We all love to win, but who really likes to work too hard to do it? That is the question I start this article with, and it will end “only those who really want to win work hard enough to win”. But, first comes the body of this article.
When I was about eleven or twelve years old, probably earlier, I realized that life was not going to be easy or handed to me easily on a silver platter, I had to earn what I really wanted or make a positive “stink” to get what I wanted. what did he want. I really want it. He wasn’t one of those “cute kids” who could just smile and say what he wanted or even ask politely. No problem. I had to earn it or be pushed down. It remains real, true and valid for me today. What I mean by a positive “stink” is this: people can achieve their goals positively and negatively, do good things and bad things. For the most part, I preferred the good, although I found myself a little off at times, I really preferred the good or desirable ways of getting what I wanted. Because I noticed that some of the other kids around me were going in negative directions, like joining a gang, jumping people, assaulting people, beating people up, stealing from them and things like that, making a “stink” negative. I genuinely believe in gaining what I want without hurting anyone, except in self-defense rather than in an initiation way. Get the meaning there? That’s what I mean by a positive “stink” by the way, in a nutshell or capsule.
So, that brings me to a point: I never started violence, always used self-defense, and pretty much always except for one prominent toy (“Voltron: Defender of the Universe,” the Lion-shaped spaceship game) when I was eight years old . years. I earned everything I had or worked for what I wanted, especially computers and those kinds of things that I built or bought myself. My first three real computers were an eight-bit Atari 800 XE/XL computer with a disk drive, an IBM XT with a cassette tape drive and a disk drive, and an Apple IIe with both disk drives and a disk drive. 1200 baud modem (remember those) and a 300 baud Atari dial-up modem (remember those), by the way, when I was twelve. My parents never bought me anything except the aforementioned toy and my Huffy bike for Christmas when I was seven years old and my mom really didn’t want me to ride it because “it might hurt me” even though I was a cautious kid who didn’t even do the ” no-hands-on-the-handlebar act” on the safest sidewalk, and only fought other kids in self-defense, no intimidation!
So, that brings me to another point: rationality and realistic honesty is a way of life that starts from the beginning of a life, one fully accepts it or not. Irrationality, initiated destructiveness, and crime are weaknesses, right down to the “need” to initiate murder, slash, and steal in order to survive.
I am willing to work and not hurt others and destroy to get what I want to begin with, whatever the cost, I will pay rationally with honesty, I never cut corners or “play with reality”. Sure, I’ll accept help when warranted, but I’m genuinely willing to work straight, hard, and realistically to get what I want. Well that’s the article for me that has my genuine stand on life and it’s going to end “only those who really want to win work hard enough to really win”, even if it takes several tries and a final genuine mastery.