Beware Of The Monster Called Despair!
When you are at the top, be careful of the monster called PRIDE. Pride will make you look down on the people who haven't been lucky to attain your level of success. Likewise, when you are at the bottom, be careful of the monster called BITTERNESS. Bitterness will make you jealous and think that - others have been the reason why you haven't made it. When you are on your way to the top, be careful of the monster called GREED. Greed will make you impatient and make you steal or seek shortcuts. When you are on your way down, be careful of the monster called DESPAIR . Despair will make you think it's all over!! Yet there is still hope!
The message is this simple: Avoid PRIDE, BITTERNESS, GREED and DESPAIR. Just concentrate on your GOALS. And be ever willing to share your failures and successes with others. Share with others the lessons learned in the real world - which is often unfair and unkind!
I am ever grateful to God to have found myself among this wonderful community at WA!
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Great post. I struggle with despair on the way up. I get afraid of all that I don't know and how I will ever achieve success with such a huge mountain in front of me. Just doing one day at a time and keep pushing the fear and despair back down and say two things to myself (which is posted on my wall to see everyday)
1. I will never quit
2. I will make progress everyday, no matter how small or large that progress is.
Moving forward!
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I disagree with pride, I think it's essential to be proud of yourself. When you fail to take pride in your work what will that do to it? You will not care about the finished product as much as you could when you have taken the time to know why you need to be proud of putting forth your best efforts.
Bitterness can be motivational because you will increase your strongest desires to pursue the same things as another. As long as you figure out your own reasons for going after something it's more than okay to use it for the advantage.
Greed is a way for you to become humble. You want to use what somebody else has done to teach you a valuable lesson. It's not as important to obsess about money and how much of it you can make if you are going to be unhappy about what it has lead you to become.
Despair or rock bottom, it's a powerful way to test your own limits. Do not give yourself too much to handle of you will become something you will not enjoy. Coming back from the bottom teaches you how to avoid the same pitfalls. Without a bottom, there isn't a top.
You won't need to depend on anything other than yourself because you will get all that you can handle when you believe that you are the most important being. The universe which you are a part of is the reason you exist and without it, there wouldn't be anything else to pursue. Find your truth to believe in the best things for yourself because there won't be anyone or anything that will do it for you.
Eric
I have fallen in love with your deep and highly philosophical analysis. Great pointers!