If you really loved someone, but never let them know, and watched them go off and create a life without ever telling them how you feel or doing anything to stop them - and now you, from a distance, have to watch them live out a happy life with the person you wish that was you, that must truly hurt, yes, but I'm sorry, you have gotten exactly what you deserve, because your inaction was in itself a choice.
People do not create new lives out of thin air. It takes a significant period of time for people to change course - for preparations both mental and material to align, so that a new timeline can be made the dominant pathway.
This means you could have, at any point, *chosen* to act, and yet you, deliberately and repeatedly, time and time again at numerous critical junctures and pressure points when you most intensely felt the impulse to declare your love - clamped down on that impulse. Repeatedly in the name of fear, stubbornness and pride, you have made yourself act against what comes most naturally to you - the truest expressions of your heart - just to find that denying them did not erase them, only make them fester within you without an outlet to blossom.
You see, it is not fate that has acted against you, when it was practically begging and screaming at you to do something, to risk yourself, to take a chance, to act - *to tell them* - it was you who acted against fate, who turned resisting your deepest wants into a perverted game of willpower, where you only win by rejecting what you most truly desire. What a perverse and absurd game that is, no? You win when you don't get what you want, because you prove to yourself you can resist it? Even if there is a logic, it is about as nonsensical as it is contemptuous.
So tell me, what good do you possibly think can come from that? Do you think God will just tolerate your endless rebellion against the cravings he put in your heart for them? That you can disrespect his timing? That windows of opportunity forever remain open, and the fates of others remain frozen, whilst you just ass around doing everything in your power to move away from what you most truly desire by not only doing nothing to pursue it - but actively resisting yourself whenever you feel the urge to?
Of course not. Your task was to conquer what was sacred to you, not give it up by doing literally nothing, because nothing is a something - the silent something - the something that says "I could have, but chose not to" - which is in itself a verdict, for when you choose not to, the world chooses against you too. When you say "I could have, but didn't" the world says "you could have, but now you can't." And so what was once your choice stops being your choice, for the verdict of the fates always outendures the verdict of your pride. Do you see it?
This world does not reward the idle, the endless ruminator, the speculator, nor the one who will not risk themselves. You do not have forever to be self-indulgent, to find yourself, to work up your courage or "make it perfect" - all of these things are excuses for the dual faces of fear known as pride and cowardice - and so you must fight for what you want, rather than against wanting what you want, or live in torment with what you could have had but didn't, because you made acting against your deepest longing your most common habit.
Today, whatever America does, the world tends to follow. That is not just power, it is responsibility. America has shown the world what a nation can achieve with 250 years of outward freedom, my wish is that the next chapter is about achieving inner freedom too. Happy 250th, America. -Sg
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One of man's deepest desires is not to be a burden on anyone and to earn his way. Burdening others brings him shame. He aspires to self-sufficiency so he can be one that gives rather than takes. He does not pursue independence out of vanity, he covets self-reliance out of honour.
Unfortunately, I have to admit that I have not done my best. My current situation is a direct consequence of my incompetence. I suck at doing this life thing.
When you first start out, your ideas will be atrocious, your expectations will be beyond a reasonable scope, and your effort will be immeasurable.
As experience washes away your unknowingness, these behaviors fade.
But you'll be sacrificing something magical. The pursuit of perfection will rob you of the unrealistic ideas and delusional fantasies that gave rise to your success in the first place. You mustn't allow this creative chaos to fade.
This game will make grown men cry.
Blown accounts.
Empty bank.
Sleepless nights staring at red candles.
Every trader who made it walked through this fire first.
Quit and you stay broke forever.
Push through and you never work for anyone again.
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