We fall, so that we can get back up. As humans there is no greater triumph than to prevail in the face of adversity. We all make mistakes, yes some more than others, but that is nothing to be ashamed of. Every single person is put on the Earth to carry out a purpose. We are not born knowing what this purpose is, but instead it is discovered and molded by the opportunities and adversities that we face throughout our lives. Yet, it isn't just those opportunities and adversities that influence our purpose and who we are. It is also how we individually and collectively assess and react to what is presented to us. Some of us may choose to follow the easier path, others will choose the hard path. Both of these paths leads to different destinations,
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Unfortunately for them it CAN be either, opportunities are what you make of them. A negative opportunity can easily be turned into a negative one and vice versa. Say you're an athlete and you suffer an injury that sidelines you for a while, most people would turn this into a negative opportunity and sit around, become last, and in the end have a negative impact on your athletic career. As I said earlier opportunities are mostly how you react to them, so if you wanted to turn this into a positive opportunity then, you would remain use this to work on your IQ of the sport, become a smarter …show more content…
I cannot stress how much this angers me. You must, I repeat must, create opportunities for yourself. Put yourself into a position to be successful, there is no reason for anyone, especially living in a first world country to not be successful to a degree. We are given a free high school education and more benefits than we know what to do with.
Fight
Fighting. Fighting is absolutely necessary. If you want something in this world or you have something that someone wants, odds are at some point you will fight for it. Although in traditional fighting, the objective is to strike your opponent into submission, it's quite the opposite in life. Life is going to throw everything it has at you, sometime during your life, everything is going to be against you. You're going to have to be able to take that, if not then you'll end up like a lot of people today. Scared of the world, in my eyes the “failures” of the world are the ones who are afraid of it.
Unfortunately for them it CAN be either, opportunities are what you make of them. A negative opportunity can easily be turned into a negative one and vice versa. Say you're an athlete and you suffer an injury that sidelines you for a while, most people would turn this into a negative opportunity and sit around, become last, and in the end have a negative impact on your athletic career. As I said earlier opportunities are mostly how you react to them, so if you wanted to turn this into a positive opportunity then, you would remain use this to work on your IQ of the sport, become a smarter …show more content…
I cannot stress how much this angers me. You must, I repeat must, create opportunities for yourself. Put yourself into a position to be successful, there is no reason for anyone, especially living in a first world country to not be successful to a degree. We are given a free high school education and more benefits than we know what to do with.
Fight
Fighting. Fighting is absolutely necessary. If you want something in this world or you have something that someone wants, odds are at some point you will fight for it. Although in traditional fighting, the objective is to strike your opponent into submission, it's quite the opposite in life. Life is going to throw everything it has at you, sometime during your life, everything is going to be against you. You're going to have to be able to take that, if not then you'll end up like a lot of people today. Scared of the world, in my eyes the “failures” of the world are the ones who are afraid of it.