Back Pain

Success requires your backbone, not your wishbone.

That is true you know.

Sometimes you see in the world those people who want everything. They are going to do everything, they’re gonna have everything.

Those people are called ‘gunners’.

They’re gunner do this and they’re gunner have that.
But I guess that’s just who they are.
They say that they will do everything, and yet when it comes to the crunch time, they can’t be bothered, or they are too lazy, or they chicken out.

I think that perhaps there is a little of that type of person in all of us. The person who says they’re ‘gunner’ do something and never end up doing it. Some people have more of that person than others and it comes through more often.

I suppose those people who want to succeed don’t let that gunner person come through. They say they’re gunner do something and they do it. Or maybe they don’t even tell anyone and just do it anyway. See those gunners are the wishers. They wish and wish and yet never act. Perhaps they get somewhere. They get somewhere the same was sometimes someone who never tried at school or tried at anything, ends up being a millionaire – through chance. Through unknowingly saying the right thing at the right time. Through a fluke. Through pure luck. But not through skill or hard work or determination. There are those people out there who get everything for nothing
But how many of those people are out there?

And how many more people are out there who get everything because they worked hard, and put in a huge amount of effort, and didn’t give up?

Some people, those wishers, those gunners, some of them want to be like that. They say “I’m going to be one of those people who end up being a millionaire and surprise everyone.” They plan on being one of those people and so don’t put in any effort to do anything else. They wait for that chance that never comes. And at the end of their life, they look back and think I wish I could have tried once. Then I may have gotten somewhere in the end. And, don’t get me wrong, some of them certainly do got there. But not many.

I can’t, can’t, leave my life up to chance.

Where is your backbone?
‘Cause you’re looking very flimsy
I’m breaking down your paper wall

You looked so sound asleep
I can’t believe
That your backbone’s missing and you
Never had a clue at all

You could’ve been something
You could’ve been something memorable
I should’ve said something, I should’ve said