Wisdom

Accepting Defeat

We spend so much time trying to conquer life, avoiding the reality that death beckons.

Denying its place as that single inescapable truth.

We continue to pretend that we are somehow immortal,

Until one day – we realize that we’re not.

There is a great humility in death,

And it’s only your pride that convinces you that you’re bigger than it.

Deluding you into recreating the universe in your own image.

Making you believe that the very nature of things doesn’t apply to you,

That you are somehow above it all.

And it’s only death that reminds you that you’re not.

The way forward then, is to accept defeat

Accept the reality that you can’t win them all.

And that regardless of the heights you may reach in this life, 

you will face your moment just the same.

There is something very liberating in accepting that fact, 

in the letting go and realizing

That some things will always remain beyond your control

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Michael Dahdal

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