Stars or crap

The way I see it allpaths in life lead the same place.... DEATH. So the true value in life is not where we end up but rather how we get there. This is not some long blog about Christian or non Christian, Jew or Catholic. BUt rather more of a worldly post about who and what you choose to be.

For every opportunity to succeed there exists the oppotunity to fail. The only way to avoid failure is to never try - what kind of life would that be.

I love the poster - "It is better to aim for the stars and miss than to aim for a pile of crap and hit it."

The greatest thing standing in the way of aiming for the stars is that we know that more than likely we will miss, and it is very hard to predict where we will actually land when we do miss. The thing is if you aim for the pile of crap right in front of you I think we all know exactly where you're going to end up.

Now don't get me a wrong, I am not a glory hound or adrenilin junkie - out chasing every moment of glory I can find. I live a very conservative life, in many ways I think I neither aimed for the stars or the pile of crap... I often pointed my arrow skywards and hesitated to let it fly.

But I know deep down inside that I am living a life without regrets. I am not famous, I have not found glory and riches. But I have pride in who I have become, I a have an amazing wife and four beautiful children. I spend my days helping others learn and achieve. I help them to aim for more than what lies before them.

I do not pity the astronauts that have died in balls of fire, I do not pity those rock stars and actors that have watched theirs lives implode around them, I do not pity the nascar driver the hits the wall doing 224mph, I do not pity the mother that dies in child birth. Their deaths cause me saddness, but I do not pity them. I pity the person that watches their life wither away, never knowing if their dreams were the reality that were just around the corner.

I would rather die in a ball of fire, than live in an abyss of nothingness.