"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self." - Ernest Hemingway
He said it right, no one could've explained it better. The best way to live life is to keep trying to be better than your former self. But this is not as easy as it sounds, you can always become better than everybody else in almost anything you set your mind to, but beating your own self in something is a summit only few can reach. When you go up against your own mind, you really test yourself and if you can go through it, great things are bound to happen. The difficulty in fighting yourself and getting better than your own mind lies in the fact that this battle is fought in the mind, and that is exactly what you have to beat. Every Time you decide to do something, something as simple as waking up early in the morning and going for a walk, your brain always gives you reasons not to. These reasons are always logical to some extent but logic comes from mind, and so to beat your own mind you have to be illogical. Think of your mind as another guy, now tell me how do you feel if some guy says you cannot do a certain thing because of a logical reason? How do you feel when your teacher or your coach or parent or "the love of your life" tells you that you cannot do a certain thing? Hurts doesn't it? And what is your response to that? You get up and give your 200% just to rub it in their faces. But what do you do when your own brain, the part which literally controls you tells you that you cannot do it, that you cannot go for a morning walk because it's too cold outside and how good it feels to just stay in your warm soft blanket? You think of your brain as just another guy who does not believe in you and wants you to stay where you are in life and never get better. This is when you put in all your energy and get up from that bed to do what you want to do, achieve what you want to achieve and then rub it in your own face. Believe me, when you surpass your own expectations, you become something else, there is no stopping. Only then do you get better than your own former self and only then do you achieve true happiness.
We all talk about this big trap of a world that we are inside and how everything sucks, but the reality is that this trap is only in your head, constantly pulling you down and keeping you from achieving what you have always desired, happiness. Don't let the "logical reasons" to get in your way, don't let anything come in your way. Remember,
" To achieve something that no one could, you gotta do what no one could."
Happy New Year.
Keep Fighting.
Keep Getting Better.
