Josh Yates
Aug 25, 2017 · 1 min read

An individual has the power to sincerely make a choice to change, take action, and keep moving forward. This requires hard work. It requires time. It requires more choices that intermingle with the parent choice to change.

The battle never goes away. The battle becomes life long (sometimes subconsciously), but it can make an individual stronger with time. The battle may have some pauses or intermissions, but ultimately an individual’s experience never changes. It becomes part of their story. It appears to create a mold or many layers over their core individuality. All the exposure to noise within societies, individual experiences, interactions with people, places, or things, are recorded by an individual’s neocortex which communicates with the nervous system.

The battle has a circular dependency. It appears as the human nervous system. Until an individual recognizes that change begins from within, then nothing changes. The battle continues to add layers of noise over their core individuality. In summary, the individual has to make the choice, take action, and fight the battle everyday.

An example from my experience of making a choice, taking action, and fighting everyday (alcoholism example, if I’m allergic to poison ivy, then I choose to quit playing in the woods):

https://medium.com/@joshyates1980/one-way-that-i-describe-my-alcoholism-to-people-who-do-not-understand-why-i-cannot-drink-is-the-9aee3ac04457

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