Tarnished opportunities and exhausting your options
It’s easy to wish for better opportunities. A stroke of luck or a better occurance.
Easier still, to assume that ones’ we’ve been given aren’t opportunities at all.
That the hand we’ve been dealt—that the situations and outcomes we’re left with—are somehow tarnished. Somehow, not worth pursuing or investing in at all.
Contrast this posture with the idea of exhausting all your options, and the divergence becomes clear.
That the people who make their own luck, who bet on themselves, who make their circumstances a product of their own free will, they choose to exhaust every avenue and every resource before calling it quits.
Because they know they’ve been blessed with opportunity. Perfect and plenty.
The opportunity to build the tomorrow they want, with what they have today.