DESPERADO DECISION? COME DOWN FROM YOUR FENCES

A desperado decision happens the moment you spread your wings and fly.

Like an eagle.

It happens when you meet someone who says, “We can do this together.”

That’s the day things change, the day you agree with a strong, “Yes, we can.”

Set it in stone.

When that happens you can look at the heights surrounding you and they’re not so high.

Together you share a belief that you can merge two lives. It’s not a dream, or a wish, or a goal. That’s the wind beneath your wings.

Together you believe it as much as you believe the earth circles the sun and the moon circles the earth.

You believe together that each of you can lift the other to greater heights of peace, love, and understanding.

It Takes A Desperado Decision To Make It Real

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
You’ve been out ridin’ fences for so long now
Oh, you’re a hard one
I know that you got your reasons
These things that are pleasin’ you
Can hurt you somehow

After wandering in a desert of uncertainty long enough it starts feeling like that’s the way things are, they way they’ve been, and they way it will always be.

The sun has been baking, the sand cooking, then you turn a corner and see something way down there. It’s a blue stream of cool, clear, water.

Water?

You can see it, hear it, feel it, but you can’t get there until someone you’ve known all along explains how.

It Takes Two To Make It Happen

Together you see the water and it changes from an impossible journey to a shared destination.

On that day the water is cooler, crystal clear, and you see your reflection.

Together you see the same reflection.

Desperado, oh, you ain’t gettin’ no younger
Your pain and your hunger, they’re drivin’ you home
And freedom, oh freedom well, that’s just some people talkin’
Your prison is walking through this world all alone

Together you see the future in your shared reflection.

Careful Steps To A Desperado Decision

Stepping from one moment to the next carries no guarantees.

It’s slippery and uncertain and people do fall.

But that’s not you, and you won’t let each other stay down if you do fall.

Take Rocky Balboa’s advice:

“Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done!

Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth. But ya gotta be willing to take the hits, and not pointing fingers saying you ain’t where you wanna be because of him, or her, or anybody! Cowards do that and that ain’t you! You’re better than that! 

Reading it is one thing, hearing it another.

Who says it better than Rocky?

“And don’t forget to visit your mother.”

Mark This Day From The Start

Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses?
Come down from your fences, open the gate
It may be rainin’, but there’s a rainbow above you
You better let somebody love you
(Let somebody love you)
You better let somebody love you before it’s too late

You’ve come to your senses and opened the gate?

Keep going.

It’s not raining today, but tomorrow it might.

Let that rainbow shine everyday while you make a pot of gold for each other.

Will it shine brighter for one of you than the other some days? Of course.

That’s a day to share fifty one percent of your pot of gold.

Is it getting brighter out there, or just me thinking about cool, clear, water?