Seek Greatness

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Seize the Day

Live your Life trying to obtain greatness for without such, life is senseless and as such is wasted on the sin of mediocrity. In life, people often set their sights on goals that they know can be achieved, that they know are attainable; they do this so that when they finally reach that goal or end result, regardless of what they had to do in order to get they can feel as if they accomplished something. However, if a person sets out to accomplish a goal that they know they will one day attain, then I must ask, ?What is the purpose of pursuing it?? For obtaining a moderate goal, is common and is surly no way to become Great. Greatness is only achieved when you focus your sights towards achieving a goal that no one believes to be obtainable, a goal that you yourself question as to whether or not you can in fact reach it. So, Be Different; don?t follow the path of the majority or live you life trying to meet expectations. Instead live trying to surpass all of life?s boundaries and every person living within them. Live your life ignoring the group comforted with their strength-in-numbers, the group that teases and ridicules you; for one day, far from now, shortly after you reach your goals, you will look back at all of the things that were said to be impossible, the things which you have since accomplished, and you will smile with pride. Your face will light up from ear-to-ear as you look back and see that the group of people once laughing at you and your ?foolish aspirations,? the people that you chose not to run with, the people that never even made an attempt at anything more, that just accepted society?s place for them, are now the same people will die not ever having known any sense of true accomplishment; they will die not ever knowing what it feels like to soar above and beyond- not ever knowing what it feels like to be great. So in life aim high, set your sights on that which seems unattainable, because shooting at and hitting the targets that are in the plain sight of all- doesn't count for anything. What counts in life is greatness, and that can only be achieved if people live for themselves doing everything possible to break through the common mold of society and eventually make their own- because that is what greatness really is.

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Wally Smith's picture

This is pretty inspirational.
I had a principal tell me once, "you think you'll do it alone, but you won't." She was a wise woman. People need each other to succeed and get by.
That's my proviso to your poem.