To Recover, the Price Point is Steep
Life is life. It is as it is. It was never meant to be either paradise or utopia. Neither a bed of roses nor a walk in the park. In truth and in fact, life is not for the weaker ones, not for the weaklings, not for the softies, not for ‘marshmallows’.
Failures. Faux Pas. Blunders. Take it with a grain of salt. No one can’t be shielded from it. At various points in our lives, we were at our lowest point, the lowest ebb. But that’s A-ok. We’ll be find. What won’t be A-ok if we leave things at that, if we throw the towel, if we give up, if we call it quits. Regrettably, not one of us has a Teflon suit to shield us from that tipping point. Heard of the spate of Korean actresses whose life succumbed from all the pressures in life despite the hefty commercial contracts they have been having?
The mother of all ironies is this. We now live in a very digitized world but take a step back because our lives can NEVER be digitized. There is no reset option, no password recovery, no automated script to spring us out from a deep morass. Instead, you need to morph and push yourself farther and harder. You will never never never hit a homerun. Don’t hope on sheer luck and happenstance to lift you back in recovery mode.
This pandemic? Oh geez, where goes the underprivileged, the hapless, the helpless souls, the innocent poor kids who are left to fend for themselves as their parents scrape around for whatever is worth it? I’d like to quote Mark DenBraber, a high schooler who’s been into too much steep mountains to climb in life when he said: ‘It’s not easy to change the way we think about these things, but if we take it one brick at a time, we will eventually be left with rubble we can clean up and throw away’. Key here is ‘clearing the rubble’, cleaning up the mess. Only then can you REBOOT, RESET and RESTART all over again.
On the contrary, we heard many success stories ending up in utter failures. Why? It’s when they let their successes get into their head. On the same breadth, when we fail, never let failure get into your heart because if it does, it will break your spirit and your soul.
Plan A? Plan B? That’s just NOT enuf. These days, do and go what it takes if you need to craft a Plan C or even a Plan D. As this typical signage goes, there’s a steep climb ahead, you gotta speed up.
Here’s a quote from a typical commoner but it surely hits our nerves: ‘I will never tell you recovery is easy. I will never sugarcoat it for you because the truth of the matter is that it’s [fucking] hard and you’re gonna have to fight like hell. But the good news is that it’s totally worth the struggle’.
One gentle reminder though. On your road back to recovery, the price point is steep but that's very much worth it once you get over the hump.
