Whatever relationships you have attracted in your life at this moment, are precisely the ones you need in your life at this moment. There is a hidden meaning behind all events, and this hidden meaning is serving your own evolution.

Deepak Chopra (via hallucinationsofthemind)

(Source: creativedreadhead, via insearchofthebeautiful)

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Settling

This is most likely the most horrid word in existence, encompassing a large part of what I detest in life, for this notion begins in hope and ends in fear. A young boy aspires to greatness in youth and falls into the grave content with a life of safe mediocrity, the life he settled with.  

In youth, a boy peers forward, void of the lingering horror of failure, opening his mind to the possibility of the unhindered what if. This hope is pure and great, likely the most primal and valuable trait of the human species. It is what makes way for the creative spark, innovation, progress. As the boy grows, this hope becomes tainted with doubts, doubts bestowed by society; tarnishing and scaring, warping a once beautiful ideal into a false happiness.

He no longer believes he will walk on the moon, but content to settle with walking into his suburban mansion.

He no longer listens to what truly brings happiness, but content to settle with two-weeks of vacation.

This boy has accepted his intelligence, background, ideology, life, has set permanent parameters on his future. These walls are inspired by fear, fear of failure. Once this is established, he is a slave to expectations and will never surpass them, settling with what is acceptable and the little happiness that accompanies it.

I will not accept this fate, I look to the future with wide eyes of hope. I remind myself that life is happiness; I just have to step aside and look around. Everyone owes themselves the promise of hope, the ability to fight the seductive comfort of mediocrity.

When society teaches us that the long shot is the wrong choice, we will never know the length of the shot.  

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