He does not treat defeat as if it were a matter of indifference to him, saying things like
Oh, it doesn’t matteror
To be honest, I didn’t really want it that much.He accepts defeat as defeat and does not try to make a victory out of it.
Painful wounds, the indifference of friends, the loneliness of losing-all leave a bitter taste. But at these times, he says to himself:
I fought for something and did not succeed. I lost the first battle.These words give him renewed strength. He knows that no one wins all the time and he knows how to distinguish his successes from his failures.
From the The Manual of the Warrior of Light by Paulo Coehlo.
Little Wonders
Rob Thomas
Let it go
Let it roll right off your shoulder
Don't you know
The hardest part is over
Let it in
Let your clarity define you
In the end
We will only just remember how it feels
Been doing a lot of "letting go" lately.
What a funny coincidence. That gym is very familiar to me - when I worked in Asia, our corporate hotel was the Holiday Inn Atrium. I must have been in the gym (overlooking the pool) 100 times - and there was usually no one there but me!
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