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Purple Fairy TreePurple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,054
edited May 2021 in All Encompassing Trip
I'm interested in hearing about ways you have successfully fought to overcome injustice and adversity.
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  • tempo_n_groovetempo_n_groove Posts: 41,191
    I’m hoping this is a short thread and not too many people had to face it.
  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    A good hope to have, tempo. Would be nice if it lives up to reality!

    Mine is too personal to share the particulars. 

    I’ll just quote Trent: “I tried, I gave up.”
  • Purple Fairy TreePurple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,054
    edited May 2021
    Never give up! 

    "Don't allow for hopelessness, focus on your focusness ... They giveth and they taketh and you fight to keep that what you've earned"
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  • hedonisthedonist Posts: 24,524
    edited May 2021
    I was thinking...how does one attain empowerment?

    I typically think of it in terms of overcoming something difficult. An ultimate positive, making things right within.

    Some feel it’s about one-upmanship (“Hah, I owned them!”), more of a juvenile negative implication. And is that really growth? Other than egotistically.

    Dunno, just a late-afternoon buzz talking. The mind wanders and wonders. 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,522
    Injustice?  I can't say I've had any major issues that way.  One bogus speeding ticket is all I can think of.  In court the I told the judge I had asked the cop how he had read my speed and that the cop had told me "it was a visual".  The judge looked at the cop and the cop replied, "I have never said those words."  OK, so he's a liar.  The judge had to take the word of the cop but at least he cut the fine in half.  Such is life.

    Adversity?  If defined as "difficulties; misfortune", I've had some including being injured a number of times (broken bones, a concussion), been assaulted twice,  been robbed, have had various illnesses, lived in my vehicle for most of two or three years.  How to overcome those things?  First, I learn to work as hard as I possibly could.  Feel the burn and as much as possible, become tempered like steel.  Second, in reading several of Henry Rollins books, I learned you have two choices:  hack, or pack.  I almost packed, but now I hack.  It's by far the better way to go.  Third: keep moving, movement is life. 
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • Purple Fairy TreePurple Fairy Tree Posts: 2,054
    Hedo  -that bit:

    Typically think of it in terms of overcoming something difficult. An ultimate positive, making things right within.

    Blimey Brian, that sounds tough. Hack or pack?

    Hack!

    Thanks guys xxx
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,522
    West Coast Dreamgirl said:
    Hedo  -that bit:

    Typically think of it in terms of overcoming something difficult. An ultimate positive, making things right within.

    Blimey Brian, that sounds tough. Hack or pack?

    Hack!

    Thanks guys xxx

    "Blimey"  I love that word!  :smiley:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











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