And they aren't even trying. I'm going to steal a paragraph from one of my friend's blog for an example. In this paragraph, she was explaining something about herself that was so much like me, I couldn't help but wonder if we're spiritual twins or something.
"I think of all the things I could do if I really applied myself like the people in history that you hear stories about. The kind of people that start at the bottom but out-work everyone else until they get to the top. I'm the kind of person that floats around in the middle because I'm talented enough to get by, but not motivated enough to push myself to the top. That's a pretty picture.. Sigh. I've always been a floater."
Every night I lay in bed thinking about all the things I could have done, and the things that I could do, if I would only just do it. I could have been a 4.0 student in high school. I could have aced every single one of my AP tests and more. I could have joined the softball team and done well. I could have been first chair flute. I could get a job. I could ace every class I have at this moment without problems (actually, I am). I could make lots of new friends. I could get active and run in some sort of marathon. I could become an expert archer. I could become so great a writer that my first novel will become a best-seller.
I could do all of those things and more. I just don't have enough motivation to do so. The last one, however, I am actually working on. Not as hard as I could be working on, but harder than anything else, including school.
It's interesting that I could be the best at a lot of things, I could do extremely well in most things...I just chose not to do it.
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