:: Captain's Personal Blog ::

Stardate: Thursday, March 14, 2002

In a Spiderman comic I just read, Peter Parker quotes a book that HE read which states that: "The key to success is to get our of bed with a smile--that's half the battle won. The other half is to be an honest enough person that you can fall asleep again at the end of the day."

Tha fact of the matter is that I can do those things. I do them every day. I may have had problems sleeping in the past, but that had nothing to do with honesty. It had simply to do with stress.

My boss once gave us a mini-poster with the following on it:

Press On

Nothing in the world can take the place of PERSISTENCE.

TALENT WILL NOT: Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

GENIUS WILL NOT: Unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

EDUCATION ALONE WILL NOT: The world is full of educated derelicts.

PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION ALONE ARE OMNIPOTENT.

Bearing all of that in mind, how can one NOT be optimistic about the future. If all of that is true, I will one day be a truly successful person. Why am I harping on this, and why are all my posts of late taking on a rather morbid twist. I usually pride myself on at least being positive. Maybe it's because I can't shake the feeling that I am somehow, in someway, shooting myself in the foot. I don't know what it is....but whatever it is, it's weird and I can't seem to shake it.


:: J 10:30 AM [+] ::
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