Riddle #5

An incentive to act or an incentive to run
Regardless of which, it’s rarely much fun.
If you have too much, your life it may rule
Yet if you have none, you’re more of a fool.

Used by great leaders to inspire, yet divide
A more potent tool than love or pride.
Often irrational, with no reason why;
Still if you don’t heed it, you’re likely to die.

Overcome it you must, if you wish to succeed
But a healthy amount is something you need.
Without any, you can try what you will,
But I strongly doubt you’ll be with us still.

Well, I managed to waste an hour of time and put off all the mountains of work I need to do, but I managed to pump out another riddle. Not one of my better works, but I had to put up something! I think this one's probably an easier one, but I say that about all of em, so who knows.

Anyway, here's the scores thus far: Derek 5, Elizabeth G. 5, Caitlin 5, The Sugue 5, Ellen 5, Martha 4, Melissa 2, Elizabeth E. 1, Kelly 1. I'm still not enforcing any sort of time limit, but it would be nice to tie up the loose ends a few of you have.

On another note, I've decided to let whoever makes the most posts each week decide what colors the journal will have the next week. You can see a list of the possibilities by doing a google search for hexadecimal colors and clicking the first or second links (there's a virtual crayola box of choices). If you make the most posts, but don't want to choose, then just tell someone else to do it for you (or I'll make it black on black and ride into the distant laughing maniacly).

Well, I've got Chemistry to do, until next time.