I rarely live the end of my day without some sort of stoic resolution or enlightened epiphany that I can use tomorrow. Much of us live life without motion. I don't mean lack of energy or physical endurance -- rather lack of intellectual motion. Many live in the same routines... wake up, shower, have a cup of coffee and off to work. I'd venture to say, a vast majority of us aren't looking for these intellectual snippets to make today a little bit wiser than yesterday.
If you close your eyes and think about all of those you would consider great... perhaps Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa, John F. Kennedy, Winston Churchill, Socrates, and the list could go on and on. I often ask myself "What allows these greats to stand out among the billions (maybe even trillions) of nameless people who have walked this planet?" Even those who have risen to enormous amounts of money and fame, seem to be forgotten in a few weeks at best.
Yet in literary works -- academic papers, books, and articles, these greats live time and time again. Their lives, words, and actions truly live beyond the spectrum of time. These greats transcend time because they led a life in the aisles of afterthoughts. They possessed a knowledge and understanding for reality far beyond average comprehension. These people didn't live a life of routine; they consistently pushed the boundaries of human imagination... some even died for their convictions.
Tonight, I will close my eyes in a relaxed slumber and rise tomorrow a captor of reflection.
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill
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