HATIN’ ON HARMONY…
I hate the word HARMONY…
“Live in HARMONY”
“Find HARMONY”
COME ON!!!
I know when you read it, or when many people read it…
They think…
“Living a life of harmony…”
BS!
They think about a life where…
- the sun is always setting but never sets
- you are always gazing into your loved one’s eyes
- you have a full head of hair and its blowing perfectly into the light breeze
- there is a nice bottle of California Red Cabernet that is the color of rubies
- And, there is peaceful elevator music playing in the background…
BAM!!!
Harmony is for wimps… I know that is what most people think…
Come on now… don’t tell me that is not what goes through your mind, or maybe used to go through your mind if someone told you they wanted to live a life of HARMONY.
For me, when I think about a life of harmony… I think about a life where…
- I make difficult conversations happen quickly and constructively,
- I struggle to love but love deeply and passionately,
- I am driven everyday with passion toward a purpose that is worthy,
- I have real relationships and see the beauty and the fear in people,
- I realize that I only exist in the moment and that is the only place where I can thrive, affect, experience, construct, grow and FEEL!
- I know that no matter what happens in this moment, the next moment will be brand new… and happiness can turn to sadness or sadness can turn to happiness in the span of a heartbeat.
HARMONY, the more I undertstand it, is STRONG and POWERFUL…
Harmony requires accepting the reality of time.
Harmony requires accepting our imperfection.
Harmony requires embracing our own mortality.
Harmony requires acknowledging there is no correlation between money and happiness.
Harmony requires us to accept there is no past and no future.
Harmony requires us to accept variability.
Harmony requires us to know the difference between WANTING and WISHING.
Harmony expects us to know the line between what we can control and what we can’t…
Harmony requires stamina…
Harmony knows we will fail…
Harmony knows we will always have the ability to get up!
HARMONY…
Life is a song that only gets played once…
And, you get to be the conductor of your own life…
There is no elevator music playing in the background…
There is a sound like you’ve never heard before..
A magical sound… that you can’t necessarily recreate…
You can only improve upon…
I hate what HARMONY connotes to so many…
And
I LOVE what HARMONY has come to mean to you and me…
I LOVE how HARMONY has become a word that my friends and colleagues talk about…
I LOVE how perfectly HARMONY speaks to the challenge of success and happiness…
FINDING the next note… in your musical composition…
MAKING the next note FIT and BUILD and EXPLODE off the last note…
MAKING the next NOTE touch your heart or INSPIRE you…
The song never stops…
HARMONY requires lifelong stamina…. Lifelong discipline… Lifelong focus…
A life of HARMONY is a LIFE grounded in REALITY...
A life powered by gratitude...
A life driven by want...
A life lived and experienced fully in each and every moment...
A life of HARMONY is a hard life, is a sad life, is a joyful life, is a meaningful life...
Ain't no elevator music... in a life of HARMONY ;-)
HARMONY ain’t for WIMPS!
Don't go Hatin' on HARMONY... till you have come to understand it...
and strive for it...
The way we do!
Yours,
Nestor