When I was younger, my dad would take us to a local swimming pool. Like many pools, there was a low-dive and a high-dive that we enjoyed jumping off of. But this pool was different in one particular way. High above the high-dive was the "Platform" there is probably an actual name for it but the platform wasn't even a diving board. It was a long runway leading to an inevitable free fall that left you breathless. Those who dared to jump off the platform, had to first, make it up the long set of stairs. This was a trek of self-doubt and self-reflection. Only those who found the courage on the way up, managed to jump. Those who let fear get the best of them, arrived at the top only to descend back down the stairs with only dreams of what might have been...
Great Opportunity is a platform, towering above us. And the path leading up to it is the choices we have to make. Sometimes, those choices, the climb towards the opportunity to do something great, are scary and riddled with self doubt, fear and worst case scenario thinking. But, for those with a drive to experience something special, the desire outweighs the fear, and opportunity is realized.
Not all opportunity, is a perfect swan dive, or splash-less entry. There will still be belly-flops and back-slaps. But you will walk away able to say, "I did that".
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