"The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend."
~Abraham Lincoln

was telling my mom about fencing.
then she suddenly said this quote to me.
rah! I never understood how the quote was true till recently.
I can't fence (now) because I can't overcome myself.
I say I try but then, I know I didn't try hard enough.
why is it every time I tell myself,
I'm gonna go up there, do my best and beat myself,
but then when I get up to the battlefield, all that motivation, drive, hunger suddenly vanishes?
and then I'll give myself a stupid excuse why I couldn't do it.

In this case, my enemy is my pathetic self.
ho shite. there I go again.
I could go to 9486593487 people, but they'd tell me the same thing-
"You can't, absolutely can't go in with that mindset of 'I can't do it', because then you really won't be able to."

thing is, I scare myself when I go up there.
it's not any better that some people are rubbing salt on the wound.


now it's all up to me.