My Prime Is Always Today and Tomorrow

"You can be anything you want to be."
"Shoot for the stars."
"America is the land of opportunity, where a person always has a chance as long as they have an idea."

Those are a couple of generic quotes that I'm sure we've heard in some version for a very long time.  In the United States, many of us are practically raised hearing these things.  Yet at some point most of us cease to believe in them any more.  We give in to the monotony of life, and the belief that good enough is enough.  We succumb to the every day, we become drones, and we follow the same routine with the same dreams without the desire to break free.  I refuse to do so, and I hope you do too. 

The world needs dreamers.  Maybe the dreams won't come true, but if enough of us are trying to break the mold with visions that will enhance and impact the world around us, then surely some of those dreams will become "dream come trues" for all the rest.  Why should we ever give in to the "same old same old"?  Nothing drives me more crazy than to hear that high school or college are the best days of your life.  "Alright then," I think... "I guess it's all down hill from there."

But it's not.  It doesn't have to be. 

Every day is a new adventure - every week a new chance to set an objective and to go for it.  There are enough people who are satisfied.  I don't think I will ever be satisfied, and I don't want to be.  My prime is today.  My prime is tomorrow.  It will never be in the past, because I will always be a sentient, conscious person moving forward to a brighter future whether in this world or the next.  Yesterday is gone, but I have today and I'm being gifted tomorrow.  Why waste them?  So life hasn't always treated me fairly - why throw in the towel?  So tomorrow may be hard - why give in?  So life in this moment is painful - isn't pain fleeting? Who is to say that my silver ship won't go sailing tomorrow?  We don't plant splendorous oak trees today - we plant saplings.  But those saplings in time turn into grandiose canopies of green, towering up and over us.  But if we do not plant now, in time we will see no fruition from our lack of effort.

"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -- Walt Disney 

 

"I am not afraid to fail, I am afraid to not try." -- Michael Jordan

 

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move." -- Benjamin Franklin

Be passionate,

Jusin Frazier