Life

Alright so we all know that life is called a journey, but today on my run i decided to take the analogy a step further.
So i thought to myself we always describe life as walking forward, but life isnt that simple.
One can travel down the road of life in any direction that one chooses, and not just at a walk, but a run, skip, leap, crawl, and some even ride or drive down the road we call life.

Life isn't defined by the road trip, life is defined by the stops we make, which motels, and monuements, and colleges we stop at on our way to the final stop.

People don't remember the road we take, they only remember the stops. When people look at Herbert Hoover's policy during the great depression they dont see a man who had made himself from mothing trying not to destroy that part of america, they see a man who couldnt understand that one must help the people directly and that trickle down economics dont work.

A Great person is not defined by their stops however, a great person should be defined by what in their lives road led them to these great achievement

The basis for any great achievement should be why a person did it. to be truly great, a great achievement should have great reason behind it. Helping people because u too were once poor and homeless, not because you want people to see you as a giving person

Too often people who have the potential for greatness settle for mediocrity whether for own disbelief in themselves or someone else's disbelief in their ability, and this fear that they are in someway unable to achieve greatness plants the seeds of mediocrity

Then comes the fear that in failing to be great one will lose even their chances for mediocrity, and so with these fears banging about in their head, one sets out a safe unscary path set into the depths of normalcy and mediocrity where they can be forgotten forever.
But to do so is to sacrifice a gift, a talent, and no reason, to avoid failure, to stay with friends, to not make people feel bad is worth sacrificing one chance to be truly great, to truly help the world, and accept mediocrity.

This is not to say that mediocrity is not fine, it is to say that those who are destined for greatness much achieve it for not all are given the gifts nor the desire to reach it, but those her are, should not let anything stand in the way of their quest for greatness!