Stuart’s Philosophies

I think we thrive on certainty. The average human being requires a direction, and the direction itself needs some certainty. Without that certainty, there’s no real direction. There’s distraction. I remember times when I was just paying attention to things in my life rather than my life itself, and while I got into that automatic behavior, it was difficult to continue after some time because somewhere along the way, I had to stop and ask myself the question: why in the world am I doing this for?

I look back and discover that if I had started to do this right from the start, I would have accomplished two things at least. First, I would have more illumination. Second, I would have spent less time going around in circles and really heading toward the direction I should have been going instead.

Life’s lessons are a really interesting thing. Because, if you are deliberately looking, you won’t find it. But when you least expect it, BANG, it slaps you in the face (occasionally, forehead), and you really wake up… only if you are aware of what needs to be done. This is what some people call experience. Which means… you can be 20 years old with 15 years of experience, and you could be 55 years old with only 2. It really depends on when you started to take stock of what you had been doing and where you ought to be going.

Every ship that sets sail requires a rudder. Setting sail toward that direction requires a skipper, and if the skipper doesn’t know how to handle the ship, no matter what direction is set, no matter the fact that there is a rudder, the ship will never sail to the harbor of choice. Even if the skipper sets sail in the wrong direction, at least with a good level of awareness, he can correct his direction for a proper voyage.