Salute!

There are those who have lived their
lives going where life has taken them.
Passively responding to what seems to
happen to them, stifling curiosity,
unfamiliar with aspirations, simply fitting
themselves in, sideways, backwards,
fully frontal; no misgivings, trusting that
some kind fate awaits them, a kindly
overseer directing the stage and they,
obeying, stage left, stage right, until they
leave that stage, without fully inhabiting it.

And then. There are those whose
numbers shrink before the masses who
move with the flow of their determined
lives, represented by an entirely different
impetus. Wholly their own construction.
Laboriously fashioned of materials whose
function, mode and presentation remains
unknown to the others - the sleeping
life-walkers. Completed purpose eludes.

They few, piqued and driven by curiosity
the mystique of life and nature, seek
answers and advantage their lives by
exerting themselves to explore ideas,
relationships, and the entire world of
curious but rewarding quests. Developing
boldly consummate skills in their forthright
meeting of challenges of the mind and those
of knowing the elements of existence.
Carefully parting the curtains of placid
disinterest to reveal the goal of self.