Mirror magic to conquer the office holiday gathering

I keep forgetting that mastery is a battle won
you actually do have to fight for it

to prove to anybody

anywhere

that you have beat this thing
that’s how you become a master

You can change it

Conquer it

Mold it into other things

These are masterful skills

so if I am healed, let’s say, from my natural tendencies having control over my behaviors around others, then that means I have done battle with those temptations

with those triggers

with those scenarios once again,
and this time came out the Victor
this time I did not lose myself and I did not lose the battle.

I actually won it, because I went through that fire again and came out unscathed

Then I have to keep doing it

I have to do it so much so well that mastery comes to mind.

You can’t do the training montage of yourself lifting the weights and running the miles and think that’s the end of the movie that’s not the end.

The montage takes effort in real time.

There’s sweat and scars at first- That’s not where the mastery comes in-the mastery comes in now that you’ve done all this training and all this hard work on yourself that you go right back out into the world ready to fight

Ready to prove to anybody

and anything

that this skill is your default now

that you are prepared

you were able to withstand

There’s proof.

You can’t dance around having to do the withstanding part
so the proof as they say is in the motherfucking pudding

it is pudding time bitch

all right

if you have mastered yourself

if you have the Self-awareness to know what to do regardless of how you feel the only way that that could be true is when they ring that bell they hold up your hand and say you’re the winner in that fight

are you Anakin or not you dig that
go out into the battle
let’s see who has the control everything outside of you

or you

its time to find out

Shut up and then show and prove

Over and over

No matter what

This alone is masterful.