Greatness

Greatness

Do you remember when it mattered? When it was important? Do you remember mustering the courage to face it? Do you remember the butterflies? Dreams? Motivations?

Do you recall staying up late dreaming about it? Living, and breathing for it? Working for it? Starving for it?

Did you quit when they said you can't? Did you stop when they laughed at you? Or did it make you mad?

Did you just give in? Or did you let that anger forge you into something better? Did you galvanize all of the pain to be better still? Stronger?

I remember when it mattered. I remember constantly swimming upstream toward that something. Then I remembered the distance. The distance slowly growing. I remember short comings identified by those I valued and treasured most. In an instant, Teflon became glue. I remember sinking...... Down and downward still.

I blame no-one but myself. Others views, no matter how close should never serve as deterrent. It was said that when Ali knocked out Sonny that it wasn't so much the force of the blow; rather the blow he didn't see coming. Truth.

In an instant you no longer live in can and can't. You have been removed to indifference. Placed in not wanting to. Why bother? This is the danger in living for others.

Still, we are social creatures. Are we not? So I suppose Greatness can be defined by the knock-out. The strong visceral image of Ali standing over Sonny.

However, Greatness gets up. Greatness wipes the blood off it's chin and goes forward. Greatness believes. Greatness doesn't give up.

Even in the pitch darkness where nothingness lurks and despair cries out in hapless vain; greatness claws strongly forward. Crawling, even stumbling forward with a faith unseen and a sense of self reliance. Greatness finds a way. I don't know how, when, or why. I simply believe in

Greatness