Something in life I recently realized, there is two types of people. The ones who dig for gold and those who simply just look for it.

What ever that gold may be. It can be your line of work, your schooling, beliefs, thoughts, dreams, you name it.

Okay now, here’s what I learned.

There are those people who like the spotlight that follows the hunt for the gold. They enjoy the glamor and mystery it comes with and try to follow in the footsteps of successful people from the past. They adorn themselves with the (supposedly) correct attire. They get their equipment and clothes dirty and try to break in to the proper circles, and pose for photos at famous digging sites just to be seen. Heck, they even choose to take part in classes, visit conferences, join seminars and junkets, all that for all the wrong reasons. The only thing they are doing is looking the part, without breaking out a shovel. At the end of the day they are satisfied by deceiving most of the people they meet along their way.

On the other hand , there are those who are neck deep in the trenches, getting cut and bruised deep inside the mines, or way underneath sea level tirelessly and relentlessly digging. You might even call it an obsession with their chosen path in life. They don’t care about the bright lights and/or groupies. They are in Love with the struggle. They are fully aware of the sacrifices they have to make in order to find what they are looking for. Often they come up empty and yet they dust themselves off and pull themselves up, just to fail over and over again.  Even after all that, they still keep going.

These are two people on the exact same path, but they are light years away from each other.

I know which one of the two I want to be.