The Pursuit

Viktor Karklins
Jul 22, 2017 · 1 min read

The most talented musician I’ve ever personally known was a guy I did my undergrad with. He was a music major and could play anything with strings; he started learning to play the standing bass on Monday and was playing it at a coffee house open mic on Sunday like a natural.

The year after he graduated he came back to visit, saying it was for a concert but it was really about a girl. I later found out that he had come back to campus to pursue a young lady who had been interested in both him and another guy she knew from her hometown. This trip was a grand gesture to try and win her over!

If you look them up on Facebook now she married the hometown boy, he married a very sweet girl from an entirely different province, and they are all living happily ever after in their own separate storylines. The pursuit was very romantic and sweet, but in the end it didn’t amount to anything.

Sometimes the pursuit ends in victory, other times you just move on with your life. The challenge of course is that you never know which it will be when you start the pursuit, and you never know who else is pursuing the same goal at your expense. So don’t disqualify yourself before you even begin, but also know that not every pursuit ends in achieving that which you were originally seeking.

Viktor Karklins

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