leaving your mark

this has been the motivation for me since i can remember, and after a kind message from a long-time friend today, i realized that i may be losing sight of this goal. i wish it was as easy as turning the lights on and off, but regaining this focus will be a process that i hope to complete before too long. heck, i hope to finish my degree before too long. so, i guess the race is on. i was operating under the pretense that the two were mutually exclusive, and they are not. they are one and the same, and i have seriously been lacking the making of a mark the last few weeks. time to re-focus and press on in the face of adversity.