Taking Up Space In Time

I have always found it odd sometimes how in a high school graduating class of 250, less than 10% are relatively successful as defined by national median income and less than 1% actually become super wealthy and this takes into consideration professional athletics which has, for years, skewed the results...  but now science is beginning to discover that some people are simply born with a different personality and character that simply provides them with whatever they need both mentally and physically to become incredibly successful.

MOST OF US ARE NOT BORN WITH THIS CHARACTER and it is not something that can be acquired or developed, it is just there inside some of us at birth.

Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson are perfect examples of this phenomenon and no matter how hard we try we will never be their equals when it comes to the skills and abilities they possessed.

Throughout history we have seen these people as well, like:

1. Wolfgang Mozart
2. William Shakespeare
3. Genghis Khan
4. Marco Polo
5. Isaac Newton
6. Leonardo da Vinci
7. Michelangelo 
8. Pablo Picasso
9. Thomas Jefferson
10. Albert Einstein
11. Bill Gates
12. Steve Jobs

AND...  I suppose that there are many more...  but, you get the point...  some of us will be successful and wealthy while most of us will not and all of this depends quite honestly on the moment of birth and the character with which the baby is blessed.

SO...  what does this mean for the vast majority of us?  Nothing much other than we will be quite ordinary and live a meaningful but ordinary life and die an ordinary death accomplishing little while we were alive other than taking up space in time.

Something In Their Character

ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL WITH CERTAIN UNALIENABLE RIGHTS THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS...

Fine and beautiful words to live by but... are they ACCURATE?

We might be equal in the eyes of GOD which is now questionable among many in the United States that there even is a GOD...  yet, the reality is that we are TOTALLY UNEQUAL in most everything including but not limited to LIFE, LIBERTY, and the PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS...

Why would I suggest such a stupid comment?

Well...  because it is something in their character that causes people to be successful whether or not that something was put there by God or by someone or something else, it is still nonetheless there...   AND, one SOME OF US HAVE IT...

CHARACTER is one of the attributes or features that make up an individual...

FOR EXAMPLE

Here is the sentence by Martin Luther King Jr

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but the content of their character.”

What is the exact meaning of ‘the content of their character’?

THE RESPONSE

"Content" in this context means "Contents"; in other words, what is "held within" or, simply "inside".
"Character" is what makes someone what he (or she) is. It includes what they believe in, but also - and most importantly) -how they behave: for example, whether or not they are honest, kind, friendly, loving, respectful and so on. It is similar to "personality", but tends to be used when considering whether someone is good or bad, and focuses on their actions. So, one could have a violent gangster who has a thoroughly bad character, but a "lively" personality!

So, Martin Luther King was really asking that people be judged by their behavior rather than their appearance.

NEITHER DEMOCRATS NOR REPUBLICANDS, LIBERALS OR CONSERVATIVES, DEMOCRACIES OR SOCIALISTIC STATES CAN LEGISLATE CHARACTER...   AS IT IS UNIQUELY DIFFERENT FOR ALL OF US AND WHAT WILL ALWAY SEPARATE THE WEALTHY FROM THE POOR AND MANAGEMENT FROM LABOR.