06-22-2016, 01:35 PM
I went up to the hills yesterday with intent to conquer highest peek out there. It wasn't a hard task, but I took a bad path and went through the forest trail. I had GPS so I knew I wouldn't get lost and I knew where the trail is. I decided to go with the trail as long as it lasted and hope to find the trail. I found it, but it was up beyond a very steep ascent. I tried to get it once, I failed. I tried second time, failed. I got my hands and boots dirty, I thought my feet would fall off from the fatigue of ascending and descending. I thought I will give up and get all the way down, but I found another way. And I did it! Tired and exhausted, dirty but exalted and happy beyond belief! I got through the steep hillside, through mad and wet leafs. I did it against all odds.
Of course it was only the beginning, I still had hilltop to conquer and another 8km or so of returning to the camp. But at that moment, when I ascended from the forest into the track, I felt more alpha than ever before. I was more alpha when I got myself a girlfriend or when I lost my virginity. I was more alpha than during what others would call my biggest triumphs. Because this is what being alpha is about, not getting pussy or proving others how successful you are. Being alpha is about conquering your weaknesses, your doubts and believing you can do anything. I could have lost hope and backtrack, but I didn't. I decided to press forward rather than to look back and it was probably the best experience of my life.
Of course it was only the beginning, I still had hilltop to conquer and another 8km or so of returning to the camp. But at that moment, when I ascended from the forest into the track, I felt more alpha than ever before. I was more alpha when I got myself a girlfriend or when I lost my virginity. I was more alpha than during what others would call my biggest triumphs. Because this is what being alpha is about, not getting pussy or proving others how successful you are. Being alpha is about conquering your weaknesses, your doubts and believing you can do anything. I could have lost hope and backtrack, but I didn't. I decided to press forward rather than to look back and it was probably the best experience of my life.
For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
