Hurt Me.
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Beat me and bruise me.
Pound me in my gut.
Put your fist through my face and elbow the shit out of my faults.
Bloody my nose and break my smile. Give my optimism a black eye. Leave my faith sore and staggered and swollen.
Kick me when I fall.
Knock the wind out of my belief and have me gasping for answers… Drag me down to your level so I can remember the smell.
I want to feel your hate. I want to taste your venom. I want to see your envy oozing from my pores. Daze me with your jealousy and stone me with your deceit.
Rip me to shreds.
Because progress does not come without penalty. Potential is not met without punishment. Peace is not found without panic.
And promise is a sucker punch away…
It must be painful before it becomes possible.
So hit me… Because I can take it. And my dreams are too big to be handled lightly. And my bar is too high to touch with gentle fingers.
I don’t want average or OK or good enough. I don’t want better.
So hurt me.
Because it hurts to be great.
Kash $
I like it! You’ve gotta go thru hell before you can get to heaven.
Thanks Pops! Heaven will feel better after our feet our burnt from the fire!
Keep pushing thru and doing great things… you’re inspiring friends and strangers alike… never forget that impact you have! Lu.
Thanks b.
Your support means a lot.
Kash
Perspectivism: You may be misgiven, you may be mistaking. By whose measure are you
somebody? Anyone who really is somebody, doesn’t have that sense of themselves, and
didn’t have that as a goal motivating them to become who they are or were. They eschew
being “somebody,” because a head so big with ego leaves no room for anything significant, as evinced by Donald Trump, G W Bush, fill in legions of names here. Also, anyone can be broken. If they arrest you and torture is on the menu, you may resist the falange and water boarding, but when they tell you the truth that your father hung himself and your mother pulled her hair out, you will break like a 10 year old child. In combat you will be a hero under fire one day and run the next, and there’s no way to predict it, and no man is above it, and especially a man who relies on his ego for character. William James was a man decent as you’ll find. Read his Principles of Psychology if you would know what makes a man. For an example of “somebody,” whose own thought of that is guarded from entering the mind I should think, watch Sarah Brightman sing Time to Say Goodbye with Andrea Bocelli http://youtu.be/Nl9WMIPzd6w See how tenderly she is with him. All the money, power, and celebrity in the world could not buy that. That is your model to be somebody, when your heart swells like that and brings a concert hall to tears. How wonderful. You think she is thinking that she is somebody? She is thinking with her heart, how to give the best in her to every person in that concert hall, to touch their lives with grace and beauty, a rare gift in this time of the decadence of this culture of superficial values.
Hey Rocky,
Great points… I agree. #besomebody is a lifestyle, not a destination. It’s about making sure your live and lead with passion, and purpose, and principles… making sure your heart is BIGGER than your ego… and most of all, it’s whatever you want it to be… everyday is an evolution, and no bar is high enough. We keep going…
Kash
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