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  • Nowadays, is very easy to be a coward.

  • Why we get Instagramish.

  • The problem our young people are having is that they live on social media, and social media only shows you success.

  • So I get an email the other day.

  • This young man wants to be a ranger.

  • He's afraid to go to Ranger school not because how hard the training it is, but because he is afraid if he fails, what people gonna say by judge them.

  • One thing in life is applies everything in life.

  • Any time you move from being a normal, to try to be exceptional, people are gonna like that normal people.

  • It makes them feel like this... (to make themselves feel better)

  • Through to your judging.

  • Most folks don't tell it to your face that go online.

  • They post about like cowards.

  • Don't that cowards get in your... head?

  • One of the things that we know about life is that it is always changing.

  • Sometimes you're up sometimes you're down.

  • Sometimes things go real well and sometimes they don't.

  • Sometimes you're happy and sometimes you're sad.

  • Now that's that thing called life.

  • People who live on social media live on the mountains of your life.

  • But then when they cut all social media and they find the dip, then they get depressed because my life doesn't look like your picture.

  • And when we begin to understand and know that accepting that reality that we will never, ever have things just on and even kill all the time.

  • But you're gonna have some ups and you're gonna have some downs.

  • But during those down moments, that's where the growth takes place.

  • So my reality doesn't look like your image, and now I'm depressed.

  • Cause I can't get out of this, when your real power is in the dips.

  • That's where the work is.

  • Anybody can feel good when they have their health, their bills are paid, they have happy relationships, the children are acting normal.

  • See, you think you saw the most powerful parts of 2016, but the peaks are not the most powerful parts, is how do you survive the violence.

  • Anybody could be positive being.

  • Anybody can have a larger vision being.

  • Anybody can have faith under those kinds of circumstances.

  • Am I correct? See about the real challenge, the real challenge of growth mentally, emotionally and spiritually comes when you get knocked down.

  • It's the hell we went through in between the pictures that would make you respect the position.

  • The reason you think you can handle stuff you're not ready for is that we only show you the good stuff.

Nowadays, is very easy to be a coward.

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