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August 25, 2015 10 mins

There is a struggle much bigger than this pen. There is a struggle that lingers like the tide of an ocean under the dark spell of a creative hurricane. It reminds me of my mortality, existence, and progress.

This struggle connects all cries and frowns from myself and others alike, and it cooks them up to serve to others with a steamy side of bullshit.

The struggle is not sincere, nor does it care who I am or where I’m going.

It doesn’t care about you either.

It operates to dismantle the world from discovering the good energies of happiness that birth and flourish within the fruits of life. It operates to burn all bridges that we create, in arms, to support the cross-over into a life of contentment and meaning. (The life you dream about.)

When these bridges are obsolete, and we fall out of unity with one another, the struggle takes control of the current situation.

However, it can NEVER be in control of our future situations.

Thoughts and actions stapled to the back of negativity within the struggle produce an illusion that leads us to believe we are comfortable in the situation.

Do you procrastinate? Illusion.

How many times have you made an excuse to get out of doing something you fear may be difficult? Instead, you take the easy way out and do the bare minimum or nothing at all.

The result: 99.9% of us live our entire lives within this illusion. (I made the number up, but it has to be close.)

But why?

Life is about overcoming fears and obstacles and improving our minds, bodies, and souls every day. If it wasn’t, we’d all still be wearing diapers and shitting everywhere, waiting for Grandma to come wipe our asses because it’s easy.

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