"THINK ABOUT IT"

 


Once upon a time when a middle-aged man was clearing the rubbish out of an attice, he discovered an old notebook he had kept as a boy. There it was, it's pages discolored by years of attic dust, but bearing the plans he had set down so many years ago for himself. Great things to be done, definite ways for doing them. A life that would count. A name with which to reckon. The man sat down on the stairs and slowly read each page, without the heart to throw the notebook away, for it was a biography of the man he meant to be, of the man he might have been. Why didn't youth's dreams become accomplishments in later years? Because he measured his efforts and rewards by those of other men, not by his own abilities, desires and dreams. There is no limit to what a man can accomplish, as long as he believes he can.

"Across the fields of yesterday, he sometimes comes to me:
A little lad just back from play, the lad I used to be
And yet he smiles so wistfully, once he has crept within,
I wonder if he hopes to see the man I might have been."

The ability to dream of great achievements was not given to us to mock us. The fact that once we were inspired to believe that the high road to success is the right road is evidence that we possess the ability to climb that road.

We can bring back those old dreams of hoped for achievement and place them once more in command! Then through planned activity we can call out the force of potential power and make our dreams come true.


From "A Collection of Inpirational Verses"