I Can Achieve

I can’t convey to you what it takes to lead a life I wish to live. But in my heart, within the depths of my very being, I know what kind of life I want to live. I want to be able to look back at all that I have done and be able to say I have achieved a life only dreamers can dream of. It is hard for me to say that I have done well at anything because I am by far harder on myself than anyone could ever imagine. I’m not good at taking compliments, especially from myself. But when my time comes, when the rubber no longer touches the road but the eyes look to the sky and witnesses the inspiration I have been waiting for. When a man no longer sees the present for he sees the past he has created, the love he has shown, the friendships he has made, and the lives he has changed drastically beyond the vision of his own eyes, I will finally know why I have this intention, this motivation to achieve greatness. I have this passion, drive, overriding desire to witness something no simple man of this world can believe to behold with their own fading vision. The men of this world are losing this desire. They have let trivial and stupid interests take over their minds like money, pornography, sexuality, and envy and many others take hold of the sub-conscious. No longer do men think for themselves for if they did the desire I posses would resonate from the inside out. Sadly I, myself, only feel the slight yet unmistakable touch of this desire. It only resonates when my own fading eyes witness the desire and passion emit from my fellow man. Only then does it respond and bellow from my heart, my spirit. The mind is only as strong as God will let it be, the body is only as strong as you make it, and the heart is strongest when it feels love. But the spirit is limitless. The strength of the spirit relies on the strength of all of these. Don’t let the spirit fail or else the mind goes gray, the body goes limp and the heart feels the cold embrace of loneliness. Don’t let your hearts deepest desire to achieve greatness go unwitnessed.

-Dan Beal