The first step

I am determined that it starts with one step. It starts when we finally get enough courage to make a move in the direction we have been dreaming but never done anything about.

I am tired of being the youngest with the least amount of ambition. I am tired of entering into conversations and wondering how people got to be so smart, because I could never talk like they do. I am tired of looking at athletes and wondering how in the world they have the energy to finish the race. I am tired of watching and determined to do.

I am convinced that this city, these people, this generation, that I am better than this. I don't know where this journey will lead but as William Danforth said "Life has to be lived, the fields have to be plowed, but it's the way you live it and the way you plow that count in the long run."

Many of you may have seen the signs around the city for Marathon Makeover. Its a group that takes all types of people that had a dream but never made a step and shows them they can do it. I have decided that for the next forty weeks, I will train to for a marathon. I hope that during this time that not only will my physical body become motivated and in shape, but that I would dare myself mentally, socially, and spiritually.

In honor of the great Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., I ask that you begin to ask yourself the same and over these next forty weeks. . . I DARE YOU!