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Restrain To Submit Or Resist To Fulfill A Purpose

Balance is so essential in this life that many meet trouble when trying to achieve it. Wherever the going leads to, lessons are destined to take place silently.

On the way to that road, to restrain from a depriving environment only make sense when it´s intended to protect something valuable in the journey to make a living. When resistance becomes the choice, only the dauntless can make a point and stand on its ground to serve the purpose that mostly cannot be delivered. People are born coupled with a social responsibility and a role to play. Some of them neglect to fulfill that purpose – the reason and cause why many others don´t realize to stay under the perimeters of proper demeanor because seldom has the courage to slap people´s misdeeds and mistakes especially to the men of authority. It sometimes become a dilemma-like situation when confronted whether to restrain and swallow your purpose or resist then suffer a piece of repercussion. That´s how nature works… It has a powerful way of imposing ITS own balance.

Not today, maybe not even tomorrow…But I know – good or bad – karma will soften and smoothen its way into us someday. Even Hitler who thought of being invincible fades away in time. Many of his descendants are still having the same thought and ways in dealing with situations with unbendable authority. When the dragon on the Aries´ heart start to spit some fire up, they´ll all melt down.

I was in the middle of a long traffic jam today for nearly an hour being on the same spot. I tried to hang on patiently. Other vehicles keep on passing over from my left then take my lane up. I simply take a deep breath – trying to understand the uneducated-arrogant-selfish fellows that seize my lane…But the same thing goes on and on, over and over again. "If this people try to catch up with schedules, what about me?" I thought. I felt I have to be drastic to send my message. I feel compelled that I have a role to play right there and then. I stick my head out from the driver seat and scream on top of my lung:


“HEY! WE´RE PATIENTLY CUING HERE, GO BACK TO YOUR LANE!”

Being drastic is not always the correct way of dealing with situations. But it worked today – that driver ends up at the tail of the line because everybody hates what he does so they didn´t give him a chance to take back into the lane…But! Nobody has ever tried to call his attention as well until I decided to do so. At least for a day that driver learned that he´s not tough as he thought – that others can go down to his level and beat him up on his own game.

Being restraint does not solve certain problems. It´s maybe one way to keep away from trouble, but I would rather take the risk to rectify how things should go in the right manner and die young rather than die in the old age unfulfilled. As my favorite quotation says:

“Not doing the bad thing ain´t enough to make things right”

We got a job to do.

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