Tut’s Truth

There came a day when the entire dig appeared to be a disappointment.  Money, time, and effort were expended at the fullest, yet nothing was found.  Why did they continue? Because one man believed in himself and that was his starting point.  With his belief in himself, he was able to be honest with his own ambition and place himself on the line to dig a few more days.  He told the man who funded the dig that, if he did not find the tomb in the days to come, he would be a personal laborer for him for however long it was until he paid him back.

So, the discovery all started with the truth of his spirit.  It took him discovering something in himself first before he could discover anything on the outside of himself.  He was most likely possessed with the feeling of “now.” “Now” is the time to dig, and through the passion and endurance of his courageous workers, he was able to find a part of the past to inspire others in the future. With these few extended days, living in the now, and belief in his spirit, he arrived at the chamber and chiseled and carved until he reached the beautiful tomb of the great pharos, King Tutanhamun or “King Tut.”

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To truly find happiness, we often need similar intensity and passion.  Many believe we need a life-altering experience to discover or rediscover ourselves, like a birth, death, or a “big” disruption in one’s pace of living.  These events can definitely spark one’s need to feel the rhythm of his or her spirit.  On the other hand, these “big” events can exhaust the energy we need in order to dig.  All we really need is a small seed of hope that comes from one place, nature.  The human spirit is our most natural environment.  Maybe it is the spirit of a birth, death, or waking up one morning and deciding to roll up our sleeves, dig in, and get our hands dirty.

          As we break ground and start digging, we might pause and try to determine the direction of our dig. We may decide to change course, and this is understandable, as long as we get closer and closer to the truth.  Perhaps we find a small fossil and need a few moments to analyze and determine if the fossil is a part of our natural makeup or perhaps someone else’s. Sometimes in our lives, we become so closely linked and intertwined with another that it sometimes becomes difficult to decipher “what” makes up who we really are. For example, our parents, friends, lovers, teachers, and so forth can add small fossils to our makeup, but with our maturity and vision, we can make a decision to either keep it or toss it aside in our dig.  But even in our times of uncertainty and exhaustion, we must continue digging.