The Strongest Survive
Not exactly politically correct but it is the truth. And that is what matters, the truth.
Many people shy away from competition from a fight. This is a natural inclination as it is natural to seek the easier option. We are inherently lazy and this is something we must fight everyday. The smoother and easier path will feel good in the moment but ultimately cause more pain in the end.
There are many examples of this I can think of. Masturbating to porn instead of going out and talking to women. Paying for something in installments instead of fronting the cash. Lying in bed for that extra thirty or so minutes instead of getting up and hitting the gym. Watching TV instead of sitting down and reading a chapter out of a book. Mindlessly surf social media instead of writing up your next blog post or working on your book.
The examples are literally endless and they all have one theme in common. Taking the easier wrong over the harder right. Instant gratification over delayed. Taking the penny now over the dollar tomorrow.
Doing this before had instant consequences. You didn’t hunt, you then starved to death. You got out of shape, you were soon picked off.
However we are now sheltered from the Darwinian system of survival. Yet the rules are still in effect. Get fat, emasculated, and lazy and its only a matter of time before your girlfriend is picked up by someone who isn’t fat, emasculated, and lazy. Unless of course she becomes fat, masculine, and lazy.
Competition is still in effect and because of this we must work hard everyday to ensure that we are able to weather what the future holds.
Competition is King
Competition is great. Competition though looked down on in our society of sheep is essential to a man’s development. To fight and sharpen yourself against other men to come out bigger, faster, stronger, smarter, and more. Like it says in the Bible “As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another”.
For those of who you may not have men to compete against in your life your not excused. You’re never excused. The greatest competition will be with yourself. To be better than you were yesterday. It is a relentless never ending competition. One that can be the most rewarding.
Never shy away from competition, from a fight. Embrace every opportunity to put your nuts on the line and go for it. Embrace the fighting spirit. The warrior that resides deep inside of you. That resides deep inside of every man. Society will try to get you to shun it but you must fight against that programming and embrace it.
Competition is a gift. A gift from God for the betterment of man.
The Illusion of Comfort
Comfort…is a lie.
Most humans seek comfort. It is a natural inclination. However in today’s world it will constantly elude you or even once achieved may be taken away at any time.
Comfort is what makes the middle-class. The disappearing middle-class. Most do not strive for riches or for greatness. They are content with just getting by. With having “enough” Unfortunately when the tides turn against them, as they are. They will soon find that their comfort was a lie. That their assurance of the life they were promised will be taken from them.
The rich will not have this problem because they went higher. They went after growth, success, to be the best instead of being “okay” or having “enough”. Only the rich can hope to have what the middle-class believes they have and even then nothing is guaranteed.
So What Does This Mean?
It means be the best. It means fight the good fight and never back down. It means embrace competition as the gift that it is. Let it invigorate your fighting spirit, your masculine spirit, your inner warrior. Don’t accept being a loser or even worse being “average”.
Strive, fight, win.
The opposite of great is not bad. There are plenty of people who have come up from nothing. The desperate have the drive, the hunger, the fight. They know that there is much work to be done. On themselves and on their dreams. They know that competition is always there and that it can be used to better themselves. It is the middle, the good as opposed to great that have the most to worry about. They sit back because they think they are better than the bad. They look down when they should be looking up. Don’t get me wrong there are rich and poor people with this mentality. It just that being good at something usually hinders greatness more than sucking at something.
Remember you cannot run from competition and nor should you. Embrace it and strive to become the best that you can be. That is the only true path that will lead to fulfillment.
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-Charles Sledge
