why?

"Why push, why change, why grow, why dream? Questions you don't have to ask yourself when you never say its good enough, when you never say it can't be done, when you never say never."

My latest inspiration for a blog comes from a superbowl commericial. lol. How improbable is that? It wasn't the funniest commercial around but it takes the award as the most down to earth and realistic in my opinion.

I really like this quote a lot. The picture that goes along with it is great too. There is this guy who is struggling to push a boulder up a hill and he's kinda having a hard time but you can tell he's making progress and then it zooms out and it shows the hill is actually a mountain made up of more boulders that he's put there. Of course with me and my analytical mind I thought it symbolized a lot.

When times get tough and we think we have had enough do we push back? Do we change how we think? Do we stop growing? Do we end up saying this is good enough, or do we want something more? Do we try and do something that everyone has said can't be done? I think there is only one way to make progress in this world and that is by pushing back. It's by growing and never thinking that what you have is good enough.

So I guess each one of us have our own mountains to climb in our lives. Not just so that we can climb them, but so that we can conquer them. The only way to move forward is to climb our mountains, it is what progress is all about. Our mountains define who we are in life, they give us the strength to climb the next mountain that is a little bit bigger and a little bit steeper. So that we can know that we have accomplished something ourselves, from our own will and our own determination. So that we can say that we did something, and that we made something happen. So that we can say "it can be done."

Only after we conquer our mountains can we really answer the questions "why push, why change, why grow, why dream?" Maybe it is no coincedence that the only people that truly figure out things in life are the people that ask why. I think too many times we take for granted everything that we have and when things are given to us we forget to figure out why, then we forget to know what it's like to work for the things that we have. Then we forget about the past and why it has made us who we are. Then we just plain forget about everything and we become nothing.