You might have noticed that I’ve been posting a story here every day. Maybe you didn’t.
But if you did, and you are tired of it, I’m sorry.
But I must persist. I was encouraged at the end of last year to do something that I’d wanted to do but never had. And that was writing and posting something every day.
What will happen if I give up posting every day? I don’t know.
There’s an answer, but I don’t know what it is.
What will happen if I keep posting every day? I don’t know.
I’d much rather find the answer to posting daily than the answer waiting for me if I give up.
To be clear, I’ll post about almost anything: the boring, the exciting, the mundane, the dumb, and the beautiful things of life. No matter if anybody sees it, likes it, or hates it. I mean, I posted about furniture yesterday.
My objective is to be funny. Some of these stories are exaggerated. I believe it’s called artistic license. Let’s take the story about taking down the Christmas decor and building a shelf. That story was licensed, artistically speaking.
There were elements of truth, but there were exaggerated elements as well.
Honestly, it’s not that hard to put a board on a wall. But if I had to build a deck, whew. That story would fill up a novel because it would take me so long to construct the crazy thing.
I used to work with a man who had been a builder for 30+ years, and some of the things I described were elements taken from working with him. But applying them to my situation makes it sound like I’m a total idiot. And I’m okay with that as long as people get a good laugh.
The truth is, I am much more adept at destruction. I’m a destruction worker.
The truth is, putting something together is way harder than tearing something apart.
If you ever see someone building a relationship, a business, a family, or a life, the truth is that it isn’t going easy for them. They’re working hard. They’re putting in tons of effort.
If you see someone tearing apart a relationship, a business, a family, or a life, the truth is that they’re trying to take a piece of someone else’s success and hope that it makes them feel better somehow.
But what will happen is what little they’ve gotten from tearing something apart will get even smaller and crumble to dust in their hands because they never learned to build and work hard at something, except being critical and tearing people down. To them, I say, what goes around, comes around.
I don’t want to give up. I want to succeed.
I don’t want to destroy. I want to build or rebuild if necessary.
I don’t want to look at only the bad. I want to notice the good as well.
I want to do the best I can and be beneficial to others while I’m doing it.
Whatever you are doing to be beneficial, keep doing it. Be consistently persistent.
to hard-working and persistent life-builders,
– Caleb
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