The Sun Never Shines In The Night

The Moon Never Cries In The Morning

Mi primito me envió un correo hoy, la verdad tenía mucho tiempo de no leer algo tan bueno, así que decidí compartirlo. Espero que lo disfruten y lo apliquen en su vida... (está en inglés, si me dan ganas se los traduzco luego...)

Everything in life is doomed at the start. There is no question that it will have a trajectory, the only mystery is how long and far the flight will last. A heat-seeking missile embedded within whatever you have built, simply waits for the right time to fire and bring it to the ground. Why? We haven't a clue. But in our moments of champagne euphoria, it is good to be armed with the knowledge of the truth. With the knowledge that this too will pass. With the knowledge that behind it, another rocket is ready to launch. Another journey ready to be taken. Renewal is one of the true majesties of life. Interesting, we think the end, of a business, a job, a passion, a relationship, tells us something about the beginning. But the polar opposite is true. The beginning and the end are born at precisely the same time. But in the giddiness of the new we refuse to see that it is an imposter for the end. All of the fault lines and limitations and physics and DNA that will destroy it, are there in full view when the opening toasts are made.

Imagine if we looked for them. If we engaged in due diligence at the start. Hunted down the enemies of the good and the beautiful and the successful-the enemies of longevity-and destroyed them before they ruined what we have built. What we adored. What we looked at with amazing pride. What we had every right to be proud of because we vested it with care and intellect and creativity and drive and faith. Blind faith. Reckless faith. Joyous faith.

It would change nothing. You have to throw yourself at the things you create in life with wonderful abandon and let them fly for as long as the gods allow. Probably the truest axiom is that the secret to life is enjoying the passage of time. That's all you need to do… and it is endlessly wonderful. Because when the business dies, you can form another. When the job turns into a drudge, you can walk across the street. When the strategy or the campaign fails-and ultimately it will-you can rethink it and raise the curtain on ACT II.

It is just important to know at the start-not to dwell on it but to know-that there will inevitably be an ACT II. And you are alive. And you can seize it. We all have to live knowing that there is so much we do not and cannot understand. The trick is never to let that mystery hold us hostage. Or stop us from taking risk.

Until we know why the sun never shines at night and the moon never cries in the morning, we are on our own. Free to build and create and manage and love, knowing the uncertainty just makes it more enthralling.

by Mark Stevens