“This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is,” Diana Nyad.  I think we get caught up in the story we tell ourselves about what we are supposed to be and how things are supposed to look.  Moreso the latter if I’m honest.  We want to come across that all of our decisions are flawless and that we always did the right thing when the reality is that our life is filled with these moments of ebb and flow and not everything is beautiful.  We empty to become full again, we fail so we can improve, we dream so we can build.  That dream doesn’t need to be anything in particular—it needs to be what works for us.  It needs to be the reflection and the representation of who we are, because as I said yesterday, it is in being who we are that we can do the most good.

There is only one end point in this dream with all of us and that is death—so the path we take during life really is irrelevant.  As long as we fulfill our purpose with resolve and dedication and we are open to learning along the way, I think it’s a very real possibility that we will always get where we are meant to be.  Most of the time it isn’t about what we want, it’s about what we do.  The destination isn’t really the point because no matter what we do in this time on earth we can’t take it with us, the experiences, the memories etc.  But we can leave those around us with memories and lessons on what to do differently—we leave a legacy.  So when we embark toward a particular goal, remember that the ups and downs, the twists and turns are all for a reason.  They all mean something.  IT doesn’t matter what it looks like—as long as we find what is ours.