This is another blog that i wrote a while back on my myspace page.

it seems ive been inspired again and not really feeling like studying ive decided to write another blog this time inspired by a bike ride a song and a question from a friend and some how there all going to interweave in to a compelling read for you all well maybe anyway i think ill just start with the song cos thats a good place to start Its called Ten Years Time and its by One Dollar Short im guessing most of you havent Heard of them but theres some lyrics below for you all

The dream as every dream is ours
so dont stand idle waiting.
For those that wait get left behind
washed ashore by the hands of time
what if tomorrow never came?

Today as every day is ours so make each and everyday count somehow.
Will you have played your part?
Will you have carved your mark?
Where are you at this very moment?
Where will you be this time next year?
Where will you be in 10 years time?

What if you just had one more day?
What if you were a second away?
A pinch of sand, a grain of salt,
another yesterday with no result.
Don’t let time catch you with regret.
For those who wait,
get left behind washed ashore
by the hands of time.
What if tomorrow never came?

If you lose your way, just remember that
if man can reach the stars, then so can you.
Where will you be this time next year?
Where will you be in ten years time?

Do you ever wonder?
Do you ever wonder?
Where will you be this time next year?
Where will you be in ten years time?
Where will you be this time next year?
Where will you be in ten years time?

Ten years time, ten years time, ten years time…

Well i had this song stuck in my head while i was out riding the other night and i started thinking about it as you do or i do anyway. For those of you who dont know i normally go out riding with a group Tuesday nights and last year cos of uni commitments last year i kinda stopped and ive only been back out 2 or 3 times and its been fair hard cos there all really fit and im not that fit yet. I was riding up a hill thinking how nice it is to not be the last person and that kinda went on to thinking how hard i had already worked to just get that far and how much stronger i had already become cos the first couple of weeks i hadent been able to at all and how it would have been so easy to just sit at home on the couch or the computer and then i was kinda thinking how this related to life and how its so much easier just to sit around and not start anything new and if we do actually start it how easy it is to get to the first hurdle give up then stop trust me i do this all the time with maths i know how easy it is. then i started to think of the song above and how if we do spend all our time on the couch or bumming around on the computer or how ever you waste time and this is where the song comes in where are you actually going to be in a year im guessing still there having not changed or grown or achieved anything as the first verse says

The dream as every dream is ours
so dont stand idle waiting.
For those that wait get left behind
washed ashore by the hands of time
what if tomorrow never came?

if you wernt going to see tomorrow would you be satisfied with everything you had done? would you be proud of what you had done with your life? or would there have been something more you would have liked to do? cos this is our one and only chance at life once we have had it were not going to get it again were not going to be able to go back and do anymore whats been done will be done and what hasnt been done wont ever be done my favorate part of one of my favorite books that ive found through experience over the years to be so true says

4-6 Still, anyone selected out for life has hope, for, as they say, “A living dog is better than a dead lion.” The living at least know something, even if it’s only that they’re going to die. But the dead know nothing and get nothing. They’re a minus that no one remembers. Their loves, their hates, yes, even their dreams, are long gone. There’s not a trace of them left in the affairs of this earth.
7-10 Seize life! Eat bread with gusto, Drink wine with a robust heart. Oh yes”God takes pleasure in your pleasure! Dress festively every morning. Don’t skimp on colors and scarves. Relish life with the spouse you love Each and every day of your precarious life. Each day is God’s gift. It’s all you get in exchange For the hard work of staying alive. Make the most of each one! Whatever turns up, grab it and do it. And heartily! This is your last and only chance at it,

the book is of course the bible and its in Ecclesiastes 9 if any of you wanted to know but at the same time we have to be careful not to get so busy that we dont have time to enjoy life because if we do this will lead to burn out and thats so not a good thing. I was reminded of this as i rode around a corner and all of a sudden there was the most beautiful sunset out over adelaide

before i started to talk about growing stronger as you ride more and more so you can go faster and get further with less pain and effort. but before you can get to this point you have to actually get up and start taking steps i know how hard it is to get up off a couch and go do something physically but the same defiantly holds through all of life the first steps are always the hardest when you start to take on something new and slowly as you build momentum things get easier till you get to the point where its time to start a new thing again and its through doing this that we grow as people. as with all excersize you dont get any fitter or stronger by sitting on the couch you actually have to get out there and do something and while some will argue that it never really gets that much easier you do start to get fitter and stronger and the same goes with life you dont start to grow till you actually get up off the couch and start to experience stuff and its through experience that you gain strength and knowledge and grow as a person.

Then we come to the next part that revolves around a random question asked by a friend “What do you want to achieve with your life?” so what do you want to achieve what do you want to be remembered for? will you get there by just sitting on the couch or do you have to get up and do something which does kinda bring us on to the meaning of life and what are we meant to do and achieve while were here some may believe that we just have to struggle through try not to stuff to many things up and maybe do a few good things along the way. I know many of you probably have different views on this and some of you may not be entirely sure but Personally i believe there is a lot more to life then that as a Christian i believe that im here for a reason and because of that reason i can get up each day knowing my life has a purpose and it gives me something to aim to and something to celebrate as i get closer to achieving it. one way i see of putting it is as a grueling training ground to grow and develop for whats comeing a head kinda like the training you do for the army or the police force. and a couple of major points here are that its not always easy, there is a end and that your not always going to get 100% and its because of this last fact that god sent his son because for us to pass the training and get to heaven (the coolest biggest party ever) where god wants us to be we had to get 100% and be perfect but for us as humans that is impossible we all stuff up somewhere along the line so that is why god sent his son Jesus for us to make the ultimate sacrifice so that if we choose to believe this when we get to the gates in heaven and our score card gets judged instead of us being judged on our score card Jesus’s score card replaces ours so that we can have a perfect score and make it in. and its because of all this my answer to that question before was “To leave a eternal difference in as many people as possible after all in the end that is all that counts”

hmm thats a long blog if you have actually got through to reading this far congratulations you deserve a medal but feel free to let me know what you thought of it id love any feedback and if that one wasnt enough for you theres another 2 there as well and im sure there will be more soon.

one final comment: speaking in terms of music it takes one note to form the basis of a chord how it sounds after that is all up to what else you put with it