In the Special Housing Unit my neighbor is picking paint off the wall and eating it.
I am reading All Quiet on The Western Front by the slitter of a street lamp that enters my cell.
The duality of man.
GM. $Daddy
Unpopular opinion: Heavy weights are easy.
Itβs the light weights that are hard.
They say a strong body is a strong mind, this is true.
Because you craft your mind as you build your body.
And it is the endless reps, thousands per day, of the same boring activity which builds the mind.
Sprints are easy.
Marathons are hard.
Finding focus and chi to lift a heavy weight a few times is much easier than finding the focus and chi to thanklessly lift a tiny weight endless times.
As many as possible, training till failure, every 30 minutes, all day every single day. Racking up thousands.
You canβt brag about how heavy it was.
You canβt show off with it or impress anyone.
You can only focus and work - building strength of body and strength of CHARACTER.
Life is the same.
You donβt get to psyche yourself up for a few events, pull them off and be successful for eternity.
You have to do the endless small things, day after day, the thankless boring things nobody cares about.
Being able to do this when everyone else quits is how you forever win.
Lifeβs rarely a huge bench press.
Very often 300 reps with a 5LB weight.
Do you understand?
I close my eyes and return to jail.
Back with the ghosts of the suicided.
Back with the cockroaches and screams of anguish.
My arms move themselves.
I no longer feel the hot sun.
My Shotokan never fails - even against the demons.
Do you understand?