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You know how a sword is made?
Sure. You take some metal, heat it up real hot, then smash it with a big ol’ hammer until it’s the shape you want it.
Pretty much. But if you really want to make a weapon that will make the man that weilds it a king amoung men? You have to keep doing that. Heating and hammering and folding over and over and over again, hundreds and thousands of times.
Building yourself is the same. The world is the anvil and your life is the hammer—it’s up to you how long and how hard to swing. Most people give a tap or two, then figure it’s too hard and stop there. This is why most people are basically lumps of pig iron that just roll along.
But if you want to be the person who is like unto a razor blade to trachea of society, cleaving through the bullshit and stupidity and ignorance, you can never stop. Never satisfied, you have to continually refine your self, folding the steel of your mind over and over.
Originally posted to OccasionallyCogent on September 27, 2009