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A person who is alive is constantly getting lost. The big thing...is to realize that this is [your] own adventure, and that all the field guides and oracles and shamans...holding up mirrors can only flash you...a glimpse of your own story. It’s yours to savor. It belongs to no one else. ⁷

Exploring what matters to you is your job in life. In order to get a clear and concise picture of the areas that make up the person that you are, there needs to be an exploration for understanding. As you do this, you end up finding what really matters to you in life. You have a conscious awareness of why you are making your choices, insuring that they are based on your own desires, interests, talents, beliefs, and values and not someone else’s.

For instance, after that argument with your wife where you were left staring into space when she said, “Why aren’t you able to just share your feelings with me?”, you then gravitated into the next room where you began your familiar “internalizing mode!” Try exploring just why you tend to stuff your emotions when asked to express your thoughts on a particular “feeling” related issue. You’re probably thinking, “I really do want this tension to leave between my wife and me, but I also don’t want to do the ‘emotion thing’ because I just don’t do that very well and it makes me feel uncomfortable.” Well, you’ve identified one part of understanding yourself, and that is that you at least “have a desire” to alleviate the tension between you two.

You may ask, “Doesn’t everyone have a desire to end tension?” The short answer here would be, “No!” Some people are perfectly satisfied

“leaving sleeping dogs lie.” It bothers them very little to not address the issue, because to them, to not address it is much less work than to face all of the emotions connected with addressing it!

Now let’s check in with the values that you hold as important standards of quality in your life. Were there any positive messages that were imparted to you as a child that would speak to wanting resolution in marital conflict? Did you witness your parents disagree or argue about issues but end up talking and communicating about them that led to resolution? Or did you witness the complete opposite where issues just constantly hung out there and were seldom or never resolved within the marriage? Let’s just say that it was the latter, but there is a great longing in you to not want to repeat in your marriage what you witnessed growing up as a child. Now you are beginning to understand and discover the greater YOU when it comes to what values are meaningful! You are now identifying certain standards of

value that exist in you, things that matter and are important even though you didn’t view this example growing up.

The following is a great story of a man who discovers a part of his true belief system and comes to understand his amazing determination under extreme pressure.

In 1883, a creative engineer named John Roebling was inspired by an idea to build a spectacular bridge connecting New York with Long Island. However bridge building experts throughout the world thought that this was an impossible feat and told Roebling to forget the idea. It just could not be done. It was not practical. It had never been done before.

Roebling could not ignore the vision he had in his mind of this bridge. He thought about it all the time and he knew deep in his heart that it could be done. He just had to share the dream with someone else. After much discussion and persuasion he managed to convince his son, Washington, an up-and-coming engineer, that the bridge in fact could be built.

Working together for the first time, the father and son developed concepts of how it could be accomplished and how the obstacles could be overcome. With great excitement and inspiration, and the headiness of a wild challenge before them, they hired their crew and began to build their dream bridge.

The project started well, but when it was only a few months underway a tragic accident on the site took the life of John Roebling.

Washington was injured and left with a certain amount of brain damage, which resulted in him not being able to walk or talk or even move. “We told them so.” “Crazy men and their crazy dreams.” “It`s foolish to chase wild visions.”

Everyone had a negative comment to make and felt that the project should be scrapped since the Roeblings were the only ones who knew how the bridge could be built. In spite of his handicap Washington was never discouraged and still had a burning desire to complete the bridge and his mind was still as sharp as ever.

He tried to inspire and pass on his enthusiasm to some of his friends, but they were too daunted by the task. As he lay on his bed in his hospital room, with the sunlight streaming through the windows,

a gentle breeze blew the flimsy white curtains apart and he was able to see the sky and the tops of the trees outside for just a moment.

It seemed that there was a message for him not to give up. Suddenly an idea hit him. All he could do was move one finger and he decided to make the best use of it. By moving this, he slowly developed a code of communication with his wife.

He touched his wife’s arm with that finger, indicating to her that he wanted her to call the engineers again. Then he used the same method of tapping her arm to tell the engineers what to do. It seemed foolish but the project was under way again.

For 13 years Washington tapped out his instructions with his finger on his wife’s arm, until the bridge was finally completed. Today the spectacular Brooklyn Bridge stands in all its glory as a tribute to the triumph of one man’s indomitable spirit and his determination not to be defeated by circumstances. It is also a tribute to the engineers and their teamwork, and to their faith in a man who was considered mad by half the world. It stands too, as a tangible monument to the love and devotion of his wife who for 13 long years patiently decoded the messages of her husband and told the engineers what to do. ⁸

Perhaps this is one of the best examples of a never-say-die attitude that overcomes a terrible physical handicap and achieves an impossible goal. Washington Roeblings had no idea whatsoever of the unbelievable determination that existed within him. It was only under extreme pressure that this quality was able to rise to the top.

He, as well as many others, came to discover the greater implanted abilities and inspiration that was lodged deep within the recesses of his innermost being. So often you don’t know who you really are until the going gets tough! The greater YOU pops out when you least expect it. This was Washington Roebling’s story, it was his

“adventure” being unveiled before his very eyes. His raw tenacity was a diamond in the rough. His strong beliefs were hidden; they were there all of the time but just had to be squeezed in order to bring his vision to the forefront. His vision was “an appeal to [his] better self, a call to becoming something more.” It is the same with you, me and everyone else. In order to properly and effectively envision your life for success, there has to be a deeper call to the greater YOU! If not,

your better self will never really be expressed, and your true potential never discovered. The rock group, Kansas, put it best when they said,

“I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment’s gone. All my dreams pass before my eyes, a curiosity. Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind.”⁹ Remember, it’s “your own story, it’s yours to savor…it belongs to no one else” so reach out and grab it and refuse to allow any obstacle to come against your assigned destiny for a greater YOU!