Why do we fall?
“Why do we fall? So we can learn to pick ourselves up.” -The Dark Knight
Let me tell you something you already know. The world is not all sunshine and rainbows, it is a very mean and nasty place. I don’t care how tough you are, it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. Nobody is going to hit as hard as life. But it is not about how hard you can hit, it is about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. Thats how winning is done. Through trail and errors. There is no such thing as overnight success. Work and position yourself for “luck”. We all fall, that’s natural. But what defines a person is his/her ability to fall, understand the situation and figure out the way to stand up, and go on, stronger and smarter than before.
Pain is temporary. It may last for a minute or an hour or a day or even a year. But eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If you quit, however it will last forever. The margin for error is so small, one half a step too late or too early and you don’t quite make it. One half a second too slow or too fast and you don’t quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They are in every break of the game, every minute, every second. We are what we repeatedly do, excellence, then is not an act but a habit. You must consciously prepare yourself everyday. If you have a dream, then you have to protect it. When people can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you that you cant do it as well. If you want something, go and get it. Don’t let the opinions of others hold you back.
Don’t be afraid to fail, you can’t always win. But don’t be afraid of making decisions. You have to believe that something different can happen. He who says he can and he who says he can’t, are both usually right. Most people say they want to be successful, but they don’t want it bad. They just kind of want it. They don’t want it more than they want to party, they don’t want it as much as they want to be cool. Some people don’t want success, as much as they want to sleep. Waisting away their potential.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate, our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You have to dig deep deep down and ask yourself, who do you want to be? Figuring out for yourselves, what makes you happy? No matter how crazy it may sound to other people. You have to make a choice. Just decide, whats it’s going to be, who you’re going to be, how you’re going to do it. Just decide.
“It ain’t about how hard you can hit, it’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward.” -Rocky
Get up, but don’t ever give up. We can stay down here and get the the life beaten out of us, or we can fight our way back, into the light. We can climb out of Hell. One inch at a time. To be able, at any moment to sacrifice what you are for what you will become. Most of you won’t be successful, because when you’re studying and you’re tired, you quit. “I don’t do well in math” you’re right. Because you have never actually studied. “Im not good at writing” because you have never taken the time to sit down and write before. Talent you have naturally, skill is only developed through hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft. If you are not making someone else's life better, than you are waisting your time.
Don’t cry to give up. Cry to keep going. Don’t cry to quit. You are already in pain, you are already hurt. Get a reward from it. If you know what you are worth, then go out and get what you are worth. But you have to be willing to take the hits. And not point fingers saying you aren’t where you want to be because of him or her or anybody. Cowards do that and that is not you. You are better than that. You have to own it and take responsibility for yourself. Everyday is a new day, every moment is a new moment, so now you have to go out and show them that you are a different person. The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man, or a group of men, but all men. In you, you the people. You have the power to create machines, create happiness, you have the power to make this life free and beautiful. The ability to make this life a wonderful adventure.
Now, what are you going to do?
Because limits, like fears, are often just and illusion. — Michael Jordan
