Shadows of Iron
Sometimes the days and weeks blur together in one seemingly collective mess. You’re so caught up in the daily grind you forget to dream and to make goals for yourself. It’s hard. I know. When you are payin’ your dues and putting the time in, the last thing on your mind is goal setting.
I find those are the most important times to take a step back and draw new conclusions and create new paths to follow. To me, becoming the best version of myself is outlining who/what I want to become and following through with that plan. Never giving in to the masses, the ones that would tell you that what you seek is impossible to find. "Impossible" is completely out of my dictionary now. Now the days and weeks mean something more to me the a mess of hours and minutes. Time is the source of making the impossible possible for me. Time spent training, eating, recovering, and learning.
Consequently, I am drawn to the path of the solitary lifestyle. Life, to me, is not about surrounding yourself with people that give you joy, it is about you creating joy within yourself so that those around you are filled with joy. Thus, I am better, stronger, more powerful, than before and because of this those around me are as well. Where do we find this joy within ourselves? Well, I propose that everyone has their calling and people know themselves much better than I can make a generalization about. So I don’t assume to know at all. What I do know is that the strong-willed will always carry the heavy weight of the world upon their shoulders looking down at shadows of iron between their feet.
