You are the kids who never studied in school because you didn't need to, who made A's, B's, and C's because you were smart enough to coast through anything modern education had to throw at you. You conquered the system and you knew it. Why suck up to teachers when you're all going to be going to college or working soon anyway? Why focus on being popular when you won't see these people again after two or three years, right? Yeah, /b/, that's you. That's me, too. Life is good and easy, isn't it?
Well, it is, and that's the problem. To be satisfied with what is good is to never become what is great. You all know this.
Im talking to you as an individual. The kid sitting behind his computer screen right now, wasting his time on /b/ because it gives him a laugh, puts him in his comfort zone, and tells him that everything is going to be okay, that life is good and that he need not worry about following his dreams, whatever they may be, because he's got all he needs right here. The kid who is smarter and more motivated than all of his friends, but who hasn't yet stepped up to show them.
But he can change. It all begins with a decision, and all that decision takes is a little courage. /b/, you have it all but courage. It is the greatest virtue, because without it none of the other virtues can ever come to life. If a loving man does not have the courage to love, he will never love, and if a smart man never has the courage to reason, he will never do so. Whatever you are, /b/, the loving man, the smart man, the hateful man, the passionate man.. the aspiring musician, artist, politician, philosopher, supermodel.. all you need is courage, because you've already got everything else.
It takes strength to do these things, /b/, but the equation is simple, and the variables are there. All you need to do is utilize them. Emotional fitness, psychological strength.
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Obviously, directed towards /b/, but you get the point.
