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Excluding extreme circumstances, I have come to understand that opportunity is a mythical creature.  It will not come to knock on your door, you will not find it in your travels.  You may search far and wide, but it will not be hiding, waiting to be found.  Do not look for opportunity, rather look for yourself.  Ask not how the world will change you; change should be resolute and with purpose. Change is not manifested upon command, it comes slowly, after reflection and understanding. Instead, ask yourself how it is that you will alter the world, such that it will take a different, a better path. You are but a small quantum of energy; but you are the product of billions of years of cosmological and biological evolution, and what you do today, will certainly resonate into the billions of years ahead, and possibly, eternity.  This much must be true within the confines of logic.  There is, of course, the exception that proves the rule, the glaring contradiction.  You have but one opportunity, and it has already been given to you.  Make it count for something that you can be proud of.  These are just my thoughts on paper, so to speak.  As always, I remain excited to learn, prepared to change, and aware of my fallibility.  But until next time, please live long.  

Spatter