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Success is Always the Best Revenge
How to fight the system by winning on your own
Honestly, when it comes to the idea of personal responsibility in a vacuum, I have a problem with it.
Do you have agency over your life? Yes. But it’s not as if one hundred percent of what’s happened to you in your life is your fault. Nope, sometimes pure chance and circumstance come into the equation — more often then your typical neighborhood guru would like to admit.
I don’t know you. I don’t know exactly what you’ve been through, how hard your life is, or how much of that difficulty through no fault of your own. But I’m almost certain of one thing — the calvary isn’t coming.
See, the so-called calvary is just another one of the circumstances and roadblocks in your life. I hate these people. Politicians, pundits, bad actors on every side of the aisle you can think of who have every incentive to make you feel even more helpless than you already find yourself feeling at times.
Whereas someone like me tries to honor the place you’re coming from, they act like the place you come from is a death sentence. Unless, of course, they come to save you. But they never actually come, do they? They make the same promises, fail to keep them, and shuffle in and out — a musical chairs of promise makers who get nothing…
