Across the wide variety of sports, jobs and personal endeavors being able to hit your target is a key to success. Sports exclusively revolve around a players ability to score a goal, being ahead of the opponent, and performing at a peak level at all times. Jobs require and demand us to do our task with timeliness and consistency. Personal endeavors, might even, induce the most pressure because they present us with all our ideals and dreams and whenever our ideals and dreams become distant, we feel distant from ourselves. If we mess up during a game or have a slow day, we can blame the problems on someone else but if our dreams aren't met than we have only ourselves to dissect. Are we not able to achieve our dreams? If I thought I could do great things but can't, do I know what I am capable of? Do I know myself?

These questions seem pretty over the top but when do your personal thoughts have restrictions? They don't. We consider so many things all the time, what we will eat, what we will say, what we will do. At Hillsdale College, every second has unique value. At the beginning of the year, we debate between homework and friends, between friends and relaxing. We think and choose.

These choices are quite easy in the beginning of the semester because there is not a lot of homework and all your friends can hang out. At the end of the semester though, choices are harder, papers, midterms, and homework pile up, friends are stressed out. We miss spending time with our friends, and that causes us to sacrifice time on homework. That causes us to miss the high grades we want. Which causes us to miss the security of our decisions.

Missing merely is hitting off the mark, weather that mark be self fixated or imposed onto us but some misses are more influential than others. If you miss a question on your homework, you lose maybe .01 percent of your total grade, but if you miss read a prompt for a paper you lose a fifth of your grade.

As humans, it is inevitable that we will make mistakes and miss the mark. With the help of others, those that support us, we can recover from the fall. With the help of God, we can be lifted up emotionally. But what happens when you fall and no one is there to help you up? Falling, missing and solitude leads us to become detached. We can blend into the crowd and miss out from the comfort life could give us. Falling from our thrones of mental fortitude. Missing the people that you want to love and cling to. Isolating our morals from the expectations. Finding the target in our lives leads to the most life changing moments and missing them leads to the hardest challenges.