RAGE ON
25 November 2024
RAGE ON by RISE PILIPINO
There comes a time in a person’s life, when you are sick and tired of all the push and the shoves, and you start raging!
You rage, for all the times you took it all in silence. You rage, for all the moments past when you pursed your lips, ever careful not to utter a word of complaint, lest you be misunderstood and those you care for suffer the unintended consequences of your actions. You rage, for all the times you had to make yourself small, so you don’t outshine your many masters.
You rage!
But rather than hurt yourself unnecessarily....rather than get back, strike back, fight back at your perceived or real enemies, you raged a different kind.
You mustered all the strength that you had your hands on. You took stock, learnt what you needed to rise above what others saw as your weakness, or pettiness, or perceived inadequacies. You rolled them altogether into a tight ball, moved the ball closest to your chest where your heart beats, and you worked on yourself - like some madman on a mission.
Now you look back, and ask yourself, where did this journey begin? Does it have an end?
Yes, it does.
It ends where you decide it will.
Another journey begins.
Or, you can choose to get yourself off the road if this has been nothing but crap, and own your life, your self, your newly-found tools, and you carve a life that veers away from where you thought you were headed before. You can make up your own rules.
Do you remember the times
when you wanted to scream?
In the night. In the shadows.
In the rain. To the dark clouds.
To the waves as they rushed ashore.
That same ball of rage is there
deep inside your belly.
Don’t let it go. Use it.
Carve it to your desire.Never let go.
Life is one raging tide that comes into the shore that is ourselves, again, and again, and again.
We either grow weary from the endless cycle of being washed to shore. Or we grow strong, as each tide comes in.
Ours is the power.
We have a choice.
Rage on.
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