If you live long enough, a lot of stuff will come against you.

Somebody in your family going to die.

Somebody in here going to get fired.

Somebody here going to get an eviction notice.

Somebody going to get laid off.

Somebody going to get laid off.

Somebody going to break up with you.

That's life for what you going to do by by it though there's some things down in you you

haven't even discovered yet your wisdom is gonna be made from the elixir of your pain you don't know

what you've got until all hell breaks loose you don't know what you can take until the pressure is applied to your life.

You don't know what you can endure until people stab you in the back and walk away from you.

You don't know how much courage you have until you've been under fire and under struggle and under tribulation.

You can't learn what's in you

sitting back in a lazy boy chair

hitting the remote control

watching HBO and Cinesh

but when all hell breaks loose.

When you say

I can't take this, I can't handle this,

I don't want anymore, this is driving me crazy,

you are saying I don't want to go any higher. Because moving forward and moving up means more problems. Right now, you're being tried. You're being forged. You're being tested by fire and by pain.

If you don't let it break you, if you don't let it destroy you, if you don't whip out and let it beat you down, if you refuse to be intimidated and learn how to manage distress on the next level, then doors swing open.

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