To Maintain

That is the task of all tasks... Maybe the only...

It is so easy to get something started to then leave not much further down the line, or much, or maybe your just standing in the thick of it keeping yourself still enough so as to not be seen by your "unfinished business".

My girlfriend possesses a quote ingrained onto her skin on her right rib-cage. 

(and by that i just mean a tattoo)

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

How can anything truly be completed when it can always be better?

So i repeat my title and elaborate.

To maintain, that is all one can truly do, maintain an idea until you begin to physically manifest that into existence, further implementing the need for its maintenance in order for it to come to fruition.

Be careful not to misunderstand my use of fruition.

A plan can come to a point where it is realized by the individual, or individuals, but just because that is so does not mean that you can't go beyond it. 

I am not claiming that you should, i am merely pointing out the fact that there is a point where you feel that your creation has "for you" become actualized, thereby giving you the choice to abandon it, leaving it open for someone else to come pick up and fulfill there idea using your creation as a tool, thereby maintaining your creation while fulfilling there own.

Now that's a sweet ass "win win situation" 

Although this is not always the case as a large portion of us have, to say the least.. 

"Attachment issues"

Know that this is not stealing, for how can you steal something that never belonged to anyone?

I can put my name on this post, but when i die, then who does this return to?

I don't even truly posses my own name, i just imagine i do, using it as a tool to help serve.

That is all.

All is shared.. And when that is recognized, we begin to work harmoniously for the benefit of all above ourselves. 

We all have a job to do, a role to play, so play it with the upmost joy.

If what you find yourself maintaining does not bring you just that, then for heavens sake! 

What on earth are you doing?!

There is certainly someone out there who would find great jubilation in doing the work that you simply tolerate, so why are YOU the one doing it? 

If anything, your new work should be to find someone who can replace you!

Would that be better? 

Would that bring you even the most minuscule amount of joy then what your currently experiencing? If so, DO IT!

If the work you do is just a means to an end, your going to come to an abrupt chomp on the ass when you realize, if ever, that there is no end to the work your doing.

The only possibility of an end is through death, and seeing as reincarnation is a commonly accruing idea that if true, you will still have to come back and work!

What kind of cruel mother lover would make me work like this over and over and over for eternity never hitting a final conclusion?

Well actually an extremely compassionate one if the work you have chosen brings you bliss.

“Come on lets be realistic achieving something that you actually want in life, phh! Yeah right.”

If it was truly something you wanted, then the attempt of trying to get it would be way more satisfying then actually having something you don’t want!

Many may argue with me on that one, after all i do not know how you feel about things

nor what your going through, i can only grasp my own view.

What i do know is how i feel, and that is that i would rather fail at what i don’t want than deal with something i cant stand!

I'm going to quote Jim Carrey here:

“You can fail at something you don’t want, so you might as well take chance on something you love!”

Love this incarnation of a man! :)

"Dylan, its not as easy for everyone as it may be for you, some of us are responsible for our family's"

Your right i have not idea what it's like to have to have to provide for others in such a way,

but the way i see it, is that you are not only responsible for other physically (financially) wellbeing

you are also responsible for them, and yourself, emotionally.

Now if the work your doing is causing you emotional distress it will without question carry onto your family.

I'm just guessing here but surly, the only reason i can think of for doing anything for your family is to make them happy, so how can that be possible if you are not happy yourself?

Putting it to extremes but if you had to choose?

Nothing but happiness, or, Everything but happiness?

So what the flippidy do of a do da day are you doing with your day?

For real though?

As someone who has been infamous for being lazy in the past to now being at a point where i cannot handle going a day without creating something, i feel i can say that we've been looking at it all wrong.

I was actually corrected by a wonderful man very recently, Brett Zweiman saying:

"The work is the gift!"  

The completion of everything would surly drive us all mad, 

It's as if god made this game of "IT NEEDS WORK" 

in order to free himself of perfection, because honestly what fun is perfection?

I am so grateful for this realization! 

It is a shift that makes you want to contribute to humanity rather than withhold yourself from it,

for what are you without your fellow beings?

So work, i wish to place another quote here but i do not know who said it first, nor do i remember it word for word so i will ad- lib it a little.

"You can trust the work is well chosen, when it is more fun than having fun."

.... My friends,

If you were to set yourself any goal right now, that would be the superlative.

:D