Daniel William McKnight

What is enough?

2009-01-10T07:49:00.001-08:00

My mother gave me one fantastic piece of advice, that all through my years I have never forgotten, "Where ever you go, there you are." To some it may seem simple, but for me, well, it has defined who I am today. I have spent the last ten years of my life running, not from something but too something. And everywhere I go, I have to remind myself that I cannot escape who I am, who God created me to be.

I am 29 now and I find that I am still running toward that "something". I have no idea what it is, what it means, where it will take me. It is my passion and my burden all at once. It has introduced love into my life and taken it away. It has cleansed me and corrupted me. It has revealed to me the voice of God and lead me far from their embrace. The more I search for whatever it is I am searching for the more I realize that I do not really want to find it, the journey toward that fulfillment is enough. The stories that I hope to tell someday to my grandchildren are enough. The lives and dreams of the people I meet along the way are enough. To live, to learn, to die knowing that I never stopped seeking what is never ending is enough.

Changes

2008-11-19T14:26:00.000-08:00

Changes come in many forms throughout life. Relationships, jobs, education, life and death and a huge change is coming my way. On December 31, 2008 I will embark on a journey to the amazing country of Argentina, Buenos Aires to be exact. For the last six years I have talked and talked about making this move. I have taken Spanish classes, had Spanish girlfriends and have eaten more rice, chicken, and beans than I ever thought possible.

I know little about this country and my level of Spanish is certainly not what it should be, however I will no longer stand by and watch life drift away. I will be thirty years old next year and my worst fear is that I will end up finding myself at forty wishing that I would have taken more risks, more chances no matter the outcome. This may be a bad decision, a horrible mistake, I may find myself at the end of my life over there but I may also find myself at the end of my life when I leave my house tonight for school. Every day that you awaken you take a chance at life and as a good friend of mine told me recently, "It's much better to live exciting than only talk about living exciting."