Nothing Is "Written"

"You have to do what you love to do, not get stuck in that comfort zone of a regular job. Life is not a dress rehearsal. This is it."
-Lucinda Basset

Warm Up

Strength/Skill
50 Jump Rope Triple Unders

WOD
10 Rounds for time:
5 Bench Press @185#
10 Chest to Bar Pull Ups

Rest 5 - 10 minutes

WOD2
5 Rounds for time:
15 Front Squats @135#
Run 400 Meters

Endurance
Rest



Nothing is written

My all-time favourite film is "Lawrence Of Arabia" and, if I have a favourite scene from the movie, then I guess it is the one of Lawrence's triumphal return from the Nefud desert, having gone back to rescue the Arab Gasim. The crossing of the Nefud desert is considered impossible, even by the local Arabs, but Lawrence persuades them that, in this way, they can take the Turkish port at Aqaba from the rear.

Having carried out the superhuman feat of traversing this furnace, it is discovered that one of the Arabs, Gasim, has fallen off his camel and is no doubt dying somewhere back in the desert. Lawrence is told that any idea of rescue is futile and, in any event, Gasim's death is "written". When Lawrence achieves the impossible and returns with Gasim still alive, Sherif Ali admits to him: "Truly, for some men nothing is written unless they write it".

As an impressionable teenager when this film was first released, I was stunned by Lawrence's courage and unselfishness in going back into the hell of the Nefud to attempt to find a man he hardly knew among the vast expanse of a fiery terrain and I was so moved by the sense of purpose of a man who is determined to take nothing as "written" but to shape his own destiny.

This sense of anti-determinism and this belief that anything is possible has stayed with me always and continues to inspire me in small ways and large.

Author: Roger Darlington


Absolutely nothing is set in stone. Today is a new day, a NEW start.
Do NOT listen to those who use words like "can't" or "too hard", they are full of fear and fear is a very infectious disease.

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