06/28/2022
If you fold upon yourself, you cry out it hurts just to avoid the work you needed to do with others, why then do you question them turning their backs upon you ? You want to be in the band of brothers, yet you make excuses as to why you will not sweat & bleed with them. Laugh the next day, with your partners about how sore your muscles are, & the jammed fingers, bloody lips, & scraped elbows which ail you. You hide, shoulders hunched in the corner waiting to be accepted, saying you have other things to do. They keep wading into the pool, swimming ever stronger, and farther, not looking back anymore as you flounder in the puddles on the shore. Stand up, be a man ! Shake the nonsense of it hurts, I can't, and fill your mind of where you want to be & what it TAKES TO GET THERE. Nothing is pain free except that which will drag you down.
Sottam Anad