step back

GOOD NEWS: We're finally getting broadband (Bjorn is proud that I got my priorities right haha)
BAD NEWS: Our Internet phone line has been disconnected so I doubt I'll be netting too much over the next ten days... maybe

TWO THUMBS UP for Million Dollar Baby. Okay, so I fell asleep for a while - but that's normal! It was an excellent movie! Something that was said in the early part of the movie stayed with me for a while:

In a fight, sometimes you have to step back to land a good punch; Step back too much and you might risk not fighting at all

I so often become so passionate in the battles I face in life that I can't step back. I tend to want to fight and fight and fight. Who knows if stepping back will do anything really. The risk I face with getting so involved, so close, so deep in life's battles is that my guard will come down and I could walk into a punch in the gut. We're all drawn to temptation and challenges - and even though it might seem that walking away is "the right thing to do", in the words of Lane Olinghouse:

Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address

So what's the point? I think, subconsciously, we think we can win these battles, we can beat the challenges and we can overcome the temptations. After all, why fight for something you can't win? or rather why shouldn't we fight for what makes us happy?

Ok, I think I have to get off now. Net time over for tonight. Good night!