When Bob Feller, outstanding pitcher for the Cleveland Indians said this, I’m sure he didn’t recognize how far-reaching it was, or how it could encourage others. Here’s what this pitcher from 1930-the 1950’s said: “The world is full of opportunities waiting to be seized.”
Every inventor knows this, whether he is striving to invent something spectacular, or he stumbles on his invention while attempting to do something else, perhaps totally unexpected.
It seems to me that the guiding principle here is the insight to predict or to recognize the importance of the opportunity. How many times have we just not observed things intently. It’s the difference between seeing and looking, hearing and listening, learning and knowing, attempting and trying, and consuming and tasting. It’s the degree to which we engage in the experience which counts.
Some of us like peanuts; George Washington Carver lived peanuts. Some of us read; others of us consume the written word as a passion.
With the whole world at our fingertips on our personal computers or hand-held devices, why are we mere humans content to just text gibberish or ask our friends, “Whazup?”
I urge us to seize the opportunities around us and live life fully. Will you join me in living rather than merely existing?
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