Robert Flinkman

Robert Flinkman
Cornfields
lino block cut on Stonehenge paper
9" X 12"
1993
copyright 1993 Robert Flinkman

June 14th, 1993           Monday

As for myself I only wish I had someone to stand beside me here, to help and believe in me. Hasn't this been a plea throughout this journal? Will it be answered? I don't know, I don't understand, isn't good rewarded and evil punished, isn't it? In the end, when all is said and done, doesn't truth and goodness emerge triumphant - doesn't it? I still believe in that, I do. What you put out in life is what you'll get back. I do believe in that active type of karma. Ultimately I do feel that with all that I create, with all that I will have experienced, I do believe that I will help someone. If not now, then later, in going through all that I've created in my artwork and with what I've written here in this journal, someone at sometime, somewhere, will glean some important example here - don't give up, forge ahead, keep on going, develop in yourself whatever talents or constructive abilities you may that help you deal with and appreciate life. Hard as the going may be, even if you falter, pick yourself up and keep on going. However hard periods in life may be, they don't go on forever. Life just is, and it's our responsibility to seek out the beauty in it, the laughter, the kindness, the joy. We do have that ability, we do have the free will to deal with life as we choose. We can't always control what happens to us, but we do have the ability as to how we deal with it. One would think, well, I am a good person, all my intentions are good, I do good things, why do bad things happen to me? Regardless of what you may face, retain that goodness, hold on to it, that will be your strength, your compass. So many people have no guidelines at all, no values, no direction, no compass. These are the ones that create the most harm, to themselves and to others. With aim and purpose in life, you forge ahead, you have your sights set on a goal, and have little time for pettiness or immaturity. I know somehow that what I have done with my life, what I am doing now and will continue to do, will serve a good purpose. What is good, creative, constructive, based on truth will survive and last.
Each of us has so much incredible potential to do something creative with our lives - why do so many people choose instead to harm and destroy? I don't know, I don't know. I just don't understand........