In childhood, we begin to aspire and admire. We get vivid
ideas about who we wish to be when we grow up. A favorite question used by many
for interaction with the youngsters, “what would like to be when you grow up?"
The answers to this questions change as technology evolves and as centuries
advance. A few years ago, anything suggesting art, was a no gone zone for a
future career aspiration. Now thanks to the success either painted or present
through the media of various artists, it is slowly being accepted in the career
booklet. Mentors are embraced early and watched to draw a path for those that
term them as head light. Kids will work hard maintaining a nest in their
thoughts for their mentors. The mentors’ success footprints become their
success trail. They share in their moment of glory at heart and master their
biographies in mind.
All this is good and maybe necessary in life but only to
some extent. The shining part of all these mentors is the only part posted for
the public eye to catch, the mind to envy and the hearts to feel. However, the
dark and ugly, the hitches along the way, the constant failures and the lessons
learned are not aired. I think that this is the most important side of the
story because success is the end of the sentence which one can’t get to before
writing the beginning and the middle.
What happened to the fact that every person is unique? A
personality that may only be similar to another but not entirely alike, a mind
that almost chooses thoughts like another but different still even if just
slightly, a heart that experiences similar emotions to many others but treats
them in a somehow different way unlike many. With this in mind, although we
admire certain personalities in life and wish to take their chosen path of
life, we can not entirely turn out just like them. We may want to fellowship in
their career path, want to mingle with their social responsibilities and even
lift the same crowns of success that they do and sit on the thrones of heroes
just like them, but we have to define our own trail.
They should or can be our inspiration so that when we look
at their achievement during our journey to our discoveries, we strive on. If we
cave ourselves in only on them and theirs, we may actually limit ourselves. We
could probably achieve more if we focus on beyond what our mentors did, are
doing or would do. Within us is unique potential, granted in a skillful way to
every individual. The feeble and impatient hardly get to discover this because
they live through life looking for short cuts. The imitators sit on potential
through life they would rather what is already found, cleaned and displayed.
Only the strong willed, focused and tolerant live to behold their full
potential and at sun set, theirs is called a full life. These live to graduate
to mentors. But no mentor is exactly like any other. They may have similar
success stories but with different trails.
Appoint a mentor to your mind and heart, admire them and
aspire to be like them. Let them encourage you with their achievements; remember
to read into their challenges and failures too. But most of all, remember to define your own trail
and you will get there eventually.
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