FRIDAY THOUGHTS #36: CLIMBING

Climbing.

There are times when life just hits you from every corner...and you just stop quietly and ponder the question: why? Like...God what's really going on here? Especially if it seems like you've been perpetually in a winter season...and for once your expectations are the seasons will change - yet you find out that there is still time on the clock.  Yes...still time and still more jungle to travel through. It's a gutting feeling...to just ponder. You know in your heart you'll climb out of it...but you just ponder and say "damn...this is a shot". Listen, I'm a fighter so I love a good shot, I always have respect for my sparring partners when they hit me with a good shot.  I actually just had some real heavy sparring this past week - bloodied the guys nose and he left parts of my face sore for the rest of the week lol, it was great sparring. I had respect for his shots...in the same vein, I have respect for these shots in life.

You see...I've had a crazy 4 years. I lost both of my parents within two years, my mother 4 years ago. I moved to Canada...brand new circle, new friends to create. Had two breakups with women I deeply loved...lost my job during the month of my last breakup in December, got a new job weeks later but the hrs were not enough, however, just this week landed a brand new gig...it's a big company so the hrs should be great. Just launched my very own company I've been working on for 4 years last week, had to borrow money to complete it - will payback quickly. Bottomline of what I am saying is that it's not the end of the world...but shit, a lot has happened in a small amount of time. Going through challenges are painful...but there is always growth from it in the end.

Listen, this blog is not try and act like I'm a saint and life is just a ball of roses lol not at all - it's tough man and I hope this blog encourages everyone reading to keep going despite the challenges. Listen, I know it's rough out there...but I also know it won't always be. Sometimes tons of shit just has to happen in your life in a short period of time to destroy everything around you...so you can build it back up, but stronger this time.

Storms of life don't come to destroy, although it may feel like that. It doesn't man...it comes to build. I get it...it's not a good feeling to have to climb out of a space, it sucks. It's not fun at all...but it's just a part of the process.  I look back on my worst challenges in life...and years later I am thankful for them all. Did it break my heart? Into fucking pieces...without question, however, I am a better version of myself because of it. That's just the way it is...your season will come. If something in your life is destroyed and you have to climb...get excited. Your season will come. It has to...seasons always change. Stay encouraged...there's always a solution - continue to look for it.

#blessings 👊🏽