Where There is a Will, There is a Way
Posted on January 15, 2007
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There are so many facets to it. When I think about ultimate security I find myself thinking about those days in my childhood that truly gave a feeling of ultimate and complete security. I say a feeling because, like all children, our concept of security was really simple and my parents, like all parents, instinctively knew how to deliver it. No matter what, I knew that my parents were there for me to protect me and provide for me. The reality, of course, was that would begin to taper off as I approached adulthood and began to take care of myself. It is a great system that has worked well for as long as there have been children and parents.
As I got older and became a parent myself I found myself wondering how my parents did it. How did they keep it all together? How did they provide predictability in an unpredictable world? No, don’t get me wrong, I know how my wife and I do it but I wonder how they did it. It is a question that nagged at me and pulled at me for a long time. My son was about five or six when I finally asked my mother. Her answer immediately rang true because it something I heard over and over again as a child, “Where there is a will, there is a way.”
It is amazing how you ‘forget’ some things from your childhood and then have them flooding back into focus with a simple reminder. It was a philosophy that was driven into our heads at a young age. It is one that I have to sheepishly admit I have not always followed but I should have. When I look back at each ‘failure’ in my past and there are plenty it all basically came down to loosing the will to make it happen. I was tired and wanted an easy way to out of the crisis at hand. There was still a way to make it work but I didn’t have the will to find it.
I like to think I have matured during these ten years of being a parent and even more of being a husband. I like to think that but sometimes I wonder if I have matured as much as I think. I say this because over-all, I like a challenge. I like to solve technical and business problems in a new and innovative ways. But, when faced with real challenges, life challenges, I often find myself acting from a damage control or mitigation standpoint. I seem to forget that where there is a will, there is a way. It may not be the way I want to do it and it may not be easy but when faced with a challenge, any challenge, there is a way to overcome it.
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