John Steinbeck once wrote that "man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments."
One does not simply enter into this world and have no destiny ahead of him, no light or path to follow, no person's footsteps to trace, no future ahead of them. We are the caretakers of our lives, of our futures. It is simply up to us to determine whether or not to exceed our expectations or to diminish in the shadows of them. When one pass to the next life one shouldn't die in the shadows of what he could've been or what he was at a moment of his life.
To emerge ahead of our accomplishments means to simply be greatness, be better than your foe, be great in all that you do so that you can emerge ahead of the goals which you have set in this life and don't fall short.
"There is a tide in the affairs of men.
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat,
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures."
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