And So It All Goes On
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 by Mark | Posted in Unconventional Thinking | CommentsThere is pain and when you face it down – it fights back, tries to make a stand and then recedes. It is part of life and life stands still for nothing. It all goes on. 
There is failure and with it mental and intellectual anguish and loss. But there is also gain if you choose to see it, leverage it and gain from the experience. The choice is yours. Regardless of your stance, your defiance, your Resistance, nothing stops the wave.
Einstein was wrong. It’s not relative. It matters not how fast you move. You cannot speed ahead of the curve. Not the curve of life. Respond as you will to whatever strikes you: it all goes on.
All you can do is roll with the punches and ride the crest of the victories. This is what the great ones know. It is what makes them different. It is what makes them great.
Facing a Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt placed a damn-it-all cigarette holder in his mouth and smiled a brave smile for a nation that wanted to put the brakes on life. Winston Churchill took to the streets of London and shook a thunderous finger at the Nazis: they could rain down a zillion bombs. The British people weren’t going to wish for a path backwards to a kinder, gentler day. Winston knew you cannot go back. You can only prevail.
It all goes on.
We experience the cycles and wonder why they have to exist. Careers begin with a joy that accompanies the new, the fresh, the unexplored and we are ecstatic. And then time takes it toll. People take their toll. Change takes its toll. If you allow it to, the exuberance morphs into a job and then in many cases into a trap. We want to go back to the champagne days but they are in the past and try as we might, we can’t live there. We are permanently barred. Yearn all you want. It is just a deception you play on yourself. You have to create a new yesterday, today.
It all goes on.
There is war and peace and discovery and scandal and thrill and disappointment and Grammy winners and American Idol and one-hit wonders and Nobel Laureates and Beatles and John Kennedys and Third Reichs and Camelots and we celebrate and disdain them. And then they roll into the next. Into the new frontier that itself will soon be memorabilia.
It all goes on.
We wonder why. But it is not for us to know. We are simply left with the fact that what is, is. And what is changes. And what changes causes exhilaration and grief.
The only choice is to keep looking back and question why or to look ahead and ask how. How can I affect change? How can I grow personally? How can I see what is now invisible to me?
How can I gain an entire new perspective only to know that I will need to grow out of that too and into another?
It all goes on.
Mark Stevens
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