Your Enemies Keep You Young: Embracing Your Competitors and Challenges

I get told often that I look young for someone my age. My response is that it’s my intense rage that keeps me young. It’s actually not that far from the truth. 

I’m a very black and white guy. You are either on my side or you are the enemy. There is no neutrality in my world view. If you are neutral then you will also be considered the enemy. I admit the last half decade of my life has definitely hardened me in many ways. 

It’s not the healthiest attitude to live by but it is what it is. And I’ve been able to harness this to improve and drive myself forward to great personal benefit. 

Your enemies, or in the more civilized world, competitors, are the whetstone to sharpen your blade on. So you should welcome this, despite the pain & challenges you face when you are battling against them. Pray for enemies, as that shows you might actually be fighting for something of worth. Having no enemies literally means you are fighting for nothing. 

As the plains Native Americans saying goes:

“Make my enemy brave and strong, so that if defeated I will not be ashamed.”

Maybe even more importantly as this very excellent TheManMaker tweeted here https://twitter.com/TheManMakerx/status/1592196701120794624:

“Show me a man with no enemies,

And I'll show you a man who is not growing in his life.”