ARCHIEVE 21

Argue your limitations...
Current mood: contemplative
I sometimes feel myself falling into the trap of wishing things were easier. It’s human nature though, to want the more efficient and less difficult way out. The majority of the population doesn’t like to struggle, or feel a sense of desperation everyday. But it happens. And we are all a victim to it.

However, when I find myself tapping into this frequency- I realize I don’t want the easy way out. As much as “the hard way” sucks, it will turn out to be the best. If I have learned one thing in life, I have learned that easy doesn’t bring anything. Only when we struggle, do we really learn anything or feel anything. It’s when our sense of being is so heightened and everything is intensified. When you cry, you ball your eyes out-and when you laugh, you laugh you fucking laugh your ass off.

I have become friends with struggle. I have been there, time and time again. So when I struggle, it seems all so familiar with me. It’s only when I feel like I am cheating, that I get uncomfortable. When I don’t feel like I am working for something, I get freaked out. I am so used to having to work for everything in my life, that I have alienated “the easy way out”. But come the end of the day, I am glad. I don’t want to be one of those people who settles in comfort. Who tries to manipulate a way out of things. When we are presented with a problem, we have to work through it. Otherwise, we are avoiding the problem all together.

I know I am going to have handfuls of struggles in the future. I am okay with that. I am almost excited by it. Like I said, struggling makes you learn and it helps you feel. On top of that, coming out on top of it-could be one of the better feelings in the world. I am curious to test my limits, see how many times I have to fall before I can really stand up again.

There is a quote that I absolutely love, from a book I absolutely love. “Illusions” by Richard Bach is a great inspirational read for anyone. Inside the “Messiah’s Handbook” there is a quote that says:

“ Argue your limitations, and sure enough, they’re yours”

I am a firm believer that anything is possible. I think if we really want something. We can get it. The world is full of people who say they can’t, but mean they won’t. Because saying you can’t, easily makes anything not an option. Whereas saying I won’t, is admitting defeat, and is saying you are not willing to work for something. It’s a matter of how much you want something. Don’t give up and just when you feel like you “can’t”, push even further.

I guess I have just been surrounded by too much comfort, and too many people who don’t believe in themselves. I think belief is one of the most powerful things in the world. If you believe in yourself, you are going to try, push, struggle, because you know you can do it. If you don’t believe in yourself, you are going to give up. It’s sad that there is a whole world out there and that some people just settle with what they are. Never testing limits, never learning, never feeling raw.

I’m looking forward to my personal goal for the year. I need to get out of Maine, because it is the epitome of everything I never wanted in my life. I am excited to move to a city where I spread my wings, fall, and eventually soar. I know I can do this because I am open to struggle and I believe in myself. To me, that’s all you need.

“ You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however”