When Anthony Was

Applying A Wakening Vision

"Have the vision and know to be honest with how much you're applying yourself in its wake."
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

BY ANTHONY ROSS

How we define wake on Google is:

verb

1. 1.

   emerge or cause to emerge from a state of sleep; stop sleeping.

   "she woke up feeling better"

In the 'New' Lexicon Webster's Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language, it provides such synonyms for wake as:

activate, animated, arouse, awake, awaken, call, enkindle, excite, kindle, prod, revive, rouse, stimulate, stir and of course wake.

So it is that the English language repeats itself.  In the provided Google example, "she woke up feeling better," it could be implied that her waking up activated, animated, revived and excited her, and so she felt better.  It could simply be said, "she woke up," and in using the verb waking, we could assume all its synonyms apply.

Yet, we don't always wake up animated, excited, enkindled with liveliness.  Why is that?  When the body's resting, it should be rested upon waking, surely.  Is the mind resting too?  A more difficult question to answer, though fairly obvious at the same time.  The states we revive within us, whether we remember them or they come to happen of spontaneous manner, are the states that we live.

Having a vision of the way you want to go about your life can be helpful.  It doesn't mean that you are stuck to this idea.  You use it as a spring board to propel yourself whenever the application of your faculties ceases to inspire you.  Have the vision and know to be honest with how much you're applying yourself in its wake.

We want to fashion our thoughts to fruitful efforts, and direct our energy with intelligence.  Being able to imagine yourself at the end of the line may be an easier way to start walking.  You may not get to that end result any quicker, which will be different than you can picture it anyway.  With a vision, you can encourage yourself to continue on the path.  The path is our greatest joy.  It is the state we live.  To get behind on the path or to rush forward is part of that same path.  It is the present one, the one who is awake, that will see these things and walk fruitfully with an ever-adapting vision. Ultimately, it's how you apply yourself.