Unstoppable Men
Every so often I meet somebody who is so set in their ways that they are inflexible.
When this person is on a crusade, and he usually is, he is unshakeable.
Single-minded, unwavering.
This is the kind of man who from sheer determination, creates great charitable foundations.
It's this kind of dogged relentlessness that builds the pyramids and the Taj Mahal.
These are the men that built nations.
While I marvel at how wonderful it must be to have such firm convictions and a clear view of the world, what must it be like to be, that person and to live with that person?
I have somebody in mind while I write this, but I am sure that everyone who reads this will be able to substitute that person with someone whom you know and love.
Let us first try to imagine what it would be like to "be" that person.
You are sure of all the things, that you are sure about.
Things you don't understand, you leave to those that are better qualified.
When your mind is made up, it's made up.
To the death.
You are so disappointed in everyone who can't see things as clearly as you do.
You are so disappointed in everyone who can't see things as clearly as you do.
You realise that you can't do it on your own but you need everything to be just so and it frustrates you that things don't always according to the plan.
Your plan.
Your immediate family respect you and what you are capable of building.
You are amazing in that way.
You are a shop builder, a shipbuilder and a nation builder.
But you are a pain in the neck for those who love you.
They realise how essential you are and how unstoppable too, and have come to regard you much as they would the weather.
They simply accept that if you live in the desert there will be dust storms and on the ocean, there will be waves.
You don't cry or argue.
You get on with it.
You are the mighty storm that rages through the forest but you need to be married to the bamboo tree who will bend while you rage and stand proudly when the storm passes.
Bend with the wind and not break.
If you have this, you are well matched.
So long as you remember that bamboos too, can break when they are bent too far.
If you have a spouse who is another mutant.
A rock perhaps.
Then your raging storm will fling waves and ships onto the unyielding rocks.
What happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
So be grateful for the bamboo tree.
Don't criticize her flexibility and wish for the sturdy oak, as the oak would surely have broken by now.
The aim of this is to try and understand how your mind latches onto a path.
If you can never change your mind, perhaps it's better to manipulate how you are exposed to a new idea in the first place. The trick is not how to change your mind but to set you on a new path, and influence how it is presented to you.
I suspect that somebody who understood this could shape the narrative in such a way that it resonated with your existing architecture. And once you had processed, it and categorised the "new thing" and given it a slot in your mental filing system, it would forever be that way.
It wouldn't matter what anybody else subsequently said or what your eyes showed you.
Your mind was made up and you were after all the unstoppable force.
The unshakable builder of nations, protector of the innocent and destroyer of evil empires.
Your strength and resoluteness are your greatest weaknesses.
To a true "Jedi master" you are easier to manipulate than the muggles.
He just needs to get to you early enough to control the narrative.
I imagine it must be lovely to always be a knight charging into battle.
So sure that you are fighting the good fight defending the only, just cause.
This part I truly envy.
It must also be frustrating to have to depend on the many useless incompetent people that make up humanity.
𝓜 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓴
Sep 2021
Your plan.
Your immediate family respect you and what you are capable of building.
You are amazing in that way.
You are a shop builder, a shipbuilder and a nation builder.
But you are a pain in the neck for those who love you.
They realise how essential you are and how unstoppable too, and have come to regard you much as they would the weather.
They simply accept that if you live in the desert there will be dust storms and on the ocean, there will be waves.
You don't cry or argue.
You get on with it.
You are the mighty storm that rages through the forest but you need to be married to the bamboo tree who will bend while you rage and stand proudly when the storm passes.
Bend with the wind and not break.
If you have this, you are well matched.
So long as you remember that bamboos too, can break when they are bent too far.
If you have a spouse who is another mutant.
A rock perhaps.
Then your raging storm will fling waves and ships onto the unyielding rocks.
What happens when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
So be grateful for the bamboo tree.
Don't criticize her flexibility and wish for the sturdy oak, as the oak would surely have broken by now.
The aim of this is to try and understand how your mind latches onto a path.
If you can never change your mind, perhaps it's better to manipulate how you are exposed to a new idea in the first place. The trick is not how to change your mind but to set you on a new path, and influence how it is presented to you.
I suspect that somebody who understood this could shape the narrative in such a way that it resonated with your existing architecture. And once you had processed, it and categorised the "new thing" and given it a slot in your mental filing system, it would forever be that way.
It wouldn't matter what anybody else subsequently said or what your eyes showed you.
Your mind was made up and you were after all the unstoppable force.
The unshakable builder of nations, protector of the innocent and destroyer of evil empires.
Your strength and resoluteness are your greatest weaknesses.
To a true "Jedi master" you are easier to manipulate than the muggles.
He just needs to get to you early enough to control the narrative.
I imagine it must be lovely to always be a knight charging into battle.
So sure that you are fighting the good fight defending the only, just cause.
This part I truly envy.
It must also be frustrating to have to depend on the many useless incompetent people that make up humanity.
𝓜 𝓟𝓪𝓻𝓪𝓴
Sep 2021
Ps
It's so strange..
It's so strange..
I posted this a few weeks, and everyone who read it assumed I was talking to them, about them.
Perhaps I was wrong all along.
Maybe this is not black and white.
Not the way I made it seem.
Perhaps all see some of this in themselves.
Maybe there is a spectrum, and we all sit on it.
Somewhere.
Pps
(last one I promise)
Somebody approached me and asked if I had her husband in mind, when I wrote this and as it was, I had to say yes. So I did. It felt like an enforcement so at least I didn't get it entirely wrong.
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