As a mediocre web developer I often find myself talking about start ups or the absurd amounts of money some of these start up people make. I remember when the internet was just getting started hearing about people buying domain names. I remember getting my first domain...and wine.com was wide open. I thought to myself...nah...that is too broad. That wouldn't be right. I briefly thought, hey, if you can get a domain like that, what about cars.com? Or houses.com? Nah, that wouldn't be right either because I don't have any businesses associated with either of those names or any others...
FAIL
About this time when I was thinking on all of this, I was working as a glorified delivery boy for a winery (fun job but paid low). One day it was pouring down rain. It was what they called a once in 500 year rain storm. I didn't have a jacket so I took a garbage bag and punched holes in it to make a make shift poncho So I stopped for my delivery and got out, grabbed my cargo, covered it will plastic wrap and started to roll my dolly towards a restaurant. I looked up there was another delivery guy...drenched to the bone, with a similar make shift rain coat. He looked at me, I looked at him...he smiled. "Somebody's got to do it."
"Somebody's got to do it."
In life, there are many what ifs and perhaps a tendency to wish you were somewhere else. My being a complete idiot and not buying up massive domains when they were wide open, not jumping on starting various internet businesses that fiends of mine told me to jump on when the internet was just getting going caused me to go down a different life path that maybe sometimes is a lot less glamorous than other people's lives. But at the same time the path I've gone down has made me who I am. There is a lot about me and my circumstances I don't like. But at the same time those circumstances have caused me to be shaped a certain way, my flaws cause me to act in others...all coming together to make the package that is me. In my life I've met certain people, married someone wonderful, have learned some hard lessons, and have grown a little (at least in theory) wiser. If I would have gone down the golden paved streets lined with statupdotcom gold I would not be who I am today. God has given me free will to make good choices and bad. But I believe He is using those choices and who I am, who you are, to weave a tapestry of existence that in the end is wonderful. Each thread is necessary. Each life path means something and cannot be replaced else the tapestry unravels.
Your life, my life, is necessary and valuable. Not everyone of us is meant to play the rock stars, the face men and women, the money/party types. But that doesn't mean your life isn't as valuable in the over all plan as theirs are. And we each have our role to play. Your part in this life is best played by you and no one else. Let other's play the roles they have been given, and don't despair. Comparing life threads isn't meant for you. There are weaves that only your thread can make. And there are untold things about each thread that cannot always be seen. Your life might be better than the more glamours threads without you even knowing it. So don't despair at your life when you are tempted to compare it with others or look to past mistakes. It was all meant to be, the good, the bad and the ugly (or allowed to be might be more accurate). Even if you are near rock bottom you won't stay there forever. Remember this about your life and take pride in it. This is your role in creation. Your life is necessary. You are the best suited to play the role you have been given. Someone has to be you, and no one can do it better than you.
"Somebody's got to do it."
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