Heartsell Wilson, a top platform speaker, tells how as a boy he played on an abandoned section of railroad tracks with friends. One friend was average size. The other hand was overweight. The boys would challenge each other to see who could walk the track the farthest. The overweight boy would walk and walk only a short way. The overweight boy would walk and walk and not to fall of the track. Finally, in exasperated curiosity, Heartsell demanded to know the secret.
His fat friend pointed out that Heartsell and his other buddy were looking down at their feet and, hence, they kept falling. He then explained he was to fat to see his feet, so he picked out a target down a tracks [a long range goal] and walked toward that spot. As he got close, he selected another target [don’t look to far ahead] and walked toward it.
Here’s the irony. The fat boy-turned-philoshopher pointed out that if you look down at your feet, all you see is the rust and stinkweed. On the other hand, when you look for a distance down the track you will actually “see the reaching”. How true it is.
Let every action be directed to some definite object, and perfect in its way.
– Macrus Aurelius
