Comments on: How to be resilient

By: robertdwood

robertdwood — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 17:10:46 +0000

That speech from Rocky Balboa gets me every time. It’s astonishing that Stallone was able to make Rocky, have a terrific several decades of success, then produce Rocky Balboa and make another set of iconic moments of how to be a man. You can tell he came into entertainment as a man of his own making, not a man who was made by entertainment. Like Eastwood, it makes a difference in the quality of the work.

For others looking to grow in the outlast/get back up paradigm of masculine thought, Didactic has said rightly. Pick up heavy stuff and get into a martial arts for a bit, you train your mind through body execution. Who who do this know it is true, men who do not cannot understand how well it works.

By: Kapios

Kapios — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 16:12:48 +0000

It gets worse before things get better. Knowing that intellectually and feeling it to every last bone in your body is a big difference as I’ve realized.

There is one subject that I would like to see you tackle in a post sometime in the future, and that is overcoming the fear of death. Not the YOLO I’m taking cocaine and partying kind, but the one that you hear about warriors in the past who had a lot to lose, their lands, properties, families, etc. and yet they were still able to fight as if they were not attached t those things.

How do people do that? I have been thinking about this a lot with the recent trend of mandatory vaccinations.

Someone who had lived in a monastery for more than a decade told me this about a week ago: ‘The threat to lock me up and starve me to death if I don’t put the vaccine will not change my mind. I would rather die of starvation if it comes to that, because it’s my choice’.

My country has not introduced mandatory vaccination like Austria (probably because they are waiting to see what happens with other countries), but I believe the person who told me that. He is not perfect, but he and a few other people who live there have been threatened and harassed by the police, unjustly criticized by others in the past and yet, they haven’t changed their conviction.

By: Didact

Didact — Sun, 05 Dec 2021 13:04:50 +0000

In reply to Jim. Thank you for your kind words, brother, and much respect to you as well. I am very sorry to know of your loss - few things are more cruel than to lose a part of your own soul like that. Fight on, as you do every day, and things WILL get better.

By: Jim

Jim — Fri, 03 Dec 2021 22:40:40 +0000

Thanks for this great advice and encouragement.

My beautiful bride died just over a year ago, and her loss left me a grievously wounded shell. We were married 33 years.

I work full time and have four kids at various stages of careers and schooling, so I’ve had to get up off the mat daily just to keep things afloat.

Like a splash of water on my face, your post today reminded me that I am a fighter; and I’m not giving up!