Friends in Low Places

Your lowest low is very well someone else’s highest high.

Strife

/strīf/

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noun

  1. angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict.
  2. “strife within your community”

Strife is a natural occurrence, nothing more. You may have moments, you may have days, or you may have to have weeks, months or years of such. This too shall pass. It is a simple unchangeable and seemingly unpalatable fact of life that you will lose, you will be the loser and you will have to stand eye to eye with the bottom of the very barrel you have fought so hard to climb. The walls that once gave you hope and a sense of conquest now create a self-locking prison.

What may one do? Hold fast. As you are faced with the perpetual dichotomy of self sorrow and defeat or a conquestadoristic pillage forward, the sole proprietor of your own success remains in the same hands, yours. The grip that holds on to the reality in which you wish to exist and the existential crisis in which only your mind populates is held only by the will of yourself, nobody else. If you hold true, you may bear the benefits, if not, may you be strong to bear the consequences. Quitting is the easy part, as the hard part is what follows.

Hold Fast. Happy Monday.

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