Challenges
Second article this week, yeah, I’m on fire
What is a challenge? According to Cambridge Dictionary, a challenge is a situation one faces that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person’s ability. I like this definition it pretty much sums up what I’m going through right now and there are a few streams of realizations I want to put down.
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When faced with a challenge, there are two options; fight or flight. Fight is where you put in all your effort; mentally, physically and personally, spiritually, to face a situation with the hope of coming out successful, winning the fight. The outcome of that fight will determine your strength. Flight is where you say.. you know what? fuck it, I won’t do anything about the challenge and you run, ignore it till it hopefully goes away on its own. Avoiding the problem.
Flighting.. Anytime I am faced with a challenge my first instinct is to run away from it because 1. I feel like I am not strong enough to win the fight.. low self — esteem? 2. I don’t want to fail, failing is embarrassing and it makes me feel and look dumb. Failing does not take the challenge away, it only makes the challenge a bigger one but the thing about failing is it can either make you hopeless or stronger. How does it make you stronger? Makes you stronger when you tell yourself, hey, I’m not going to stay down, I am going to revisit my efforts, see where I went wrong, make the corrections and try fighting once again until you emerge as a winner. Nothing beats the satisfaction in winning a fight, the challenge ends up being worth it in the end. So why not fight from the beginning? Running only makes you miserable. How can you be miserable and be running too?
Strength, I need the strength to fight.
