Wait for the key, or pick the lock?

They say patience is the key to success, yet it seems to me that every time I manage to get patient, I am running out of time. So often I just end up fighting time in order to somehow make myself believe that I am on the path to success, but I am simply not just waiting for success to happen to me. Because I do not think it can just happen if I wait patiently, I think that I need to make it happen. All of it is in my hands. I don’t need to find this key; I can make it and then finally unlock the end door. Or maybe I just need to learn how to pick the lock.

Is that cheating? Taking the easier way to the destination? Are there such rules in this game? I wouldn’t think so; the game seems kind of open-ended if it is simply the game of life. None of us start at the same place, so why does it have to be that all of us take the same path to the end? That just puts those of us farther back at a terrible disadvantage. If that is the case, then what is the fun? Where is the competition? Where is that fear that will not let us sleep at night? Do all of these achievements, then simply mean nothing.

So why not give shortcuts a try? What is the worst that could happen? Somebody calls you a cheater; they would probably do that anyway if you did something better than them. Sometimes a shortcut is just doing exactly what other people are not. Because people have the tendency to wait, if you don't wait as long as they do, maybe you get there before the door opens. And that means you’ll automatically be there when it does. So take a chance, take the risk, and take the path others will fear taking.

It’s ironic that I am saying all of this when I am scared of almost every next step I am going to take, yet does that stop me from taking it? No, it doesn’t. Plus, it is much more fun to do something when you are scared of doing it. It feels exactly the same as being excited.