The struggle

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I’ve been trying to create some motivation posts of recent, not ‘cos I want to be recognized as a motivational steemian (Not like I mind either) but because in the past couple of months, I have been privileged once again to experience frustration. I can’t call it frustration at its peak, but it was at great heights. It is not the first time. I’ve once had waves of frustration about 3 years ago, it doesn’t seem like a black or Nigerian thing, but I contemplated suicide.

I contemplated suicide not because I was having mental breakdowns, No…. just because I was lazy, I hate stress, I hate having to deal with issues, I hate things not going my way especially after giving a lot. So, as a lazy person, as always before, I wanted the easy way out.

I got out of it, my cousin motivated me, he had no idea what I was going through, he was just being him, an encourager….. Ever since, I have taken the mantle, I have become an encourager howbeit in my little way.
This section is not to take glory, nor ascribe undue importance or attention, it is to encourage you…..please encourage any and every one u can, no matter how little, we all have issues we are facing, they are most effectively hidden behind pretty smiles, handsome faces, funny personalities, and glamorous outfits

The in-between

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These are discovery and recovery points in life

These are points where you are really not doing, achieving, nor chasing anything, sometimes you might feel like they are times when you are wasting away… well they could be, but they also could be go-betweens, the point at which you relax, you observe, you study yourself and your environments and all other things in the way, the point at which you breathe, you think, you listen.
They are those deployment points in life, that if well managed they launch you far above and beyond what you could have wished for

The triumph

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We all admit to struggling or having struggles, I think it was wired with our being. What we do not pay attention to nor consciously admit most times is that alongside struggles, triumph is also wired in our DNA

Where is it? Why am I not experiencing it?? Are probably questions scrambling to the top of your mind.
Note what I wrote in the first paragraph of this section…”we do not pay attention to, nor consciously admit”. Triumph is in us, you are alive, you can read this, I’m not going generic, but it actually is because you have triumphed in some things.

You know where the problem lies? We magnify little struggles and make insignificant little triumph.
You fail an exam…struggle, you build the nerve to take it again…triumph.
You experience frustrations….struggle, you choose to stay alive….triumph (Kurt Cobain, Robin Williams, Chester Bennington had the fame and money, but still lost, and you don’t think you have something special that’s helping you win? triumph)

When life hits you in the face and you don’t stay down, it is triumph
If you are pushing towards something, trying to get a degree, a job, a wife, anything, the act in itself is triumph, in case you didn’t know there are lifeless living people, they exist, but retired, not doing, not chasing, just passing time.

As a kid I did not see a lot of cartoons, one of the few I did had the song “as long as wheels keep rolling we will get somewhere someday” Keep rolling, that’s triumph in itself, getting there is just being awarded the medal.

I live by a weird principle, I heard it subconsciously “You can not defeat someone who doesn’t quit”

It’s the most powerful, most instructive quote I know.

You make posts, you get $0.46, you are like “oh, the struggle”….. I say “oh! The triumph” I can make a post, I got skills, and my post is worth something.

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WE GUH STRUGGLES, THEY COME WITH TRIUMPH …… KEEP WINNING

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