concepts: the fittest survive best, the strongest produce the strongest offspring, and those who win the lottery live happily ever after.
But nobody, I’ve been reminded lately, lives ever after.
Sometimes life takes us on strange journeys, adventure shows up when least expected, and opportunity shows up all the time – but we need to be awake, available, and accepting to seize those opportunities.