Fight the Natural Cycle of Decay!
Recently, I’ve been quite intrigued at how much maintenance is required to keep our lives under control… relationships from growing distant… and everything working smoothly as it should. It doesn’t take long before the grass is overgrown, the paint needs some touching up and we’ve gained a few extra pounds without much notice. Large buildings (although quite small in the scheme of things) have entire maintenance staff just to keep things running smoothly day to day and year to year; without them the entire building would slowly but steadly become useless and even uninhabitable within a few short years. As soon as something new comes flying off the assembly line (including us) it’s working its way toward disrepair and being obsolete within a few short years as well. Things breakdown, fall out of alignment and grow to be no longer needed, that’s the natural cycle of things. So with this in mind… to be successful and really alive we need to fight this cycle of decay. We need to work hard to shore up things in our life that aren’t quite right… because the natural slippery slope of time will take us to standards that we should NOT be willing to accept. We need to keep our minds strong with positive thoughts, with new ideas and novel books that we’ve been meaning to get to. We need to organize our lives and be better friends while perhaps working for the paycheck a bit less and getting just a bit more sleep, play and relaxation. In short, we need to fix the things that need fixing and keep up the maintenance on things that matter.
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