It All Falls Down

The 34th President of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower once said, ~You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly.~ In some aspect, life can be compared to a row dominoes that at times can be a tough, as well as frustrating situation as a person works hard setting up something that most definitely takes enormous amounts of time, patience, and effort. Yet, all the hard work one puts into setting up the life he/she always wanted can all be easily knocked down or in this case toppled over not just by the hand of someone else, but from their own as well. If you think about it, each domino individually represents aspects of life each of us want to not have to fall to where we end up starting back at the beginning all over again.

As said before, life can be compared to a row of dominoes and when you're setting up you certainly want a steady hand in order to not let them fall. In a sense, when it comes to our own life each of us try to steady ourselves on something/someone solid as we go on about our business in hopes we don't end up being sabotaged or accidentally sabotaging ourselves to the point where we fall flat on our buttockal region. You see, one of the things that tends to metaphorically knock each one of us down inevitably ruining the awesome day/week/month we were thoroughly enjoying up to that particular point is drama. Essentially, drama is something you can never see coming in the game of life, so to speak, where one simple touch can teeter totter a situation/event/moment causing you to not only hold your breathe, but also experience a domino effect of emotions.

Without a doubt, we've all at some point become too focused at setting up dominoes that you alienated those around you because of selfishly wanting it done your way. Thinking about it, each and every person can get too focused in life to where it can become an absolute obsession especially when it comes to achieving professional goals. For its within those professional goals in which a new path is set up to follow filled with possible fame, fortune, and notoriety all-the-while veering off the original path one originally started out on leading one to gradually ignore the sound advice coming from friends/family. It's a sad situation indeed when a person is blinded by the intense focus of professional ambition leading all the people who lined up behind him/her being the helpful support system through the good and bad times to unfortunately fall back/out of his/her life one by one.

Let me ask you this question, have you ever been so close to accomplishing setting up all the dominoes you found yourself watching it all just fall? How did you feel when it happened? I think it would be safe to say you would feel shock, disappointment, annoyance, agitation, aggravation, frustration, and quite possibly anger. Oftentimes, it's those same feelings you experience in watching all the dominoes fall is in a sense the same feeling you get when it pertains to matters of the heart involving heartbreak. Every person has come so close in the past to hopefully being in a potential relationship with a certain special someone only to find out he/she doesn't feel the same about you. Let me tell you something, the joy, happiness, excitement, etc.are all completely knocked back leaving your heart in utter disbelief.

In retrospect, we all go about setting up the domino pieces in our own life that are deemed important. Marriage, family, friends, money, a thriving career, etc. are all what each one of us hold or would like to someday hold in our hand carefully placing them down one by one on something level and solid in hope it doesn't tip over. However, if you're not looking to God through constant prayer and the reading of his word to keep all the domino pieces steady He will continue to tip them over one by one until you do. God has lined up for us in terms of what was mentioned above and for a certain number of us it has come to fruition. In the end, He can look down with a smile on his face as he tips all the domino pieces of your life and all the hard work...all the pain, suffering, and frustration you went through...and all you truly deserve for your heart...it all falls down into place absolutely perfectly.