If all goes to plan, in ten years I will be happily married with a couple of kids settling down in the suburbs. If all goes to plan, I’ll be financially secure and living a comfortable lifestyle. If all goes to plan, I’ll be very content with my life. But is being “content” good enough? What up’s and down’s, excitements and downfalls will I forgo living life according to my “plan book.” The last thing I want is to look back at my life with regret, knowing that I could have done great but settled for alright. I don’t want to live my life afraid of risks; rather I want to live my life embracing risks.
I truly respect men who live with a greater vision and a sense of purpose. As RFK said, “Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital, quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change.”
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I have absolutely no idea what the next three weeks have in store for me, but I know this for certain, I’ll never look back ten years from now and wonder what could have been.
(written 8/6/07)
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