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It can take a long time to become an overnight success.  
It takes even longer to become successful.  
The road to success is paved with the hardest of paving bricks and many of them.  
But when I look carefully, I note a simple pattern.  
Each brick is hard; much harder by far
than any of the bricks 
that pave the way
of lesser mortals. 

There is a unique colour pattern to my own road, 
which repeats with variations
along the multi-coloured brick road 
travelled by the one who,
while walking it, would reach for the stars. 
The light grey is the early morning brick;
the green is the seven-day-week paver. 
The orange is for every hour god sends, 
the white is for perfection. Not too many they soil easily. 
The blue brick is possibly the most important of all. 
It signposts the way and mark when it is time to pause.