Sometimes, it stings like alcohol on a fresh cut..

Sometimes, it stings like alcohol on a fresh cut...

Ouch, we've been through it over and over again, when your only recourse left is to pour alcohol over a fresh cut.  Not because you liked it but it's because that's your only option left.  Such is life as well.  Often times, we gotta swallow a tough pill to take, dump away our ego and go through the agony you gotta endure if you're in a NO-WIN situation, leaving you with nothing but one last option.

Here's the thing.  Life is never easy.  We were not born just to walk along the park, have our cake and eat it too.  You can born with a golden spoon like the Trumps but trust me, even the Trump scions will go through the gauntlet, you'll have your fair share of ordeals.  You could be the commoner or someone from the lowest caste in the Indian culture but nothing sets him apart from the Trumps, Fords and Rockefellers.

And if we were to re-live our lives all over again, of late, I realized that ideally, framing the right philosophy can lead you towards the track that may have less intersections, lesser road crossings, situations which often befuddle us till we end up deciding on the wrong turn.  At hindsight, if at our first cry as a new-born, had we been told that we will be sent to the barren deserts and search for water and oil under the scorching sun, we would have become battle-hardened when we finally face the toughest ordeals in life.

To quote Horace the great Roman poet, 'rule your mind or it will rule you'.  And frankly, our own minds is multi-sided, multi-faceted.  As you reckon to make a decision, one side pulls you towards the left and the other side pulls you the other direction.  And it's your call by then.

And that's our unseen foe, that foe from deep within us. Think of it, if one side entices you to sell off for a short-term gain but which may lead you towards a losing long-term proposition ?  What if one side tempts you to throw under the bus the people closest to you ? Thing is, you don't distribute sound bites to create a reaction, right ?  And if you have to start from the bottom of the barrel, and scrape that bottom all over again, so be it, even if that's akin to alcohol getting poured on that fresh cut.  At the end of the day, you 

don't want to get stuck in mediocrity.  Neither would you want your ass to get kicked and kicked harder and harder, right ?  Nor do you want to be that perennial whipping boy, wallowing in grief and pain ?  Here's the deal, why can't you believe enough in yourself by surprising everyone when you go waltzing your way to your own narrative, that success story yet to be told ? And dude, if people are hardly giving you a puncher's chance, thats a helluva opportunity for you to pull a rabbit from nowhere and prove all the naysayers that, all along, they were and are still damn wrong.  You'll have the last laugh, dude, and you deserve that ! ✅✅✅