“Your failures are the only thing that make them feel good”, I continue speaking as I recline in the seat by the window in the cafe by the beach, “your enemy is your biggest cheerleader for wrong behavior. Pushing you to make bad choices and take risky moves, they’ll get you off your course and into an area where your loss is inevitable, yo.”
“I don’t think that I have any one not cheering for me, yo.”
“Listening to the crowd is the surest sign that you are living outside the confines of the group. When you see the trees, you are not in the forrest, yo.”
“I like to be in the middle of everything”, he replies as he turns his head to me.
“No doubt that at the center of your universe, you lie. No certainty that beyond your sense of self lives nothing but comparison. If you can not see others, your eyes remain fixated on yourself. You can’t see anyone else beyond your nose, yo.”
“There’s security in the group, yo.”
“That would make sense. There is also power in being in charge of yourself, your life and confident on your direction moving forward, yo. If you constantly need to ask others how to proceed, you will always be below them, yo.”
“Prefer that someone else lead the charge, yo.”
“As each goes, they go”, I continue speaking, “lead, follow or get out of the way. One does not desire a change in view without movement of his feet. The high ground is only taken through effort, yo.”
“The way that I see things here is fine, yo.”
“Ultimately”, I reply as I turn my head to look out the window at the surfers waiting for the set of waves to roll in, “your life will be the results of your action or inaction, yo.”