There are plenty of times in our lives when we know what we need and we know what we really want, but we are unwilling, unable, unmotivated, afraid to go out and do it, get it, be it. What we need is a push. We need that something to happen, that someone, that opportunity to knock that pushes past knowing into doing and being. There are special people or in some cases things that happen to special people in our lives which help us to realize that we can’t just wait . Their are those people who give us the strength to act and there are the circumstances that reminds us of life’s fragile nature, and what ever it is we need it sometimes even if it’s hard, perhaps especially when it’s hard. We need a push. We need that thing to get us over whatever fear we have, whatever inadequacy we feel, so that we will take the plunge and dive deeper into life. These pushes often come when we don’t expect them and from places we didn’t even know existed, but they can’t be ignored. Even when the push comes from tragedy we have to see it as a gift because otherwise it can overwhelm us. I guess that’s part of the deal in that if we can find the gift in even a tragedy then nothing can truly overwhelm us and the gift is often the motivation to do something positive. It may not always feel like it’s so positive at first and it’s way easier to intellectualize it than to do it, but the good is out there and so are the things to push us even if it feels like they are a long time in coming.