WOW! I could write a New York Times Best Seller bout this...Just think of the many ass kickings we’ve taken over our lifetimes. Think of each one and remember how lonely you were and how you could not seem to see a way out or a way forward. Maybe you can recall the long walk home, numbed to the bone and the tears hitting your sleeve like huge raindrops. Maybe you think back on the hours alone on your bed reliving the pain of the current failure, then fretting over how you will face all those that had faith in you but re no disappointed with your loss. Holy Moly! I am sitting here writing this with tons of regret and emotional pain. Ouch!
The lesson that is so obvious is that we have to learn on the job. We can’t change a thing but we can learn to resolve that we are going to stand up, take a deep breath, pull off our dirty clothes, take a shower and generate the energy and determination to kick the door down and get back out there and win. If we stay down we are defeated. So! Get your asses up and figure it out. It won’t come in a flash but you and your warrior personality will match the pain of the most recent debacle with focus, drive, and a gigantic push. We have to regain the “full tank of want to” as fast as we can.
I hate getting crushed. I hate worse to feel totally sideline, marginalized, and out of the race. We have to learn hatred! We have to hate being down. We can’t avoid it but we can get up via sheer will if we have the guts to do it.
My last time out on stage I got killed. I could not hide my half assed effort from the judges. Down I went. Now! since facing my idiocy and my public demise I have determined, “This will never happen again!” I’m off the undo the results of a self-inflicted wound.
Bottom Line: If you want to win you must choose to be better in the face of overwhelming down inertia after defeat. To not rise to the occasion tells you a story of a soul who has settled at a much lower station in life than is possible. DON’T DO IT! Thinking you are beaten is a trap from which nobody ever returns…..Like the “EVERY MAN STORY”…..we must win (get up) and return home victorious. There is the only satisfying ending to defeat…..See you at the WINNER’S CIRCLE!
Six Pack and Senior 