Why Settle

If a human is insulted

In even the slightest way

He is ready to fight to the death.

 

Yet in every aspect of his life

He settles.

 

His life

Is but a celebration

Of settling.

 

He settles

In his career.

 

He settles

In his relationships.

 

He settles

In the advice he seeks.

 

He settles

In the friends he makes.

 

He does this

Because a precedent has been set.

 

And he follows

The precedent.

 

Since every other human that he knows settles,

He settles also.

 

Why would a human

Who is ready to fight to the death

For being insulted in the most casual way,

Accept 273rd best

In every part of his life.

 

He is ready

To read anything,

Because “he has heard”

That it is a good thing to read.

 

He is ready

To follow any method,

Because “he has heard”

It is a good method.

 

He is ready

To invest anywhere,

Because “he has heard”

That it is a good place to invest.

 

He thinks so little of himself,

This man who is ready to fight to the death

For a slight insult.

 

He thinks so little of himself,

That he accepts hand-me-downs,

And second and third-rate information and advice

About things that are at the core of his life.

 

It matters not

If a man has “the best of everything”

Materialistically.

 

For this is fine and well,

But it will not bring him anything.

 

“The best of everything”

In the form of knowledge, information, and Truth

Can entirely Transform his life.

 

He may settle for a faux leather sofa

And not be harmed.

 

But if he settles

For faux information and advice,

He is doomed.

 

Man does not think much

Of the one and only life

He has been given.

 

 

Namaste.