"Violence against one, is violence against all. And violence against all, is violence against myself." - Charlie Crews
I have a resolve about myself sometimes. There are days where I feel like it's all against me, I must admit; feel like the tides of life will crush me, but overall, I'm always able to see things through to the other side.
This past week, alone, has been a prime example of my will: I was able to create nine montages in one day (something I didn't think was possible), I managed to sneak my way out of taking another stupid city-wide test that my grandmother signed me up for without my consent, and I even had the brains to put together a five-part crossover script consisting of the characters from Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, and Life.
I've often wondered why I seem more driven than most others my age, but I could never think of an answer. Maybe it's in my nature, or maybe it's just who I've learned to be.
Denial is often seen as a negative thing, but you can change it. It can be a positive thing if you know how to use it. Sometimes, you just have to look reality in the face and, well, deny whatever it is you see.
All the odds said that it would've taken me a week, at least, to complete that Smallville montage mini-series, but I denied that overwhelming figure and I got it done in less than a day. All odds said that I wouldn't have gotten out of High School on time - let alone - ahead of time, but I graduated six months ahead of my original High School Class. The odds predicted that I woundn't have been able to start writing on such a prodigal level, at the age of nine, but I did.
I'm a firm believer in believing to understand: It's all about philosophical progection.
This year off of school has taught me one thing, if anything at all, and maybe that's why I subconsciously took this year off: Sometimes, to get to where you want to get to in life, you have to deny everything and take your own course in lfe even f that means contradcting the relentlessness of those closest to you, or the official way of doing things.
Deny the odds, deny the expectations of others, deny the offical account of things, deny the way things have always been done, deny the mindsets of those who you find counter-productive, deny the reality of the things that are holding you back from the things you want the most.
Denying everything is the only way we grow into the people who we want to be, opposed to, the people everyone else wants us to be.
Most things in life are out of our hands, but we can choose, I believe, to be who we are at the end of the day.... if you have the resolve to be who you want to be.
If you have the resolve to deny everything....
I have a resolve about myself sometimes. There are days where I feel like it's all against me, I must admit; feel like the tides of life will crush me, but overall, I'm always able to see things through to the other side.
This past week, alone, has been a prime example of my will: I was able to create nine montages in one day (something I didn't think was possible), I managed to sneak my way out of taking another stupid city-wide test that my grandmother signed me up for without my consent, and I even had the brains to put together a five-part crossover script consisting of the characters from Burn Notice, In Plain Sight, and Life.
I've often wondered why I seem more driven than most others my age, but I could never think of an answer. Maybe it's in my nature, or maybe it's just who I've learned to be.
Denial is often seen as a negative thing, but you can change it. It can be a positive thing if you know how to use it. Sometimes, you just have to look reality in the face and, well, deny whatever it is you see.
All the odds said that it would've taken me a week, at least, to complete that Smallville montage mini-series, but I denied that overwhelming figure and I got it done in less than a day. All odds said that I wouldn't have gotten out of High School on time - let alone - ahead of time, but I graduated six months ahead of my original High School Class. The odds predicted that I woundn't have been able to start writing on such a prodigal level, at the age of nine, but I did.
I'm a firm believer in believing to understand: It's all about philosophical progection.
This year off of school has taught me one thing, if anything at all, and maybe that's why I subconsciously took this year off: Sometimes, to get to where you want to get to in life, you have to deny everything and take your own course in lfe even f that means contradcting the relentlessness of those closest to you, or the official way of doing things.
Deny the odds, deny the expectations of others, deny the offical account of things, deny the way things have always been done, deny the mindsets of those who you find counter-productive, deny the reality of the things that are holding you back from the things you want the most.
Denying everything is the only way we grow into the people who we want to be, opposed to, the people everyone else wants us to be.
Most things in life are out of our hands, but we can choose, I believe, to be who we are at the end of the day.... if you have the resolve to be who you want to be.
If you have the resolve to deny everything....
No comments:
Post a Comment
Montages, the artform thereof, and all subsequent works featured on this blog page are owned by DaiQuan M. Cain and are subject to copyright (#185729-V) under the U.S. Copyright Law of 1976 & the U.S. Library of Congress. Any thievery, unauthorized usage, or infringement of said work(s) and copyright(s) will result in a fine of up to $250,000 or more.