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"I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on the way."
- Carl Sandburg

Who is Carl Sandburg?

Carl Sandburg, a successful poet, journalist and biographer, was known for his poems that gave voice to the least powerful people or the masses. As a great poet and biographer, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for one his biography, Abraham Lincoln: the War Years, and for his collection, The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg; included in his collection was the famous ‘Chicago’ and ‘Fog’.

The Fog

The fog comes on
Little cat feet
It sits looking
Over harbor and city
On silent haunches
And then moves on.

I first came across this poem 2 years back when I was asked to write a report on it. Now, reading it again made me realize what the author is truly implying. Fog was used in the poem to symbolize opportunities that come and go. The harbor and city represents a town full of opportunities but these opportunities comes silently, unnoticed and only comes once. We are not there to merely spot opportunities but we are to act on them in order to make things happen.

Opportunities come only once hence grab it and take the chance; if not then you lose. Like the show ‘survivor’, the more risks you take the more you become victorious. There is more to happen in taking chances or risks than not ‘cause you never know what path it will lead you to and what luck it will bring.

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