Intend

Intend: to have as one's purpose or objective.

The intentions of any given person are often the most interesting thing about them. What we accomplish in life is all too often mediocre or slightly above average. The day to day is boring and unremarkable. But our intentions, our aspirations, our hopes for what we might be and do, these are the things that show others who we are. These immeasurable notions of "maybe" form our character and shape our souls.

This is not to say that action is not needed, that wishful thinking is enough to attain any sort of satisfaction. Those that sit on the bench and declare that they would have done something with their life, if only the opportunity had presented itself are doomed to wait idly for the universe to present them with an open door, an easy road, a catalyst to scoop them out of their pit of inaction.

Soaring intentions can be painful. The intentions of the average person can far outdistance their capabilities. This is not always a shortcoming. It may set us up for failure to a certain extent, but the idea should always remain that we ought to reach, and stretch, and dream for more than is thought to be possible. To be limited by what is possible, what has already been done, is to be forever confined by the past. We are not meant to see what has been done as a limit, but as a starting point for our own endeavors.