Everyday Canvas

Taking a Chance and a Soap

Do you ever wish you could look back on your greatest love like they do in the movies? Look back on the fights or the misery or the sex or the love and see it all for what it really was? Would it make a great soap opera?

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Yes, to all, and because I don’t like soap operas, I am not elaborating on the subject.

Prompt: "If you only do what you know you can do, you'll never do very much." Tom Krause. Do you agree or disagree?

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I agree because taking a chance on things we can’t do makes us grow whether we win or lose since there is always that hope that we can succeed and this is especially important when we are trying to do something important. In this sense, it becomes a matter of the heart rather than the mind.

In a righteous situation, the conviction of the heart matters more than the idea that the attempted thing is guaranteed to turn out well. What becomes the highlight is the belief and the hope that that attempted thing is the right thing to do, regardless of how it turns out. I think, at times, the more impossible the situation, the deeper that hope has to be. If it weren't for that hope, George Washington's ragged army wouldn't have won against one of the great empires of the time with its fully clothed, fed, and armed forces. It is that kind of hope, which gives us the strength to live and always try new things and fight for what is just, albeit in impossible situations.

Therefore, paying attention to the impossibility of a venture and listening to those or to our fears who warn us that we are taking too big a chance is counter-productive on the path that we wish to follow, the path that interests us with the strength of conviction that possibly we can make some headway in the area, the path that will empower our own self-respect.