I am meant to play football. Enough said.

You see different people react to different situations and sometimes you wonder if there is a pattern to things. Most often than not there is one. Some of them are easy to figure than others but point is that in almost 95% of the cases, there is a definite pattern to people's thoughts and actions. One definitive indicator is their past. Past actions, situations, consequences do tend to determine who or how a person tends to shape up and I believe most people tend to fall in this bracket or mold of human behavior evolution.

Then there are those that aren't like the rest. A few make a conscious choice to not let the past (I am referring to it in a negative connotation here) affect their present. They willfully choose to make decisions about the present being in the present. Kind of like being in a neutral, fair state. Of course I am not trying to discount the value of experience but that's not the point here. The thing that separates these kinds from the rest is their willingness to learn each day and not let their past overshadow their present. That quality also makes them humble even though they clearly seem to overachieve as compared to their peers and are a much happier lot. I mean how often do you see a person that is super talented, super successful, super modest and super happy? Yet every once in a while you might meet one of these kinds and you have nothing but respect.

I think it boils down to the fact that how many of us are willing to adapt and learn from each experience. I think most (if not all) of us know we can (and probably should) but it's something we don't consider as an important part of life. At least after a certain stage in life.

I, for one, salute the few. They seem to transcend the realms of morality and religion (probably very loosely used here) but having said that I have seen that the true Christians do seem to belong to that few.