This is such a busy time for everyone. Spring sports are starting up, people starting to take some vacations or starting to plan vacations. This time before schools ends always seems to go by so fast. But…. There is always one time that I just wish would slow down just a bit and it is this week. There are so many stories out there that people are writing and books that are being made by the thousands. However, there is only one story that will always touch me in a way that make be break down and really make me think that I am not worthy. I know this is long but please take a few minutes to read through it.
The story is the same and it is told pretty much the same every year. Here is my version:
There was a man who was born just like any other man. There was one exception. He was already told the path for his life but he still had to live it… as a mortal man. This man, well, boy … went through his early life just wanting to be a boy. He wanted to explore and try new things, like any other person at his age. He saw where his parents were going and wanted to know more. He went to seek out those places and people there were even taken back by the fact that a boy wanted to be more than what he was. This boy had been told that he was special and had a purpose. Are we not all raised the same way? Did you Mom or Dad tell you that you were special? But somehow he started to believe it as well at a young age. The written story seems to stop at that point. But why? Was it because no one documented his life? Was it because he disappeared for a while? Did people lose interest? Did people lose hope? I think it was because the story was meant to be one of the best stories about what some people believe to be about a perfect person and that time was not perfect. I do have a belief that there may have been stories of that boy becoming a man and those stories were not perfect. There have been movies that have shared the same thoughts. I am using a few of those and expanding just a bit. I believe that during that time were not the greatest of times for that boy. He was going through changes like we all did. I think that he was not perfect. I am sure he got mad at his parents, I am sure that he rebelled like we all did at one point. I have told stories of my past and I would not want to re-live that time at all. I put those stories out there not to gain sympathy but to get them out of my mind and move on. I am sure that those were the same thoughts of the writers of that time. This boy went through many trials and hard times but the people of that time may have documented them but they were never made public because of the fact that this was supposed to be the story of the greatest man who ever lived. Why would you want to tell stories of how he was weak and troubled? That does not help with building a great character story. What does help is that this boy becomes a man and is still strong in character and does not waiver. So why give out facts that man paint a different picture of someone who may have had hard choices and may not have made the right path. I am sure that most of us wish there were times now that we look back that we could have rewritten that small part of the story but it is not possible. Also, it seems as though there was not the same open society that we have today. If there were rumors of anything that was not liked by the rulers, those people were dealt with in a way that silenced any word of what happened. And so the story picks up after that rebellious and adolescent time. Most of us can agree that after we hit our late 20’s and early 30’s that we became more responsible. We all still remember the times when we were younger and had some revelations from when we were younger. Some “aha!” moments. I am sure that is what happened to this man. He remembered his parents telling him stories about who he was and what he was meant to do. I am sure that he had some internal feelings as well that made him realize that it was time to start to be the man that he was meant to become. The story goes on about time of extraordinary events that happen. It is hard for anyone to really believe that these events happened. Most of these events cannot even duplicated to today with modern technology but it is written that this man achieved the impossible. The one thing that is kind of odd about those events is that they are not debated in history. They are debated now by people but not in the history books. This man was also telling stories of events that had not happened but later became true. These note vague events and they were not far into the future. Most of them were just days away. Getting to the end of the story, he would tell the people about events like what you one person would do after he was gone. He told another one on how that person would betray him. He told about events that had a chronological order and after the story was written, it was documents that those events did happen. He even told stories about how he would die and what would happen to him after he died. He told stories about why he was there and what he was meant to fulfill. At that point, that is all those were… just “stories”. No one really believed them because it was just kind of far-fetched that a man could know so much about the future and only be a man. The story ends with more facts that were foretold by this man. He was beaten and tortured and humiliated. He was given several opportunities to have that treatment stop. He was told that he did not have to go through with this. But in his mind, he knew why he must go through this type of pain. It was for each person. His “aha!” moment was that he was meant to fulfill a purpose. He then knew that he was not here to be wealthy, to be popular, or to be a great ruler; but to become a man of the people. There are several of those people living today but none of them have the same mindset that this man had. He knew that in order to be a true “man of the people” that he would have to give up those things that may come his way such as, money, popularity and achieve great leadership. This man took it upon himself to show the world that he was who he had now become. This was one man who said that we all needed help that we all needed hope of a better life, that we all are special. There were a few other specific events that were fulfilled and he knew that after those were completed that it was time. He then just gave himself up, a true “man of the people”. At that point there was darkness and the earth shook. Then the overall story ends. That is actual fact. There may be some debate on how some of the little stories actually happened or if they were exaggerated a bit, even the end of the story about the darkness and the earth shaking.
This is where the story continues on for those who believe and have faith. There are those who do not believe and there are those that refuse to believe. I am the opposite. I refuse to NOT believe. I am sure it had to be how I was raised or what has happened to be in my life but I find it hard to not believe that this is all that we have in our life; what is right in front of us. If that is the case, then this all is very sad. I do not know what I am meant to accomplish in life but I know it was not to sit behind a half of a desk and test software. I am not meant to make a ton of money. I am not meant to be the most popular person. I am not meant to be a ruler. I do not know what I am supposed to do but I do have faith that someone came to this Earth to give me a bit of guidance on HOW I am supposed to live. I have faith that there is more to this life that what I can physically see. I do not put my faith in those other things, money, popularity, or power. All of those things can be taken away so fast that you have nothing left but one thing. That is your faith. I am not trying to preach to anyone here but I am telling you why I believe in that Man who gave me hope that there is more to this world than what we see right in front of us.
There are two songs that I HAVE to listen to continuously every year at this time:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aK1MXQxNlYI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hirUSLS54WU
May the Force of THX Give Your Life More Clarity
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