Sunday, February 26, 2012

Dark Horses

Expectations. It's a big word, isn't it? Scares some people, invigorates others.
In every situation, every circumstance, every experience, people expect things. They go into something with a prearranged opinion of how it's going to turn out, or how someone else is going to act, or what a certain group of people is like.

It's hard to try and sort out all the different standards set by the world. Some say you should act one way, and then contradict themselves five minutes down the road. The easiest thing to do us just follow the crowd. Find a model, make like a monkey and do what they do. Then at least you're protected by the power of mass opinion.

This is certainly the most logical, safe course of action. Nothing gets messy, no one gets confused. And no one gets uncomfortable.
But is this really what we want? Do we want a generation of happy, preppy drones that only know how to keep the status quote? Or do we want unpopular dreamers that can see past their own horizons? Adventurous nobodies that dare to try?! Are we content with mere proficiency, or will we dare to do strive for excellence? Because that's the true question that faces our generation today.

As much as I'd love to, I can't give you an answer to this question. You have to make a choice for yourself: that's the entire point of this discussion.

"And we're singing HEY! You can't count us out! We've been running up against the crowd. Yeah, we are the dark horses." ~ Jon Foreman

Most horses are led tamely by a tiny bit of metal fit between their teeth. They trot along because that's all they know to do. But dark horses? They're too wild to submit. They know their true master, and they won't accept being bridled by anyone except Him.
Who is your master? Is it a world that seeks to turn you into a mass-produced consumer content with an average? Or is it a God who made you an individual, who loves you exactly the way you are, and has an amazing destiny in mind that's tailor-fit just for YOU?
I know who I've chosen. The dark horses won't settle for just any rider. They want exactly one: the master who'd raised them since the beginning, who cares for them and treats them with kindness.

Which one are you?