Making things happen...

"There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are people who wonder what happened. To be successful, you need to be a person who makes things happen."- Jim Lovell

I've been super sensitive lately to people's complaints- complaints about other people, complaints about government, complaints about life in general, complaints about relationships, complaints about minor inconveniences. And, I think people complain when they feel out of control. These are the people who "watch things happen" and who "wonder what happened". People who "make things happen" are in the pilot's seat. They are too busy to complain. Look at Jim Lovell. He was commander of the Apollo 13 mission, during which almost everything went wrong. But, he didn't complain, he acted. Each of us is in a day-to-day fight for survival just as serious as Lovell's. When we live in fear, we are experiencing a "death-in-life", as FBI Profiler, Roy Hazelwood, would call it. We act to live. Maybe we can't make things happen in all aspects of life, but if we work on the areas we can, the others won't matter so much.


Tonight I watched Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon, the one we missed at the KSC, and Apollo 13. Remarkable stories of human triumph that make our day-to-day problems seems as tiny as the Earth when viewed from the surface of the moon.