Late Bloomer

Ninety days out of Pagosa Springs Colorado. A clean three months, 12 weeks! Not all that long. I hope I live to see it. The grandeur of the San Juan River Valley. TravelBlogs are an especially boring brand of blog so I won't go into it but to say, it ain't half bad in Sunny Pagosa Springs Co.

The day I woke up and realized that I was average was a painful day. I thought that I probably would not ever win a Nobel, or a Pulitzer. I realized I would not be in the Olympics. I came to the jarring insight that I was average height, weight, intelligence...average everything. After a shudder of sadness and a kind of desperation I was overtaken by a complete sense of calm. The relief of not having to be accomplished freed me to finally pursue something with abandon.

Very accomplished people have a mixture of qualities. One of these important qualities apart from luck is drive. That is one trait of which I am quite below average. It simply is not my temperament. But like the small boy who did not speak until he was four because he had nothing to say, I have never had any real drive for anything because nothing seemed worth driving at. Horses changed that. The video below is my beginning liberty about Oct.2009.