How To Stand

I would rather spend a lifetime trying and failing, again and again, then cast myself upon an existence of mediocrity. For in settling, simply to avoid the challenges of finding the great reward, and having to stand strong against the chaos and opposition that reward may embody, would prove a more unforgiving failure, than that if I had tried. The only certain reward in settling is regret.

I am willing to sacrifice and to risk, in order that my reply may be- "to live"! if I am ever asked what I have learned when I am eighty. Those who dream may crash to the ground over and over, but those who live with their feet planted firmly on the ground will never reach the sky. I am not afraid to fall. For it is only through learning to fall, that I have taught myself how to stand.