Waiting for the Apple to Fall

Life in All Its Colors

If you want to make a ripple, touch the water.

Some people are impatient.  They do not wait for things to happen to them – they make things happen.  They take chances.  They conquer their inner demons, prepare, not leave things to chance, leap.  They cannot be accused of being a victim (or a beneficiary) of circumstance.

Some people sit.  They get sedated by their current life situation, woken up every now and then by upsets.  And as soon as things settle, they return to their semi-catatonic states, letting life pass them by, not knowing when it was when all life was sucked out of them.  They are those who, day in and day out, wonder why things are not happening to them, not knowing that they only need to push the button of life, participate, give, take chances.

That every reaction would need an action.

That the lotto ticket needs to be bought to be won.

That work will not come looking for you.

That you have got to be out there to be found.

Which are you?

I do not know when I decided that I would like to be the one who will make things happen.  At some point, somehow, I realized that when I sow, I would reap, and that I would love the surprises that would come my way.  That with the one million and one things I took chances on, certainly a percentage would pay off.  Or maybe because I was just really impatient and cannot stand sitting around waiting.

So I touch the water and try to make ripples.

(I even reach out and touch my husband’s waters and make ripples for him when he’s not looking – most of the time he does not mind – whew! – or my daughter’s too, but she is too young to complain)

There were upsets, sure.  I did not get what I wanted (or expected) some of the time, sure.  But the rewards of just flinging your all to the universe and seeing the ripples fan out and then ultimately come back to you (but how?), magnified a hundred times (or more), is exhilarating.

It is kind of karma but not, or an abundant faith in the greater things to come, which is roused by doing something.

Or maybe because a favorite song from Wicked (and interpreted in Glee) is just playing in my head:

Something has changed within me
Something is not the same
I’m through with playing by the rules
Of someone else’s game
Too late for second-guessing
Too late to go back to sleep
It’s time to trust my instincts
Close my eyes: and leap!

It’s time to try
Defying gravity
I think I’ll try
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I am defying gravity
And you wont bring me down!

I’m through accepting limits
’cause someone says they’re so
Some things I cannot change
But till I try, I’ll never know!
Too long I’ve been afraid of
Losing love I guess I’ve lost
Well, if that’s love
It comes at much too high a cost!

I’d sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I’m defying gravity
I think I’ll try
Defying gravity
And you wont bring me down!

I’d sooner buy
Defying gravity
Kiss me goodbye
I’m defying gravity
I think I’ll try
Defying gravity
And you won’t bring me down!
bring me down!
ohh ohhh ohhhh!

That song, combined by a shout-out I just read a Facebook, is making my morning: I’m a kind of paranoid in reverse: I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J.D. Salinger

And what was the favorite saying of my MavenSecrets group?  Ready, fire, aim.

Good thoughts.

Be rich,

Issa

Article by Issa. Art by D. Copyright 2010.
Website: www.YouWantToBeRich.com
Email: issa@youwanttoberich.com

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