Confront Your Demons

Confront your demons. Yes, your demons. Especially now, while you are young. You must create a mind and body capable of withstanding the hardships of life. What you are facing now is nothing compared to what lies ahead. Greater challenges will come in the future. If you let your demons accumulate, they will crush you—and worse, you might become a monster yourself. It is the nature of men who fail to confront themselves to become perpetrators when the chance and opportunity arise. Never, my friend, should you give a man the opportunity to be a scoundrel—and you are the first man to whom this applies.

Your demons are at your bedside. They stare at you. Can you look them in the eye? Can you face them? Or are you constantly justifying their presence? Oh dear!

The slightest compromises will bring them back. Oh, my dear, do not underestimate your deepest demons. Do not. It takes only a single day of inattention, a single moment of weakness, for them to slip in completely and shatter you into pieces.

What might open the door for them? What allows them to return?

As long as you play by others’ rules, you must endure their judgment. If their words cut you deeply, it’s because you’ve been playing their game. And when you lose in that game, it hurts.

“Don’t judge me, don’t judge me,” I hear it all the time. But I am not judging you, my friend. You are your own judge. You suffer my words because you know their truth. You knew it before I said it. My words only echoed what you have always known.

There they come. There they are. They have not left you alone yet. Rest assured, my friend, they never left. They will drag you down—lust, pornography, envy, resentment, jealousy, daydreaming, overeating, arrogance, overspending, weakness, blindly following the crowd.

The first act of courage I want from you is this: face your demons.