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4 years ago
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These are not my words... But they touched me and are relevant and should be heard by others. So please take the time to read and reflect on them as it is important.
Writing this to get my thoughts into order.
To fall and get up again, that's really the essence of life. Not the falling specifically because it's often inevitable, but the getting up part. To see yourself fall - to the stupidest pitfalls - it's the most awful and humiliating experience. However, other people also keep making those same mistakes and you're not angry at them either, you're angry and disappointed if they give up and stop trying to progress from it.
That's why you need to get up, not just for yourself but also for other people. If you stay at the pit, eventually you'll just believe everyone and everything is a failure, yourself included. While comfortable, there's no way forward and you'll probably drag down other people as well.
There's a lot of people out there who are just looking to spot each mistake and say "gotcha", sometimes all the people around are like that, and sometimes it can feel that's all there is even if it's not always true. "Fuck you, I'll show you" has taken me forward in life for a long time, though you can only run on that solo energy for so long. To start believing in other people, to trust they know what will work best for themselves, that they will stumble, then get back up and eventually succeed. Of course that means some people will probably fail a lot and it's going to feel disappointing, the successes will make it worth it. It will not only fuel them but also yourself.
If you keep getting up and trying again, you have never truly failed, regardless of what other people say.
-Neo
Writing this to get my thoughts into order.
To fall and get up again, that's really the essence of life. Not the falling specifically because it's often inevitable, but the getting up part. To see yourself fall - to the stupidest pitfalls - it's the most awful and humiliating experience. However, other people also keep making those same mistakes and you're not angry at them either, you're angry and disappointed if they give up and stop trying to progress from it.
That's why you need to get up, not just for yourself but also for other people. If you stay at the pit, eventually you'll just believe everyone and everything is a failure, yourself included. While comfortable, there's no way forward and you'll probably drag down other people as well.
There's a lot of people out there who are just looking to spot each mistake and say "gotcha", sometimes all the people around are like that, and sometimes it can feel that's all there is even if it's not always true. "Fuck you, I'll show you" has taken me forward in life for a long time, though you can only run on that solo energy for so long. To start believing in other people, to trust they know what will work best for themselves, that they will stumble, then get back up and eventually succeed. Of course that means some people will probably fail a lot and it's going to feel disappointing, the successes will make it worth it. It will not only fuel them but also yourself.
If you keep getting up and trying again, you have never truly failed, regardless of what other people say.
-Neo
Thank you! Because of reasons I just needed that reminder written down in the words of another right now.
Sometimes we optimists tend to forget those facts Neo has stated there and that you were so kind to put online on your journal.
Would you mind when I fullcopy those words and put then into a journal at my page too - of course with giving credits to Neo?
Have created that journal entry now.
I'll offer some choice quotes too that hopefully will inspire others:
"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
Nelson Mandela
"Fall seven times. Stand up eight."
Japanese Proverb
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall."
Confucius
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
"The secret of life isn't what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you."
Norman Vincent Peale
"When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up."
Les Brown