Living deliberately

As I am preparing for meetings overseas from Friday to Sunday, I pondered what I had to share with you. All of us have our own struggles and challenges. I am no different. We may come smiling for the runs every Tuesday, while carrying our burdens and yokes. But it does not matter as long as we are living the life the Creator has set for us, a life that has intent and purpose. I wish to share the sentiments of the great philosopher, Henry Thoreau, to live "deliberately", not just floating around. A person may have all the earthly wealth but yet still live with no purpose, no intent and no destiny.


"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."
— Henry David Thoreau.


We always tell our friends we are running in the jungle (跑山) when we refer to hashing. In the west they coin the jungle as the "woods".




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