desire? committment?

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis

Commitment. Desire. Most often the meaning or usage of these two words are intertwined or used together. Its understandable, i mean how can u have commitment without desire or vice versa?

The past few weeks i have been involved in something that required alot of commitment. Endless nights of practice, rehearsals, meetings, and so on.

Today, i asked a friend to give me a topic and he mentioned commitment. Hence i thought the experience i have been through the past weeks may help in this blog.

In my opinion, the key to having a solid commitment is DESIRE, hence the quote given above. Almost every aspect of our lives are in some way governed by a need, a desire, the intention, or passion to do something. Be it in love, work, or anything, if its without desire, its gonna be tough.

Lets go back a while, think about the older days when wars were fought. The one thing that kept soldier alive, was desire, and it is that desire that drove theri commitment towards their cause. understand what i am saying?

Anyway, i am moving away from my point. As i mentioned, i was involved in something that required the commitment of many individuals. I have to be honest with you, even i wasn't that confident with this project and did not show the commitment or dedication needed for the project. However, after seeing the Directors of the project sacrifice their time,money, and almost everything to ensure the success of the event I couldn't help but feel compelled to do the same. And since then, the desire to prove myself worthy of the job chosen for me and to work together with everyone is what i thought led to me committing myelf to this project.

In my opinion, the event turned out to be a success, all because of committment. For example, an individual known as WK contirbuted immensely to the project and it was good to see him smile after the event, everyone loved it and the faces of the people involved were all filled with content, and pure happiness. I mean the feeling to me cannot be described, it was simple euphoria.

Going back to the quote above, it just goes to show, if you want something hard enough.. u wnat to accomplish something.. you just have to do it with that desire... this desire would lead to a greater committment alongside the other reasons for you doing something.

But....

sometimes... we often overlook other things when we let desire get the better of ourselves. Desire is good, but sometimes when you are pursuing something that will gain you power, that desire of power often leads us astray. Hence, it is important to keep our integrity.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), in Good Housekeeping

Some people are wiling to lose everything in order to gain everything. one thing you shouldnt lose is your integrity....

think about it..