INTRO
“If this is going to be your chosen profession, you really should think about to subscribing to natural gas weekly.”
Whether the realization of the implications of such a statement hit like the subtle creeping of the rising tide, or the massive impact of an unforeseen meteor, striking the earth, I do not recall. But its resulting effect proved to be a catalyst – one of grand scale.
At the time, not only had I never heard of Henry Miller, but I was not even aware of his existence. But when I think back to that declarative statement now, I think about it in the context of something he wrote.
“Surely everyone realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he has chosen.” At thee time I had not the benefit of the prodigious HM, but the realization that this was not the life I wished to lead was present like… like the elephant in the room – the white noise of frustration permeating my daily life.
While I can reflect back on my life to earlier moments, and their effects and future consequence governing the course of my life, it seems as though this was really the defining moment – this singular event in time that proved to be the catalyst that started it all. A quest, really before I realized that it was a quest. At the time I only looked upon this as the realization of future unhappiness, and not for what I now understanding to be – the beginning of the battle against fear, the search for courage, passion and joy, the quest for GREATNESS. This is the story of Francis Watts’ quest for GREATNESS.
