If you ever participated in organized sports at virtually any level, you’ve heard the coaching cliches passed down over the years to inspire, motivate and encourage players to achieve their goals.
You’ve heard that luck is the residue of hard work, that winning is its own reward, that the only time you are certain of an outcome is when you quit, because if you do, you’ll never find out what you might be able to achieve.
This column could be filled with these kind of aphorisms but the insight offered here comes from actual life experience, from the truth only reality can provide, by a free spirit who follows what could be considered, in reality, a road less traveled.