Crisis = Opportunity

Ruby: What are you writing in your journal?
Me: Nothing good. It hasn't been good for a while. This whole trip I've hardly felt any deep, spirit wrenching words or ideas that inspire me to write anything out of them. I have been inspired but I'm not able to write. Right now I'm just writing my journal an update as to what I'm doing so I don't forget.
Ruby: Okay, just writing down what you're doing so you don't drink too much champagne you forget it all.
Me: Writing down what I'm doing so I don't forget why I'm here on this planet.
Ruby: Oh I already forgot that a long time ago.
Me: Good for you for having something to forget in the first place.

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Does anyone ever know what they're doing on this planet? There are definitely people who think they know what their doing. There are people who make you feel like you know what you're doing. Overtime I'll look back on things I've done in the past and think, I've never really known what I'm doing. I don't know how things are going turn out. Even doing things over and over again can result in things I never could have planned for. 

When things do turn out unexpectedly or wrong there is always some way through it. A wise, witty, intelligent, funny, and awe inspiring man once told me that, In China, the symbol for crisis is the same as the symbol for opportunity. It is true for any crisis and other forms of bad situations. It is true on grand scales and in each individual mind. 

As humans we can plan and think forward centuries. We can take what we've learned and what we know and build things that are better than what we've built before. We can be told what to do and tell others what to do, but is there a way to tell what you're doing in this world and why you're doing? You may come to the conclusion that, in the grandest scheme of things you are only a spec, with little to no meaning. You may think "there is no point what in what I do because it doesn't make a difference." Or, you can distance yourself from doubt and fear. You can believe in the things you wish for, and most importantly believe yourself. You can make everything you do, and everything around you an improvement of yourself. Make everything a dance. Then, It won't matter what you do, whether you know what you're doing or don't have the slightest idea. It will matter how you do it; whether with joy and fulfillment or regret and anger. Whether you let a crisis bring you down, or turn it into a possibility in whatever form it comes in. Make a choice to win, no matter what.