Stay there in thy closet, and toil, until the rest are agreed what to do about it. Your sickness, they say, and your puny habit, require that thou do this or avoid that, but know that thy life is a flitting state, a tent for a night, and do thou, sick or well, finish that stint. Thou art sick, but shalt not be worse, and the universe, which holds thee dear, shall be the better. We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn a hundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life. We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! -- it seems to say, -- there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power. |
Experience from Essays: Second Series (1844)
This sounds very much like the Moody Blues speaking on their album with the tune ‘Stairway to Heaven’ IIRC :-))
May your life be the success you wish it to be..no matter what path you may take. Goals are there for you to grasp and conquer. Then you say: ‘I did THAT. I made THAT!.” knowing that you have achieved something you had never dreamed of doing”
The old movie with Mickey Rooney who starred in a film about the life of Thomas Edison is such a movie about achievement. The film is one to make a lasting impression on a young mind.
Carry on, ‘with a smile in your heart’.