“I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
Saturday, February 18, 2006
Just eat cake
Do you ever have one of those nights when you wonder who you are? Or who you are becoming? It happens. A realization hit me. What can I become? I'm 24 years old. I've been teaching two years away from America. What's next? Will I live each day for a purpose. Or will it seem like a boring routine? One day, I could be that person that I sometimes see, a man that knows what is important. A man who is content. A man without regrets. A friend named Tim said, "If you want it all, you'll never be happy." I know that. He also said, "Just eat cake and the rest of life is frosting." That's true. I should focus on what's important. But what's the cake? My cake this year could be my relationships with God, with Tan, with family, with friends and my career as a teacher. Frosting might be traveling, playing guitar and other things. These were just some thoughts I had at 2 a.m.
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