Personal Responsibility

So, you just gonna scroll on past, act like you don't know exactly what this post will contain? You that afraid of the truth? Come on in! Don't be shy! It's time we start reinforcing this again. C'mon man. You in? Good! Now listen up, first things first. This world does not owe you anything for being here, none, zip, zilch, nada. You understand? Life is fucking hard! And trust me it Don't get much easier, but if you do your time and put in your dues, you'll come out alright. And I mean I sympathize, I really do. Life will completely destroy you in the blink of an eye and sometimes there is just no stopping it. Doesn't matter how well you plan, doesn't matter how good you act, doesn't matter how much you've already endured, nothing. Life has it out for you and if you want to make it somewhere you have got to be willing to do the work and push past the suck. And sometimes it's going to suck, really fucking bad. Sometimes you might have to change your plans, expect to change them a lot. Even major plans, like career choices and life partnerships and friends and family, life will take it all from you without batting a fucking eye. But that don't mean you give up, say screw it I can't hack it. That doesn't mean you make excuses for yourself or that what you want is going to be handed to you for free. It don't matter what color your damn skin is or the junk you've got between your legs. It doesn't matter which God you worship or what your sexual preferences are. It does not fucking matter! What matters is how much you're willing to bleed for that dream, how much you're willing to sweat for that goal, how much you're willing to cry for that ambition! What are you willing to give? Huh? You willing to sacrifice family time? You willing to sacrifice partying? You willing to sacrifice immediate gratification? Are you?! Are you willing to put in 40 hours of research and study on top of a 40 hour work shift? Are you willing to claw your way up from the bottom? Are you even willing to find out all the small steps it's going to take to build up to that? Do you have the mental fortitude to endure death, loss, heartbreak, stress, uncertainty, fear, and everything else to hell with what anyone else says because if they say you can't do it, then they don't need to speak to you because you already KNOW you can! You feel in your bones, in your heart and soul, and you are dedicated to make this work or come as close as you possibly can. But that's gonna require that you actually put in the work and that work might be literal with a job or figuratively with finding a group of like minded individuals who will help you aspire to new heights! To make those connections, even when you're afraid. To put in those extra hours even when you're sore, sick and exhausted. To put in the extra research even when you're doubtful and every thought tells you that you can't do this, that you're not good enough, not smart enough, not attractive enough, not worth enough, are you willing to push past that and break that glass ceiling? Because if you are, then even if you don't hit your mark, you will still find yourself way up among the stars. So long as you keep striving to be a better you, no excuses. Because that's what it's going to take. You aren't going to be handed anything in life. Or you could look at it from a different perspective, let's say you just found out you have cancer. Who do you want working on you? The doctor who spent 10 years getting a PhD? Who studied and did everything necessary, made the right friends, had the right connections, strived day and night, sometimes literally to get where they are today, about to perform surgery on you. Or would you rather have a doctor who was given their degree because of their skin color or gender? Who doesn't even know which blade to use, let alone what's supposed to be inside your body and what's not supposed to be there. Which doctor would you feel safer operating on you? It's time to realize the fact that all this garbage of political correctness is garbage and everything they sell our minorities is garbage because this is America and if you're willing to give your damned best! You will find success. But if you sit there and make excuses for yourself, telling yourself you'll never be this, that or the other because "they" said so, well you're only hurting yourself. I implore you, choose the right path. Take some personal responsibility and be willing to own up to your choices because if you don't, you only stand to perpetuate the cycle you're so afraid of. But of course, I can't force you to see and maybe you don't really even want to. Maybe you just want to believe this world owes you everything because you graced this planet with your footsteps. Maybe you've got too big of an ego to see the truth that stares you down and will destroy you and the whole while you can cry and scream about how it was everyone else's fault but yours. Tell me, does that sound like something a reasonable, rational person would say or do? Or does that sound like the mentality of a quitter? Would you want to hire a quitter? Be with a quitter? Be friends with a quitter? Associate with a quitter? Or would you be too afraid of catching the quits to care? It's your life, you choose. Personal responsibility, remember?