For the Journey

Tonight, I was inducted into the National junior Honor Society. The follow was read at the end of the ceremony to 'inspire' us.

A Wish for Leaders

I sincerely wish you will have the experience of thinking up a new idea, planning it, organizing it, and following it to completion, and then have it be magnificently successful.

I also hope you'll go through the same process, and have something fall apart.

I wish you could know how it feels to "run" with all your heart... and lose... horribly.

I wish that you could achieve some great good for humankind, but have nobody know about it except for you.

I wish that you could find something so worthwhile that you deem it worthy of investing you like within it.

I hope you become frustrated and challenged enough to begin to push back the very barriers of your own limitations.

I hopw you make a stupid mistake and get caught red-handed, and are big enough to say those magic words, "I was wrong."

I hope you give so much of yourself that some days you wonder if it's worth the effort.

I wish for you a magnificent obsession that will give you reason for living and purpose and direction in life.

I wish for you the worst kink of criticism for everything you do, because that makes you fight to achieve beyond what you normally would.

Why didn't they just say, "I wish you would lay down, die, and have no one know?