To live is to fight, for this world is but a hurricane of
challenges all aimed at you. If it ever becomes too much, if you
get down on your life, you will look for encouragement.
And you will not find it.
Everyone puts on the appearance that they want the best for you,
that they want you to succeed. But in reality, the thing they least
want is you to succeed. They want you to fail!
When you start to change your life, people will notice it. They
will not like it. We all get used to placing people in certain
'categories'. You're showing them that there is more to you than
they thought. That instead of letting life define you, you are
defining life yourself. You're literally fighting for life and this
makes them uncomfortable because they didn't (and once they realize
it, they know it is too late!).
Endure. All your exes will have one thing in common: they want you
to fail. The last thing they want is to run into you later and see
you successful. No! They want to see you remain the same or sink
lower.
Endure. All the girls that shot you down: they want you to fail. A
big fear in woman is missing The Great Catch. Give substance to
their fear.
Endure. At your high school reunion, the ones you knew will come
back with secret desires of seeing failures everywhere, even at
you. Defy them.
Endure. For it is the same for 99% of the people, they get grounded
up into comformity and become bewildered as their lives become more
and more joyless. They will feel threatened by you. You may even
want to stop your metamorphosis by how uncomfortable it is to
others you knew and even for yourself. But those who stop can never
realize their dreams and so never can be don juans.
The more successful you become in life, the more and more people
will despise you. No one despises the innocent Nice Guy who happily
takes orders. But everyone envies the one who knows what he wants
and takes it, the guy who won't be played, and the guy who manages
to unite dream and day.
All your married friends... they want you to fail. They will
whisper in your ear that you should do like they did. All your
friends... they want you to fail. They will confer to you that you
ought to shrug off these 'ideas' of yours. "Live like us!" they
will tell you.
Most people remain static all their lives. They do not change and
cannot change. They are basically the same now as they were five
years from now. But YOU are totally different, for now you have
improved and refined yourself while they stayed the same in their
vaperous habits.
Imagine they are gathering in a circle around you and your life.
They are all taking bets on when you will stop and fail. And when
you do, they will let out a sigh of relief and say, "Thank
goodness!" People do not want you to succeed, especially people
you've known your entire life. They want you to stay the same or
fail. Their lives can only succeed by seeing you fail.
For nothing can overtake the power of Endurance!
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with
talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated failure.
Endurance alone is power ultimate. So endure.
We are the sum of our endurance. And we will not let others define
us any longer.
