All of our acts are measure bye the inspiration from which they originate. Where you feel that presence of being within ones character and desires. That good sensation feel which occurs at those least expected times. I don’t believe it can be fabricated. I do believe it resides within the souls and hearts of each and everyone. That vibrant feel if you will. The Greeks provided us one of the most profound words within the English language – enthusiasm.
The word enthusiasm translates to “a God Within.” Within each one of us there is that passionate soul that desires to express itself. It’s that deep sense elation. Perhaps the real essence of that state of being. The splendor of feeling passionate and enthusiastic is that feeling of joy. Where things just seem to be within that area where you have that pleasurable state of mind. It’s not something forced as I see it. Rather, it's something that just happens depending on what creates your own enthusiasm and/or passion. Imagine you’re within the best musical concert or something takes place, which renders the up most within your own spirit. On the other hand, that moment where your walk into something and there it is something that renders the passion without the need of it to be forced. The simplest thing can bring about that zone where one feels in awe and ever so quickly one is within that state of being enthused.
This morning I went to pick up my car. As over the holiday weekend my back tire had to be changed but could not be serviced till this morning at the garage station which is located next to this shopping mall where I was on Friday. I arrived at this garage station which was within the location where my tire when flat. I didn’t realize I had known the manager owner from years before. Coupled with that, here was this assistant manager whom which seemed to be someone I knew. Then that light bulb effect took place! While speaking, something just came about. Perhaps it was the voice but here were a few people that I knew some twenty years ago.
Back then, I would take my Monte Carlo to be serviced. They were very rootsy people. Townish if you will. Then we came to hit it off as they owned a service garage just a few blocks from where I lived and there came a time where before I headed off to Toronto by way of car. Which was a 2500-mile trip, something had gone wrong two days before hand and here these were the people that I would often drop off a coffee and shoot the breeze with and then head off to work at a shopping center I was running here at the time. Wouldn’t you know it, within fifteen minutes the three of us realized whom we were, I think it came by way of Phil’s wife, whom worked the counter. As soon as we all figured out who was who - that light bulb effect took place! However, what was apparent was that there was enthusiasm going on. Phil talked about the old garage at the old location and how he got to where he is. I do have that gift of the gab at certain times. Phil’s wife was sitting over on the one side taking it all in and smiling. I was utterly blown away. I could have sat there twiddling my thumbs for hours. Rather, I met up with a few folk that I had not seen in some twenty years.
We literally talked our heads off Phil and Marty were older than I was, but seemingly there was a connection. When my car was finished, we shook hands and I cracked a joke about Phil and how he is much smarter yet he has less hair - and there was a retort with good fun back to me about mine, but within good fun, I said that I lost weight while they gained weight and Phil’s wife just killed herself laughing. It seemed like it was just yesterday.
When I went to pay for the work done and Phil’s wife made the remark to me, “you just made the boy's day”.
Well, for that matter it was a reciprocating effect.
They certainly did mine. The simplest thing can render this word called enthusiasm. I find that it’s not within a measurement of material but within the increments of being.
