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The laurels of a life warrior

Failure to conform to a dead world is the bravest, most stupid and yet courageous thing to do The entire world will resist a single person's attempt to try and walk against the stream in originality, angry that the person dares to call out the tribe, or walk away from it towards a new unsure path forged only by inner conviction. In every home, community, country. The ones who dare, punished and shamed for leaving or trying to leave, forced to conform. Daring to question. Daring to find the tribe wanting. For when a person says the tribe is not enough or it's rules are not truths, it challenges the value within of the clan. Creates doubt. Weakens the collective. Undermines the identity. So, the rebel needs to be disowned. Shamed. Ridiculed. The path made so difficult that the rebel will get tired fighting. Will conform. Or, give up the struggle. And, succeed only by its rules.

If you have merely followed or blazed your own path, harmed no one except be unconventionally different from others in your choices, tried to take others along while taking yourself to new ways of being, your path needs no defending. You need no defending. Neither your failures need sympathy for you would have had plenty of successes too. You would have dared where others would never have even dreamnt of trying.

It is up to others to comprehend their part in your story or their own paths and stories and your role in theirs if any. They will never admit the critical role you would have played in pushing them of their comfort zone for tribes that resist change will stick together as long as it takes. Fooling themselves.

The tribe that you left is not your tribe otherwise you would have never left it seeking for a place that felt more like home. For people and experiences that may resonate with your core.

There will be others who are seeking. Who have been stupid to risk dreaming of a new world too. Brave to try. Stubborn to keep trying. The focus is to not worry beyond a point for the tribe one chose to leave or expect it's understanding for your compulsions.

The critical important thing is to embrace the truth that one walked away from the tribe because one did not fit in. Was never a part of it fully. Did not feel one belonged. Instead of fighting for understanding and acceptance from a tribe that one left, it is more important to accept that one left the safety of the tribe because it was stifling. That the failures of what lay outside seemed less riskier than success of compliance or acceptance of a dead tribe of continued tradition or slow to change. One has to fully embrace the truth that one left simply because the tribe was not enough. One was at the core different from the tribe for simply daring. Leaving. Trying. Failing. Trying. Daring. Trying. Daring. Trying.

For the longest of time, a warrior will guilt within because the dream within will refuse to die, and you are unable to make others see, or take as many along as possible. There comes a point where the warrior should embrace the truth within. While there are seeds of similarity with the tribe, it is exactly what was dissimilar that caused the need to leave the tribe. The warrior is from the tribe, but not the tribe. The warrior is the one who dared to rebel and leave the tribe. That the rebel is one who should never apologise for having the inner fire that dared to question and leave the tribe finding it wanting.

Either the warrior should create a solo tribe and expect other warriors to join at some point or go about creating a new tribe of all those who never fitted in and dared to leave their tribes. The warrior who leaves the tribe has to learn to be brave enough to accept that he or she is not like the tribe. That the rules of the tribe will not work, never did and most importantly, it is stupid to leave a tribe finding it wanting and expect to be understood, liked and supported for it from the same tribe.

It takes a lifetime of walking to realise that the failures what the warrior thought was a lifelong baggage are a failure only by the dead rules of convention. The failures are a roaring success testimony to the fact that it proves why the person walked away leaving the tribe in the first place. It is a failure of trying to create a new world with the rules of the old tribe. Of being or trying to be a compromised bridge. It will fail. It is bound to fail. It is the hypocrisy of the warrior to want the crown of the bravery or applause from the same tribe that it chose to walk away from, daring to be different.

This last link of stupidity and hypocrisy that binds to the old needs to be broken. The hypocrisy and veil of thinking one has walked away from the tribe has to be lifted as all along what the warrior was mourning was as a failed journey was actually the true success of a walk towards a new world. To have failed to win by the rules of the old tribes is to have won the possibility of a new tribe.

When that veil lifts, the warrior has truly left the tribe in all forms. Finally, after a lifetime of struggle to leave and still deal with a link to the old, the person is fully free to celebrate all the failures of the old dead world as the stepping stone to success in a brave new world. As the rite of passage.

In a flip of a second, the understanding changes of what true success or failure is. For to have failed in the eyes of a dead world is to have succeeded in failing its rules after trying to fit in. It is a marking of success. To being alive. For only the alive would struggle. Walk away. Fight within. And, finally with one sweep cut the cord that binds to breathe free. Only those who could not follow the rules of the dead tribes can fail to succeed in it.

The failures shine like precious gems lighting the way finally out of the tribe. The failures are the truths that kept the truth within of the warrior alive. It is now the job of the warrior to blaze a trail of success in a new world in the making.

- SS

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