There is a thin line...

There is a thin line separating the man who learns to
      be content with all he has,
          and the man who accepts a fate of which he deserves
              far better.

This is how an intelligent man might find himself at a
      place in middle age, which he should have passed
          far in his youth.

How is it that every person does not meet their dreams?
      I do not know, yet having that middle-aged man
          in my future is also not impossible.

If a person waits for the opportunity to become
      who he was designed to be, he will likely miss it, for
   every day is that opportunity... every decision, every moment...

              but we let all these pass us by, because we
      await the opportunity that will take itself and push
          us to greatness.

      But my friend, that opportunity will not come, so
take hold of the opportunity which sits patiently at
    your feet, every hour of every day, for it cannot do
      the job without you.
                                - end -

        - February 18, 2006