#winstherace

If we should deliver a thing, be it a statement, an action or otherwise; if we deliver it with conviction and that conviction intimidates, it is said that we are “too full on”.

If we set out on the same journey with only a pinch of gusto and a fumbling disregard, it is supposed that we're then “half hearted”.

It is somewhere between these two mistaken polar opposite destinations that the majority will have you believe a “happy medium” exists; and it just so happens, in advice, that they're currently sat righteously upon that throne themselves.

I don't think dull people with “medium” ambitions should feel comfortable attempting to justify pissing on another mans parade, especially since it more times than otherwise seems to be based entirely of what the critique themselves are actually capable of, rather then for want of anothers best interests. Nobody likes to be shown up and I think that's the only motivation.

I've always in this context substituted the “medium” component of the idea with “mediocre”. I'm not a fan of the maximum speed of a sloth. I'd argue that the “happily mediocre” people, who'd rather pass you off as a bit much merely for having a disposition they're either too arrogant or too linear to achieve, would be best met with a healthy dose of the same advise in reverse and to the contrary.

I'm here to tell you that whoever impressed upon you that slow and steady wins the race was actually full of shit. The concept of patience when applied passively to life ceases being a virtue and instead becomes inherit. At no point did anyone mean for you to walk in place of running if running meant you'd have the upper hand. 

Perhaps it's best to look at it as your life being the walk. You know you're slowly but surely meeting the maker at some point and we can do nothing to mitigate that. We can argue health and other factors within reason, but luck doesn't spare anyone. We can merely presume to "assist" thew process, but the walk continues regardless. So if our life is the arduous walk, the one definitive & positive constant; does it not then make sense to do as much as possible, I mean everything within your power -  to experience as much of it in all of its facets as humanely possible?. 

Life is precious. We are not here long, and the years fall off faster & faster. The things we look back and wish that we might have done, or what might have become...

I'd like to look back and feel comfortable knowing I gave the walk of life a pretty good run for its money.