It's really no secret

Last night I was in bed just in time to watch The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  His first guest was Matthew Mcconaughey.  While they were talking Matthew mentioned the first time he was on the show how nice Jay was when he stopped by the Green Room before the show started asking if Matthew was nervous.  Apparently Matthew responded that he was, but that Jay said to him "Just want to be here."

What a simple thing to say, but how much that must have meant to Matthew, of course he wanted to be there, anybody starting out in the entertainment business wanted to be there...with Jay Leno...on the tonight show.

And, with that simple sentence, I discovered the real secret of life.  Just want to be here. 

As we travel this sometimes dusty, dreary road, it is not always easy.  Over time we have to face ugly things.  Illness, divorce, death, I don't think anybody ever said or guaranteed life was going to be pretty and that there would not be uphill struggles.

Life holds inconvenient moments and things we don't want to do.  Sometimes it's as simple a thing as getting out of bed in the morning, being stuck in an airport for a couple of days because of canceled flights, or having to face a judge.

Certainly there are places we don't want to be.  Jail, for instance.  Or a hospital emergency ward, or along the side of a road with a flat tire or no gasoline with no repair service or gas station in sight.

Often these bumps in our life's road are unavoidable, but necessary for our growth,  teaching us patience, prudence, charity, kindness, understanding, humility, and love.
We may not particularly like the taste of our 'just desserts', but they are valuable nonetheless.

Sometimes we make what we want our secret of life to be, way more difficult than it need be.  I think as long as we learn from our trials and tribulations, our way through life will be crystal clear, allowing us to become teachers for our children, grandchildren and beyond.  Our life is the example, the secret...and all we need to do is JUST WANT TO BE HERE.