I am fine with close……

I prefer to succeed of course like everyone else does.  But to some degree I think I need to have the frustration of never truly getting to where I was trying to get.  Never quite the ballplayer I wanted to be, never quite the teacher I knew I could be, and inching ever closer to the woman I have dreamed of being.

Satisfaction comes from success perhaps.  But growth in my opinion comes from coming up just a little short…….