You know how strong you are.

You've simply forgotten.

See, sometimes life is a game of consistency.

It requires that you show up and give all you've got.

And sometimes life reminds you that all you've got

is a fabricated story hovering six layers above what you're really made of it reminds you that all you've got is what you tell yourself

when you fall short so as to rationalize the outcome, pat yourself on the back.

All you've got is a hedge.

A reason to not have to fully enter the belly of the beast.

It's one point flickering away amidst an infinite galaxy of stars, you can't

talk about all you've got

because you have no idea

what that is.

And what I want to know

is are you

willing to peel it back, to rip that cover off,

to stop talking about your best and all you've got,

and instead find within yourself a place that transcends anything the mind wants to quantify and put a ribbon on.

Inside you, there is a well so deep you could pull from it now until the end of time.

Let the question evolve from does more exist to am I willing to reach down, to draw from it my potential, my strength, my resilience?

You think the external world is big.

The world within is one with no bounds. It is forever. I've pushed myself physically

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