{"id":3948,"date":"2015-06-18T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T03:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3948"},"modified":"2015-06-19T05:32:34","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T09:32:34","slug":"i-hear-clinging-and-clanging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=3948","title":{"rendered":"I hear clinging and clanging…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dancebell\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Do you ever want to be somebody else?\u00a0 Not someone specifically\u2026 so to say.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 Do you every want YOU\u2026. yourself \u2026. to be doing something\u2026. else?<\/p>\n

Okay\u2026 here is a for instance.\u00a0 Have you ever heard a really cool song\u2026 and at just the craziest moment in the song\u2026 somebody rings a cowbell.\u00a0 And it sounds perfect.\u00a0 Right in the middle of the off-beat, you hear that \u201cclang.\u201d\u00a0 I want to be the person who rings that bell.<\/p>\n

Or.\u00a0 The race car driver who gets to drive really fast, and take it hard into the turns.\u00a0 You spin out\u2026 smoke squealing from your tires\u2026 and suddenly you right yourself.\u00a0 You punch the clutch, take it back up a notch, and speed into the straightaway.\u00a0\u00a0 And the crowd goes crazy as the checkered flag swirls.<\/p>\n

Maybe\u2026. you are a ball boy for the Cleveland Indians, or the Pittsburgh Pirates.\u00a0 On on a crowded Sunday afternoon game, a foul ball dribbles your way.\u00a0 You pick it up\u2026 turn around\u2026 and chuck it into the stands to some little kid with one of those really big Number One Signs on her little hand.<\/p>\n

I think a lot of people want to be doing something that they aren\u2019t currently doing in life.\u00a0 We want to do \u201csome other thing\u201d than whatever THIS is.<\/p>\n

We may think it might be great to have a different job, or live in another location.\u00a0 Or to have a list of amazing things we want to try, and cross them all off that list.\u00a0 These things are all perfectly wonderful.<\/p>\n

But perhaps\u2026 just maybe\u2026. what we really want to do isn\u2019t halfway across the world.\u00a0 Nope.\u00a0 I think it is probably right inside of each one of us.<\/p>\n

Our true meaning in life.<\/p>\n

We begin by developing purpose and intentions for our own lives..\u00a0\u00a0 For us to live complete, plentiful lives\u2026 in this crazy and complex world\u2026 is not always easy.\u00a0 Finding what is truly in our hearts helps us figure our way through all of this.\u00a0 What is in our very core.<\/p>\n

I suspect it is vitally important to give our lives some sort of clear direction.\u00a0 And we do this by exploring what means the most to us.
\nBy developing a life purpose and life intentions.<\/p>\n

The next part.\u00a0 We have to choose to live our life intentions.\u00a0 We do the next right thing.\u00a0 We follow our purpose to the best of your ability every day.<\/p>\n

It all sounds so very simple.\u00a0 Yet.\u00a0 For me, it is quite difficult. If I could only figure mine out.<\/p>\n

I see people who are so great at this.\u00a0 They\u2026 each day\u2026 change themselves from the inside out.\u00a0 And it is constructive.\u00a0 It sort of sends out inspiration and healing\u2026 to anyone around them.\u00a0\u00a0 Like ripples on water.\u00a0 Or\u2026 like the clang of a bell\u2026 at just the right moment in a song.<\/p>\n

It is beautiful.<\/p>\n

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Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Joseph Campbell<\/strong><\/em>
\n\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person’s life at a given moment.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Viktor E. Frankl<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do you ever want to be somebody else?\u00a0 Not someone specifically\u2026 so to say.\u00a0 But.\u00a0 Do you every want YOU\u2026. yourself \u2026. to be doing something\u2026. else? Okay\u2026 here is a for instance.\u00a0 Have you ever heard a really cool song\u2026 and at just the craziest moment in the song\u2026 somebody rings a cowbell.\u00a0 And […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3948"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3958,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3948\/revisions\/3958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}