Getting back up again...

Rocky films are cheesy. Fact
But Rocky films have a strange way to show you the power of perseverance.
Rocky was an underdog and the odds were always against him, he gets hit time after time but what makes him a champion in life is that he gets back up after being hit harder and harder every single time.
That's life for you.
Life will hit you in many different ways, via loss of health, via loss of family and friends, loss of jobs, loss of partners and the list goes on.

What really tests your will and your soul is not the pain, but the endurance of the pain that, if prolonged is called suffering.
Remove the word suffering from your vocabulary.
Pain is what it is, a deep sense of discomfort in your body, mind, and soul but the continuation of it is called suffering and that is just masochism. That is not loving yourself because you get addicted to that feeling and then you become a victim.


We all have been victims at any time of our life and Caroline Myss, a spiritual author that I have great respect for, says that we all have the Victim archetype in our psyche.
The challenge is not to let it take over, it is to understand it, and understand our fragilities and getting back up for another round.
I will not stand down, I will get back up every single time I get rattled!