The Brilliant and The Unaccomplished

Some of us strive each day to be our best selves, pushing our boundaries a little bit more each day. Of course, there are ups and downs. Some days are a few steps forward, others several steps back, and still some days are like quicksand, stuck in place, feeling like you are sinking — but if you just stop struggling and get through it, you will find your way out. This is what it feels like to be fully grown yet still new to the world.

Graduated a mere few months ago, there is an imminent pressure to achieve some sort of brilliance. It is as if as graduates we spent our last roughly four years taking swimming lessons and then suddenly once we learned all we could inside the pool, were suddenly dropped into the open ocean. We know how to swim inside the lane with ease, but now where do we go? The possibilities are endless and the task is full of risks but if you just start swimming, chances are you will eventually reach the shore. While you’re at it, maybe you will stop, turn on your back, and look up at the sky long enough to take it all in and realize how far you have actually come.

So we may still feel unaccomplished but we have sure come a long way and we are all most certainly a little bit brilliant. In reality, each one of us holds some piece of brilliance in us whether we know it or not. We manifest our own personal talents differently, uniquely. Some approve of the way we show it and others do not. But it is there, a spark within us if only we kindle the flame.