Against All Odds

Against All Odds

A wise man, aka Albert Einstein once said "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." Sounds so easy and simple right? Yet anyone who has experienced life in any a manner can unanimously agree that it isn't so easy after all, simple maybe but easy hardly. See, the simplicity of a thing doesn't guarantee ease and although it is as simple as to "keep moving" the fact is there are many odds that may incline one to desire to stop or to even become unconsciously stuck from fear. Fear of the unknown, fear that they're not good enough or has what it takes to beat the odds or even recover from the temporary defeat that the odds have handed them. In this sense life is like riding a bicycle and oftentimes while riding a bicycle we fall off, the chain pops, catch a flat tire/low air pressure, go up steep hills or lose control going down one or sometimes even hit by a vehicle and knocked flying off and oftentimes in those moments we feel like "now what?' "should I even get back on?" "was it my fault?" "can I trust myself or others/my surroundings?" And that's what makes the concept of to simply "keep moving" in order to maintain balance  so difficult. Because we tend to overlook that falling off of balance is in fact an essential part of the balancing act, sometimes we're on and sometimes we're off balance because the term "balance" itself is simply an even distribution of different elements and it wouldn't be an act of "balance" at all if there were only one element of the act. Once I've learned this lesson, I began to become much more confident and consequently better at the act of balancing of life. I now know that to "keep moving" doesn't mean I don't fall down but rather I continue in spite of the fall. The fact of the matter is the odds are against us just as equally as they are for us, in fact the odds of even being conceived were greatly against us, billions to be specific. But the odds are no match for the resilience of the great human spirit and to realize that one can and is a winner against any and all odds is how you win. See, winning a mentality not a destination. You become a winner on the journey in the process of realizing you were not born but created and conceived a winner and from that discovery you then maneuver as a winner even when you're not "winning" because "winning" is simply not giving up/in against all and any odds that you may encounter.

"Always do your best don't let the pressure make you panic and when you get stranded and things don't go the way you planned it."

-Tupac Shakur