Learning to fight for yourself before you fight for others..... it's hard...

It's a hard lesson to learn, but at some point everyone reaches the point of critical mass, where one decides to be a servant to everyone around them, or be a servant to themselves.

Perhaps servant isn't even the right word, because that really says that you are doing things under direction vs. just doing things which also might include providing direction. I'll change my use of the word servant at this time to the word "pawn" because I like the imagery that the word "pawn" creates.

So... what does one do when they feel like nothing but a pawn on the chess battlefield of life?

You make a fucking change, you get hard nosed, you throw those brick walls up on the fronts that continue to cost you more in attrition than you end up gaining in personal satisfaction.

You start thinking about decisions rather than just making them, you bite the bullet when you fuck up instead of blaming it on other people or situations. You stop turning and running when you find yourself in a shitty situation and you face it, sober, and conquer it.

That's how you change your life, step by step... it sucks, and it is not fun, but it is what defines whether or not you are a leader, follower or complete and utter loser.

You have to push yourself to the limit, past the limit in many cases and right on it when you don't need to pass it. You have to push...

Now it's time to ask yourself, are you driven?


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