Louis L'Amour once said, ~Up to a point a man's life is shaped by environment, heredity, and movements and changes in the world about him. Then there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am today; that I will be tomorrow."~ At some point every person looks back at one's life up until now and does a self evaluation. A self evaluation in which he or she ponders if the mistakes that were made or not made would have put him or her in the position that one is now in life.
As it has been previously said, our lives are like a piece of clay that we can shape it to be as we wish it. In some aspects, it seems simple enough to mold our lives the way we want it to be. To direct certain important or unimportant details to or away from us. The imperfections, whether they be big or small, basically smoothed out so that no bumps or cracks are shown. It's within those bumps and cracks that a person tries to be as perfect as one can be and have that so-called perfect life. A life in which there are no worries and every problem that one faces is solved in an instant. But the reality of it all is that one has to keep in mind that like life, a person isn't as perfect as one thinks or hopes to be.
Think back to your own childhood when you were in preschool or in elementary school and you made something out of clay for your mom or dad. It was usually a plate that really didn't look like one but more resembled like an ashtray; yet it didn't matter because to you it was a masterpiece. One's parent(s) didn't care what it looked like because it was made from the heart and the imperfections were insignificant. For it was one's hard work into shaping something that somewhat resembled a particular object that was made out of love that much more special. As a person who works with kids, it feels good to get something from the heart from them because they took the time to make it especially for you.
Undoubtedly as adults we have an obligation to mold a child's mind in today's society into respectable young men and women. Oftentimes the clay we are given doesn't want to be shaped and one basically feels that there is no hope for him or her. Yet, it's that pessimistic attitude that can totally surprise a person when that same child is seen again as an adult and changed immensely. Though one didn't fully mold the clay, the impressions that he or she made on that child made somewhat of an impact. It's that particular person who started the process and it was up to that child to finish it by flattening out the rough spots in his or her life. A life in which he or she just required some much needed encouragement.
In retrospect, each of us are still being molded today and what will be the end result is anybody's guess at this point. Every mistake, heartbreak, victory, setback, failure, tragedy, and triumphs happened for a reason. But the question still remains, would one be at his or her particular point in one's life if those things never happened? Who knows, one just has to work with the clay that he or she has and find out for yourself. Eventually the life you always wanted will come to fruition, it just takes time and patience for one's piece of clay to turn into something spectacular. Inevitably, we all don't know what tomorrow brings and yet it's the shape of thing to come that makes life absolutely interesting.
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