Life kicks our ass sometimes. There is no way spin it or sugarcoat it. It just really sucks the big one on occasion. I recall taking my first black belt test in 1984 and one of the board members telling me, “You won’t win…we will keep sending people out…we just wanna see if you quit…” The comments were more profound than I ever knew at the time. To be 2011 and still remembering that statement tells you the impact it had on me. In retrospect, the statement is obvious to me now. We are presented with people, things, and events that will indeed kick our ass, but the lesson behind the ass kicking is how will we recover? When we get knocked down, we have a very simple choice, stay on the ground and wonder, or get up and experience what comes next.
We experience things in life that are so damn painful and others that bring us joy on level beyond expression. That comes with the turf. In either case, the choice on the reaction is ours. So I pose the question, and yes I have said it, “Is that all ya got?”
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