Ordinary: Love & Opportunity: Reflections on Life & Risks File: #JNAFILES (xii) --- "Embrace the two most powerful warriors of life - Love and Opportunity. I'm trying to prove in my own way that they will take you places that you never thought possible." - JNA Hi, I don't intend on these Ordinary Files to be intimate. Just ordinary! I intend For these to cover interesting thoughts, lessons, ideas, stories that occur in my life on a day-to-day for the dual purpose of documentation & hopefully bringing value to the individual reading. 2 things stand out as thoughts I would like to burn onto the block: - Love - Opportunity Love: Yesterday, browsing through ordinals.com (its quite the entertainment) I came across an inscription that literally was a .txt file containing 1 sentence. The sentence was written to this individuals children, Expressing how much they love them. I was touched and inspired by the Note, and thought I'd leave my 2 children (grand children, great grandchildren, etc) a short little love note. Note: I was't perfect. I made mistakes. I judged myself HARD for those Mistakes. Then... I learned from them. This is what I learned - Its human! As long as you are willing to continuously find lessons, growth, and the love and peace within yourself, Thats whats most Important. At least thats my hope for you. Live life YOUR way. Happiness is a delusion if you think you can find it outside of you. J.L.N.M.A & J.E.A.M.A if you happen to stumble across this, know that You completely changed your mom and my life for the better. I've Always been a pretty ambitious person, but my ambition and desire To find my journey (and become it), for the hope that it is an example, Blueprint for you to find and become yours, is SO MUCH greater today. Thank you for blessing us with a fresh new lens on life's glasses. I love you! JNA Opportunity: This is going to be a wild contrast to what you read above, but like I said, these are just thoughts I wanted to share. Today, I came Across an opportunity to take a risk. Ironically, as I've matured, These moments just so happen to be visiting me more often. Why is That, I wonder? All I can tell you is that, I don't know where we Go after we leave earth (this message lives on lol) but I do know That we, in this form, are only here once. No regrets. The risks That appear on my table today, are tied to my mission of putting Myself in a way better position to take care of my entire family For generations to come. When it happens, AMAZING! The risk is, if it doesn't, will I regret going for it? You know the answer to that after Reading the words above. Let me drop two quotes for you: a. Opportunity is when luck, preparation, (and courage) meet. b. We have 2 lives. The 2nd begins the moment we realize we that We only have 1 - Confucius --- Prev File ID: 15bcca2ee965d6a0ab507454480369c278f69ed8f46c802dffc5205373ab134bi0 --- #JNAFILES