Losing Ground

I've heard it said that when it comes to life that if you're not progressing that you're regressing. I guess when we consider things like memory, physical fitness, developed skills like musicianship for example, and other things that if we're not constantly seeking improvement and practicing that those skills do get rustier and rustier until the day when they've just about abandoned us completely. I'm bringing this up really for just one reason, and that's to simply illustrate my subject for this blog post; that of the importance of keeping oneself dedicated to performing the small and simple daily things that, for some reason beyond me, seem to contribute to the day in a larger than life proportion. This week has been especially taxing for me as I've worked more hours this week not only in school but also in my job at the Utah Food Bank.

Trying to keep even just these two important parts of my life balanced is, in and of itself, a miracle to be had indeed. Those things on top of family life, my emotional and mental sanity from so much work, trying to fulfill religious commitments, and a social life to top it all off just make things seem a little impossible at times. It's during days and weeks and months like this where I definitely start to slip in the small and simple things that I know I should be doing but just for one reason or another don't actually do. I've come to notice that when I let this foundation slip away from me, due to negligence on my part, that things almost instantaneously begin to crumble away as well. The next thing I know, I'm sitting in a dark corner sucking my thumb while in the fetal position and wishing that everything would just go away for a bit.... OK, that's not really how it all goes down but you get the idea.

I think that as an essential part of all of our journeys through life that we need not only to develop a foundation, some sort of uplifting and strengthening routine through which we can renew ourselves spiritually and mentally and physically, and learn how to and spend the effort and time maintaining it that we will find greater happiness and success in life. My goal is to help others, primarily through providing hunger relief and also through the ability to become educated and trained so that not just "symptoms" are treated but so that the underlying problem, poverty in general, can be overcome. I can't even begin to imagine how I'm going to accomplish all of that or how to get there in the first place, hence the reason for this blog, but how much more lost would I be every day if I had to start from ground-0 again because I didn't have a foundation? The sheer thought of it is almost too much for me to handle so I'm not going to endeavor to give you a mental image.

Foundation, foundation, foundation. If it's not getting better, it's getting worse.