Coasting

Why is it that we tend to settle down and live simple mediocre lifestyles when we are meant for so much more? We have all the potential in the world to do anything we may set our mind too, yet most of the human population settles. As children everyone has these huge dreams of wanting to become an astronaut, a president, a proffesional athlete/olympian, a lawyer etc. But so few people actually become these things. So few people follow through with their dreams and goals because they get so caught up in life they forget to live it. So they settle for the mundane.

I recently had my eyes opened to the fact that I have spent the last year of my life just coasting through. Doing the bare minimum and not using my abilities and talents to their full potential. I was settling for normal, average, below par, or whatever other adjective you may want to use to describe it. I was doing this in every aspect of life: my schoolwork, my social life, reaching for my dreams, and using my abilities. I can do so much better, but why did I seemingly settle? Why settle for the insignificant? Why settle for C's instead of A's? Why settle for less than what I can actually acheive? Why did I allow myself to fall into the human pattern of getting so overwhelmed with life and all it entails that I forgot to actually live? I may never know the answer to that question; however, I do know that it will not happen again. I have the potential to become anyone or do anything I want. I have the ability to change the world. So instead of coasting through life and letting it pass me by I have every intention of living it.

So ask yourself the same question. What is it that you really want? Are you living up to your full potential, or are you settling? Are you so caught up with life that you are no longer living?