Never Too Late
23 Feb 2012 7 Comments
in Daily Inspiration, Inspiration: Kenton Sefcik, Photography by Frederick Claflin, VIDEOS Tags: happiness, inspiration, kenton Sefcik, life, life challenge, lifestyle, motivation, personal development, photography, quotes, success, wisdom
Photo of Frederick Claflin
By Kenton Sefcik
In the boxing world, the ‘given’ age that a boxer will retire is 35 years of age.
A potential hockey player should be drafted by his or her 18th birthday – and now headhunters are going after them even younger.
In the business world, if you are too old you may be expunged for the younger crowd.
Universities have a median age of 24-year-old students.
However, it’s never too late! It’s never too late to live the dreams kept deep inside one’s heart.
There are many instances where dreams must be put on hold or worked at more slowly than a person wants. Perhaps one is a single-mother or single-father. Perhaps, with the downturn of the economy, the finances aren’t there to support the dreams. Perhaps the life-situation of the current moment doesn’t serve the dreams and goals of the future – yet.
On the other hand, there are many things that one may pursue outside of the above-mentioned establishments if one so desires: fitness, writing, small businesses, etc.
But regardless if one is committed to break into a field at a later time where there is currently a predetermined age or one wants to branch out into uncharted territory, we are continually seeing people from all walks of life challenge the status quo.
As a martial artist for over 17 years, this video really finds a spot in my heart. Even if you aren’t a fan of the martial arts, I’m sure the story will inspire you to believe: it’s never too late!
PS: A big thank you to all the readers who commented on my last post. Due to the popularity of the last post, I have been asked by amsdaily.net to write a monthly article. I couldn’t have done it without your support and I hope to continue to inspire you!
Editor’s Note: Kenton Sefcik is a father, husband, Registered Acupuncturist, published author and martial artist. You can read more of his ramblings at AMSDaily and at Dark Wing Chun.
Wednesdays with Buena: Emptiness
22 Feb 2012 15 Comments
in Daily Inspiration, Photography by Frederick Claflin, Wednesdays with Buena Tags: dreams, inspiration
Photo of Frederick Claflin
Ooops! Our last Wednesday this February! Oh- so short are the days!
But in our Feb “LOVE” mantra, we can lengthen each day of our life when we choose to fill it with love.
I hope you didn’t miss on our previous posts as we spell out“love”. These had been our weekly challenges:
Vows, and I am now going to close this acronym by mythoughts about what love is.
Emptiness. Here is the greatest definition of love, from the Book of Corinthians Chapter 13:
And as I pondered on it, love is so hard to carry out. We may be succeeding at some points, but we’re failing in the others. When I posted about lingering on, probably there were bloggers and readers out there who weren’t with me! Why linger, why stay, why keep on? For sometimes, staying in love is just not that easy, and I am meaning at love in its deepest ways. That’s why, I tried to look at love, and sometimes, when it’s unattainable in its purest sense- it leaves emptiness, an emptiness within. Love is not easy.
Escape. Oh so many loved that post Out of the Box! (I thank you all!) And though we are caught in varied boxes of life- allowed ourselves to be inside those boxes where we put our heart into, where we found our definitions of love in- we share the same sentiment, the need to get some breather once in a while. And so again I thought about love, and concluded, that maybe one of the best ways to make love easier, and find its way deeper in one’s heart, is when it tells us- escape for a while… In escaping, you will miss it, and will allow you to see its purest meaning, and then until- we all succeed in realizing.
That love never fails… (I will ask you to read, a little slower this time like you are public reading a poetic prose; and for each word, feel what it tells you.)
Endless. For love, indeed, is endless. It may leave you empty, it may lead you to escape, but it stays.. it’s endless. That’s why love, too, must be taken as a vow. It is a lifetime commitment, even eternal. Whatever, wherever, whoever this incredible thing called love touches, he ought not to fail it, if he is to seek after true happiness, real freedom, his fulfillment.. he ought to embrace it, and know fully well what true love is.
And that true love, spoke to me this February, and told me of those three things: “emptiness, escape, endless”… Well, I’d be cheered to know about your story, too. Many things happened this month, and at the end of it all and on the final week of the love month- I invite you to feel love in all its forms, in its every detail, submit to all that it brings, trust it in every way. Perhaps, that’s the best way to experience it in life.
And remember, at the peak or the downiest points of loving, it simply never fails all the time.
Love and always,
Buena
