Greenlights

by Matthew McConaughey

I’m not perfect; no, I step in shit all the time and recognize it when I do. I’ve just learned how to scrape it off my boots and carry on.

Stepping in shit is inevitable, so let’s either see it as good luck, or figure out how to do it less often.

We don’t like yellow and red lights. They slow us down or stop our flow. They’re hard. They’re a shoeless winter. They say no, but sometimes give us what we need.

We can catch more greenlights by simply identifying where the red lights are in our life, and then change course to hit fewer of them.

The inevitability of a situation is not relative; when we accept the outcome of a given situation as inevitable, then how we choose to deal with it is relative.

We either persist and continue in our present pursuit of a desired result, pivot and take a new tack to get it, or concede altogether and tally one up for fate. We push on, call an audible, or wave the white flag and live to fight another day.

In time, yesterday’s red light leads us to a greenlight.

In this life or the next, what goes down will come up.

Persist, pivot, or concede. It’s up to us, our choice every time.