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It's good to be beaten up from time to time. You've been kicked around by life. That's true where other people had it easy. You've had to struggle you didn't get into the college. You wanted your parents couldn't buy you a car. You had to wear glasses you watched as other people hit it out of the park on their first. Try getting breaks that you've had to work your ass off for you've been insulted. You've been fired you've been crapped on and you've been brought to tears. It's unfair you say it'd be better if it had happened. Otherwise
But is that true? Do you know that for a fact no prize fighter can go with High Spirits Into The Strife if he has never been beaten black and blue Seneca wrote to his friend. Lucilius. The only contestant who can confidently enter. The lists is the man who has seen his own blood who is felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponents fists who has been trip and felt the full force of his adversaries charge who has been downed in body, but not in spirit one who has often as he falls rises again with
Ater Defiance than ever. So yeah, you've been kicked around but that's a good thing because it taught you something at the very least it taught you something about yourself. You unlike most people now know what you are capable of you know that you're tough. You know that you get up after you've been knocked down you have tasted your own blood and are not afraid to risk tasting it again. It's good that this happened and you're still standing not everyone was so lucky.
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