MUST TURN KNOB TO OPPORTUNITY
By OLIVENE GODFREY
We're all familiar with the quotation by Chamfort:"Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door." And Samuel Johnson wrote: "To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."
As we grow older most of can look back and see that opportunity does knock more than once in our lives. But rarely does it knock more more than once at the same door. That is, we have different opportunities for different situations. For instance, suppose that one of your ancestors had been offered stock in the Coca-Cola company in the late 1800s when the company was formed and they neglected to take that opportunity. It's doubtful that particular opportunity knocked twice at that door.
We miss much by not accepting the choices we still have.
"If only" and "I wish" are over used expressions by most of us. Too often we refuse to recognize the volume of opportunities open to us. Someone said that all of life is not free, but there's much available for our personal selection.
Robert Louis Stevenson said, " Give me a young man with brains enough to make a fool of himself." He didn't mean intentionally acting foolish but one who would dare to stand on his own chances of winning or losing, to step outside the realms of what others might call foolish.
See you next time.
By OLIVENE GODFREY
We're all familiar with the quotation by Chamfort:"Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door." And Samuel Johnson wrote: "To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life."
As we grow older most of can look back and see that opportunity does knock more than once in our lives. But rarely does it knock more more than once at the same door. That is, we have different opportunities for different situations. For instance, suppose that one of your ancestors had been offered stock in the Coca-Cola company in the late 1800s when the company was formed and they neglected to take that opportunity. It's doubtful that particular opportunity knocked twice at that door.
We miss much by not accepting the choices we still have.
"If only" and "I wish" are over used expressions by most of us. Too often we refuse to recognize the volume of opportunities open to us. Someone said that all of life is not free, but there's much available for our personal selection.
Robert Louis Stevenson said, " Give me a young man with brains enough to make a fool of himself." He didn't mean intentionally acting foolish but one who would dare to stand on his own chances of winning or losing, to step outside the realms of what others might call foolish.
See you next time.
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