We need to figure out what we did, what we didn’t do, where we are going, and where we should be.

There was a king of a tropical island. He heard there was a family who lived in a town outside of the city, and they had a blue diamond. The king wanted this blue diamond for himself, and he sent his messenger to get it.

The messenger boarded the ship, and after it set sail, there was a shortage of food. He was an expert fisherman so he caught fish and fed the passengers. After the messenger had fed everyone, they got sick. But he was a doctor, so he was able to cure them.

When the boat reached the shore, the messenger found that food was abundant, but the people had nowhere to live. He was a carpenter, so he built houses for everyone. When he had built the houses, he found that the people didn’t know how to make use of the land. They didn’t know how to plow or to plant. So he taught them.

Finally, the messenger finished with all his good works, and he returned to the king. The king asked him what he had done on his journey. He told the king he had fed the people, saved their lives, built their houses, taught them how to plow and plant.

Then the king asked him about the blue diamond that he had been sent to get. The messenger admitted that he had been so busy he had forgotten about the blue diamond. The king took out his sword and cut off the messenger’s head.

We all come to this world with certain tasks, and we need to find our path in order to carry out those tasks. Acts of sharing get us closer to the path, but they are only part of the picture.

We must perform the actions we came to this world to do; then we will find we can do so much more. We can feed more people, build more houses, teach many more how to plow and plant. It is the actions that we came to do that will increase our power to do more sharing.

A good barometer we can use to make sure we are on our path is to ask ourselves if we are happy. We can ask ourselves if today is better than yesterday. We can be doing our job and helping many but are we on the right path?  We need to keep asking ourselves if we have the diamond.

We will know when we have it. We will feel the shift. Sometimes spiritual people, good people, are not on their path. We each have a specific route. Every night, when our soul goes up to recharge, we are all asked if we are on track. Do you wake in the morning with joy for the day or like a lot of people is it, Oh God What Today? Do you look to others to esteem you ? Do you seek to have as many toys as your neighbor ? Do you only feel of worth when you are doing for others ? Do you get mired down in the daily grind of he said she said with your friends , co-workers, family ? Do you trust that which you came here to do you are doing ? Or are you doing what others wish you to do ?

It does not take money, power, or others to set you on the right path. It takes only you.

We don’t have to search for our path. The right path, the one that will lead us to the diamond, is in front of us.

The lost years, the years you set waiting, wondering, for it all to come together.
There are no guarantees that any one of us – you or I – are going to be able to do, be, or have all the things that our heart desires in this lifetime.
But you can guarantee that you will not have them if you simply wait for “someday” because “someday” does not appear on any calendar I know of.

This is an all too familiar reference for me. Someday…this. Someday…..that. Well someday’s I’m tired of it never being now! Why can’t good things just happen when I want them too? They did happen I just failed to appreciate them in that moment. I threw it away unable to see it for what it was… My someday.
“Most of us say we know we are responsible for our satisfaction, but deep down we still wait for that someone to appear who will make us happy.” I have and still do await that someone to not make me happy but to be happy with.

I have spent for too long waiting for someday and now my someday has come has to come is here right now in front of me. If not now, I should say NEVER, and just give it up and give it over to my lot in life. Blindness.

You see I could have would have and most certainly should have taken those’s opportunities during what I call the lost years. The years I made excuses, the years I waited for just the right time, just for the things to be all right with my kids, just the right time to remarry again, just the right time……… There was never a right time. I denied myself the time the place the pleasure to mired in my own inability to see what was right in front of me. Waiting, What I discovered, didn’t do much for me. I waited so long staying in the present that I forgot about a future.

I am now on the Path of finding something to hold onto in every moment. I am going to travel and see all the some places I have never seen while I still have some vision left. I am going to look for that person who is my other half, (I know he is out there). I will not miss another opportunity to lost in the someday syndrome. And for you who are reading this ask yourself the same question I ask now.
Why not today?