Remember, best block, not be there. — Mr. Miyagi in Karate Kid II
So if the job of the villain is to bring out our inner hero, then what is our job as heroes?
There are really only two choices you need to make to avoid taking regrets to the grave.
How to avoid giving up in the dark before dawn, the snow storm before spring, the funk before the breakthrough.
Sometimes we get disconnected from passion, and our inner light goes dim. Here’s how to set it blazing again.
I think about that voice I heard on our last ride together. “I’ve done what I came to do. Now when are you going to get on with what you’re here to do?”
That was her place. To protect me, to remind me. To be next to me. And that place is empty.
For us, Moira will always be a reminder that love survives. It survives separation, and it survives adversity. And certainly, it will survive death.
I want to be able to say “I spent all my life doing what my soul wanted me to do.”
Wrestling the muse. Pinning the genius like a moth to a corkboard. Delving, and distilling until it feels pure and right …