The Building Road Less Traveled

A great joy in life, one filled with anticipation and purpose is to be actively involved with building the future.  So often we are dissatisfied with the present and haunted by the past that we handicap ourselves from doing anything about the future.  However, one sure way to live successfully with the past and present is to spend most of your time building the future.  Building a better planet can be planting trees, building a better community can be building something for the public, (sculpture comes to mind), building a better group of friends means to adopt their best qualities and thank them for modeling it so successfully to you that you want to adopt the quality and building a better you means doing all the above.  But it doesn’t have to stop there, you can begin to work to better the lives of people that you will never know by making your workplace the place you would want if you took the job after you.  Or making your neighborhood the neighborhood you wish was there when you moved there, making your town the town you wish you had moved too so that when others move there it is their perfect town.  It is the old hiking adage, “leave it better than you found it” being the way you live your life.  The world seems only to model, uphold, and video those that seek to tear down so if you are willing to take the road less traveled, first understand, it is less traveled.  One adage I tell my children all the time, “Some people build the world, some people live in it.  We are going to be the ones that build.”