"Why do we fall, sir?" The million-dollar question asked by Michael Cain in the film, Batman Begins, has always stuck with me. Failure is something in our nature as human beings. We fail all the time and it is our failures that magnify our success'. The best thing we can do we when we fail is to realize our failures. So many time, people will just find excuses to make or find someone to blame it on. Now with all these failures, there is room for triumph. In my past few weeks I have fallen. I think to myself, "Casey, there is something wrong in life. We need to step back and get a fresh take." So I went to SubWay. I'm kidding, but seriously, I needed to refresh my thoughts and think in basic, bigger picture terms. I was falling, but after I fell I just stayed on the ground. I have now realized, it is the way of man, to get up off the ground and rise again like the sun. The fall I have been going through right now will eventually be a thing of the past and I will be a better man for enduring the storm, instead of running and hiding. I will be a stronger man because I got up off the ground instead of being fossilized into the ground. I know this post is a little more ethos and not as much logos right now, but when I think about a post for my life at ONU or life in general, these were my thoughts this weekend following my surgery. Sitting there all day on the couch really forces you to think about things deeper than the surface of the scars and stitches. I drove myself crazy thinking about the pain and how I would ever be able to do what I could do before, ever again. Then I took that step back and realized that this is a fall. This is a test of my will and that is one test I never plan of failing. Will power can seem empty and bleak at some time in life for all of us, but it is that little voice in the back of my mind saying "you can't afford to lose. There is gonna be something worth fighting for". The first time I blogged I didn't really have the confidence to put these deeper thoughts on the blog, but the more I have blogged and read blogs, I have found the niche for it and how blogging can help me get things off my chest and into the light (of your screen) haha! So as I fight back through recovery, I remember that the cause of our falls may be different, but the reason we fall is to pick ourselves back up.
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
Why do we fall?
"Why do we fall, sir?" The million-dollar question asked by Michael Cain in the film, Batman Begins, has always stuck with me. Failure is something in our nature as human beings. We fail all the time and it is our failures that magnify our success'. The best thing we can do we when we fail is to realize our failures. So many time, people will just find excuses to make or find someone to blame it on. Now with all these failures, there is room for triumph. In my past few weeks I have fallen. I think to myself, "Casey, there is something wrong in life. We need to step back and get a fresh take." So I went to SubWay. I'm kidding, but seriously, I needed to refresh my thoughts and think in basic, bigger picture terms. I was falling, but after I fell I just stayed on the ground. I have now realized, it is the way of man, to get up off the ground and rise again like the sun. The fall I have been going through right now will eventually be a thing of the past and I will be a better man for enduring the storm, instead of running and hiding. I will be a stronger man because I got up off the ground instead of being fossilized into the ground. I know this post is a little more ethos and not as much logos right now, but when I think about a post for my life at ONU or life in general, these were my thoughts this weekend following my surgery. Sitting there all day on the couch really forces you to think about things deeper than the surface of the scars and stitches. I drove myself crazy thinking about the pain and how I would ever be able to do what I could do before, ever again. Then I took that step back and realized that this is a fall. This is a test of my will and that is one test I never plan of failing. Will power can seem empty and bleak at some time in life for all of us, but it is that little voice in the back of my mind saying "you can't afford to lose. There is gonna be something worth fighting for". The first time I blogged I didn't really have the confidence to put these deeper thoughts on the blog, but the more I have blogged and read blogs, I have found the niche for it and how blogging can help me get things off my chest and into the light (of your screen) haha! So as I fight back through recovery, I remember that the cause of our falls may be different, but the reason we fall is to pick ourselves back up.
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Casey,
ReplyDeleteThis is a great post. As college students we are subject to a lot of negativity and by you posting this, it could give someone else the strength to get back up. I'm glad you are doing better. Recovery isn't an easy process but with a positive attitude you'll heal a little faster.