coasting through an average life when you could have an extraordinary life if you just apply yourself?
Is it the STRIVING that matters more than the succeeding?
It's been said that life is a test, nothing but a test. We're here to prove ourselves worthy of a more exalted life. I think of this life as a giant school. When we're young we're in grade school/elementary school. When we're teens and don't know what the heck is going on, but have a pretty good idea that things are changing, it's like we're in middle school/junior high. When we're adults it's like we're in high school, and some particularly bright, wise "students" go on to college but there aren't many who do so (I'm thinking those who change the world, the great thinkers and doers in the history of the world). Judgement is like graduation, where we find out where we'll spend eternity. There will be those who were A students, B students, C students, and a very few who didn't pass.
If you have the potential to be
2007-04-12
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Tonya in TX - Duck
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