Sometimes, I feel a bit depressed and enviously invoke the name of OJ Simpson (as a once admirable and apparently great black man in the past, and now a guy “who got away with it”. it’s”) pessimistically, so I quickly get over it and quickly reconcile myself to being able to function and live well where I am. With that reality told deeply and personally, I begin this article. Who does not experience, even among the best of us, obstacles and pessimistic bumps in the road that sometimes have to be overcome from scratch? It is a part of life and existence, naturally. But those awful pessimistic lemons have to be made into good optimistic lemonade, even by those who have everything against them and seemingly nothing going their way in a positive way (yet).
To begin with, we have to be honest with ourselves, that’s what I mean by “the basic bones and from scratch” in my title. As difficult as it is to admit our flaws, pessimism and destructive tendencies. We have to admit them to genuinely solve them and create in ourselves inner strength and good self-esteem. Rationally, to be fully present with ourselves, we must be present and realistic about our shortcomings. Y totally virtual. Without those admissions, we are genuinely looking for our light in the darkness.
Turn on the light in your room, what do you see endlessly? Do not flinch, look carefully and look at yourself well or very well. When you are and are not afraid, go crazy or weird, those are the beginnings of genuine, relentless, down-to-earth inner strength and optimism. Faking it until you “make it” doesn’t count either.
Sometimes it’s being a totally healthy, genuinely normal person with a heart that makes one a superhero if you know what I mean.
Everyone loves the feeling of winning, but many don’t like the feeling of paying for it that way. It’s a process, and it’s an amazing process that builds character and even hurts at times. But, for those who really follow it, it really is worth it in every way that really counts.
Ah, the joys and pains of optimism when it’s real. False optimism is closing your eyes, fearfully moving forward and hoping things don’t blow up or go bust or go wrong, and if you win, you get the credit, but if it goes wrong, you jump ship and take the blame like Sean McVay, the Los Angeles Rams football coach, seems to be on our local news shows in Los Angeles, California when they lose a big game and get all the credit when they win those same big games.
I’m saying own it all, the failure and the success, and you’ll genuinely get somewhere, as difficult as it may seem at times, because it’s genuine growth. Realistically, that’s it if you’re on a path of genuine growth without faking, flinching, or being afraid. Everything else is skipping the topic and missing the point. They say that the wages of sin or missing the target is death. Well, the wages of doing it is real life and really fully lived existence without evasion, that’s all. Everything is a choice, really.
