GENTLEMEN WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF YOU DECIDED TO GRAB LIFE BY THE THROAT
AND SAY IM IN CHARGE .

AND YOU SAY WELL YEAH...SOUNDS GOOD IN THEORY, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS
OUT OF MY CONTROL....

FOR EXAMPLE THE KAREN IN FRONT OF ME BITCHING ABOUT HOW THE TOILET PAPER
SHE BOUGHT YESTERDAY GAVE HER ASS A RASH.

ORR ON A MORE SERIOUS NOTE....CANCER ROBBED YOU OF A LOVED ONE.,..AND THE
SO CALLED WOMAN OF YOUR DREAMS, TURNED OUT TO BE MORE CANCEROUS THAN ACTUAL
CANCER,

AND YES SHIT HAPPENS BUT PART OF HOLDING LIFE DOWN IN A CHOKE HOLD IS KNOWING
SOMETIMES THE DIRTY BASTARD DOESN'T PLAY FAIR.

BUT INSTEAD OF HUNKERING DOWN IN THE SHADOWS OF WHAT CAN SEEM LIKE AN UNFAIR LIFE
 WE LET THAT HATRED FOR THE UNPLEASANT DRIVE US TOWARDS MORE.

AND BY MORE I MEAN, WHATEVER THE HELL WE CAN IMAGINE.....IMAGINATION CAN BE MAN'S
BEST FRIEND...WHEN THOSE LOFTY ASPIRATIONS MEET THE MEASURES REQUIRED TO GET THERE.

SEE KAREN AND HER MALE EQUIVALENT ,,,,LET'S CALL HIM DICK.... THEY LIKE TO LOOK OUTSIDE
AND SEE THE CLOUDS AND START BITCHING ABOUT HOW ITS GOING TO RAIN AND LIFE SUCKS..BLAH BLAH BLAH

BUT YOU,.... YOU'RE TIRED OF LIVING A FRAGILE LIFE, A FEEBLE LIFE, THAT DISGUSTING
FEELING THAT WE'VE ALL CARRIED, WHERE WE COMPARE OURSELVES TO SOMEONE WE ADMIRE
THEN THINK, HELL I WISH.

CAN YOU REMEMBER AS A KID IN THE BACKYARD ACTING LIKE YOU WERE YOUR FAVORITE ATHLETE.
"AND TOM BRADY LAUNCHES THE LAST SECOND HAIL MARY FOR THE WIN"

YOU STOOD AT THE TOP OF THE BED AND SOARED OFF THE TOP ROPE AS YOU CAME DOWN HEROICALLY
LANDING ON YOUR SMALLER COUSIN....THEN PINNING HIS ASS AS THE CROWD GOES WILD.

THEN CAME IN YOUR ARCH NEMESIS,,,,YOUR MOM,,,THROWING HAYMAKERS FOR YOU PICKING ON THE WEAKER FOE.

HAS MUCH CHANGED IN THAT BRILLIANT MIND OF OURS....IN THE SHOWER WE THINK OF THE WHAT IFS
MAYBE WE PRACTICE OUR SPEECH WHEN GIVEN THAT AWARD.

WE GO FOR A HIKE AND ACT AS IF WE ARE CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST.

WE PUT ON THE SUIT FOR THAT OCCASION AND INSTANTLY GO INTO A JAMES BOND MINDSET

AS KIDS WE SAW LIFE AS A GAME, AN ADVENTURE...WE PICKED UP A STICK AND IT INSTANTLY
TRANSFORMED INTO AN AK 47...

TRANSFORMATION, THAT'S THE KEY HERE....WE WANT BETTER, AND MAYBE WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET THERE.
MAYBE WE FEEL FORCED TO REMAIN FOREVER STUCK RIGHT WHERE WE ARE AT.

BUT HERE'S MY QUESTION, THE KID IN YOU, THE ONE HURLING HIMSELF OFF THE TOP ROPE
THE KID IMAGINING HIMSELF STANDING ATOP MOUNT EVEREST.

WOULD THAT GUY, WHEN HIS BACK WAS AGAINST THE WALL AFTER PULLING OFF THE GREATEST HEIST IN HISTORY....
SURRENDER JUST BECAUSE THE GREATEST FBI AGENT WAS AT THE OTHER END OF THE BRIDGE.....


HELL NO,,,HE PULLS SOME MCGAEYUVER SHIT, AND PARACHUTES OFF THE BRIDGE...OR JUMPS INTO THE
AWAITING HELICOPTER HE HAS WITTINGLY PLANNED AHEAD FOR.

THE GREATEST THING WE CAN EVER COME TO REALIZE, IS LIFE IS A GAME, AND IT REWARDS THOSE WITH BIG IMAGINATIONS
COUPLED WITH BIG ASS ACTIONS.


SO ASK YOURSELVES, WHO DO YOU WANT TO BE....THEN START CREATING THAT CHARACTER WITH THE REQUIRED CHARACTERISTICS.
AND YOU SAY WELL ISNT THAT JUST ACTING, ISNT THAT UNAUTHENTIC,,,ISNT THAT FAKE....

HERES A BETTER QUESTION....THE LIFE YOU'RE LIVING RIGHT NOW...IS IT AUTHENTIC....I WOULD SUGGEST THE
LIFE YOU'RE LIVING NOW IS THE FAKEST SHIT POSSIBLE...

YOUR AUTHENTIC SELF RESEMBLES THAT CHILD LIKE FAITH THAT WENT LOOKING FOR ADVENTURE AND'
KNEW HOW TO PLAY THE GAME CALLED LIFE.

THE SHIT WEVE SETTLED FOR IS NOT OUR TRUE SELF....ITS AN ILLUSION GIVEN TO US BY SOMEONE ELSE
THATS MUCH BETTER AT PLAYING THE GAME.
SOOO, GRAB YOUR STICK, START CLIMBING MOUNT EVEREST, AND WHEN LIFE SEEMS TO HAVE YOU CORNERED
USE YOUR IMAGINATION AND NAVIGATE YOUR SELF OUT OF THE HAIRY SITUATION.

YOURE A MAN CREATED TO GRAB LIFE BY THE THROAT AND TO LIVE OUT YOUR POTENTIAL