THE LIONESS BENEATH

 

BUILDING BETTER HABITS

A strategic powerful leader building from beneath / Photo Courtesy / Vlada Karpovich

The Author Speaks

This author really wants to say something. “Nobody truly plays with this author or anything associated with her.” So someone must surely be bold. To bring games in the author’s residence. Because you certainly don’t know what you are coming against. This author is an enigma. A hard nut to crack. Don’t go after her. You will lose classically, enthusiastically, and terribly magnificently on a sunny bright day. Don’t dare attack this author using any means. Physically, psychologically or spiritually. There is a lioness beneath the author.

One that fights fiercely. Like a lioness protecting its territory. You don’t steal or infiltrate her compound. The lioness is always on guard. And she never tires. With sharp eyes every day. The lioness watches. The lioness hears. And the lioness pursues. So don’t bring foolish games at the court of this essayist. The author is equipped, positioned, and empowered.

Don’t bring verbal threats. Don’t bring spiritual threats too. The author has a protective dome around her. So be warned. A lioness protects its own. Don’t be cheated by the demeanor. This author is as strong as she is athletic. She is the kind of person who learns. One that proceeds with caution. There is no ignorance in her habitation.

You Don’t Know People

Who are you? / Photo / RDNE Stock project

So don’t allow your arrogance and ignorance to lead you. Whatever emboldened you to strike. Advise it to calm down. Because you don’t pick a battle with someone you don’t know. You see people. You have general knowledge about them. But you don’t know people. You especially, don’t know this author. So pause. You have no intelligence. Fake news won’t work here. And even if you manage to collect the right data about this individual. Think again. What is motivating your intentions to fight someone who has no business with you? Someone who does not have any interest in you. Someone who is highly committed to his or her practice. Why are you forming weapons upon someone who genuinely does not know you? Think twice here. And once you have thought. Ask yourself. What is wrong with me?

If a person can be over there. Minding his or her life. Why are you bothered? Why is your heart infuriated? Why is your mind toxic? Because practically speaking. This person has done nothing to you. Perhaps, the only mistake this person made. Is sharing the same environment with you. that is why you are bothered by his or her presence. However, your actual problem is idleness. You make other people your business.

You have made the environment your business. So you know who comes in. And who goes out. And in the process of counting who is going. And who is coming. You have picked battles. Battles with people who have nothing to do with you. Yet, you have concluded that they will learn the hard way. So you consult widely. And choose a style of unleashing your battle. It will be silent. As if nothing is happening. Yet deep down.

You are brewing a cold war. A hostile war meant to punish your imaginary enemies. The ones that you see every day. Yet, you don’t know them. The ones that you have issues with. But you don’t muster courage to verbalize your concerns. So you are a coward. And on top being a coward. You are also a fool with petty ego. Because you make enemies in your heart. And demand a pound of flesh from them. Just what kind of games are these? Who are you playing against? You and your own shadow? Be serious. At least you should have said something. Something that could have provoked your supposed enemy. And picked up a fight from there. But waging a war against someone you don’t know. What a terrible? The move not only demonstrate ignorance but also poor decision-making. And poor choice of strategy.

Understand the Environment

Who are playing against? / photo / Julia Larson

You don’t approach an enigma like that. The lioness beneath will catch up with you. It will devour you before you figure out where to hide. Don’t underestimate an average person. An average person can be two things or even more. An average person can be a fool. That is one version. An average person can also be a highly sophisticated person trying to fit in a specific setting. That is the second version. An average person can also be an expert understanding an environment. Yet, your petty ego convinced you that the fight will be a walk over. You are too advanced for these average people. But that is where your downfall begins. Using assumption instead of facts. You underestimate without facts. You choose a strategy without the right intelligence. And you execute without understanding the battlefield.

So what if the person you are targeting saw you a long time ago. That even before you thought you could be a weapon. Your target already knew you will become one with time. And true to their prediction. You become the exact weapon. At this point. Who is fooling who? Life is not your average Johnstone. You might know Johnstone inside out. But you don’t know life. You also don’t know the types of foundations some people stand on.

Don’t pretend to be smart around people who are several steps ahead of you. Don’t court trouble. Anyone who took a history class in high school. Understands how a cold war forms. So you are not smart by launching a silent war. You are also not smart. By declaring war without words. A fool always leaves footprints. And you were no exception. Leave other people alone. There mere fact that you have registered few successes in the past. Does not mean people are the same. This environment is different. Your target does not need to do much. And soon or later. You will fall to your own destructive devices.

What Lemonade?

Your target does not need to do much /Photo Courtesy / Ahmed Galal

A toxic heart was your problem from the beginning. You never guarded your heart. You never examined your own heart. Instead, you fed it poison. And expected it to serve you lemonade. You were wrong. A toxic heart is dangerous. A contaminated heart is capable of infections. Your decision to mind other people’s business was wrong.

Ignorance suggested that it was just a mere looking. But look at what that mere look bore. A dirty heart full of envy and rancid. You actually invested time to grow a toxic heart. Every minute you made yourself idle. You contributed one ounce of toxicity. And a toxic heart was not your only problem. You also thought bad intentions. You want to see other people suffering. Because they cannot have what they have. And you have nothing. So you want to level the ground. By taking away what they have. Who are you? Who emboldened you to fight other people?            

I would like to remind you again. The greatest war is in your heart. Don’t look at what is going on in the world. Look at your own heart. What is going on inside your heart? Focus on the battle inside your own heart. That is where your attention should have been from the beginning.  Not on this author. This author is a worthy opponent. Attack her. And you will see the lioness beneath.

 

 

Disclaimer

The word ‘You, or you’ does not refer to you the reader. The author only used the word to make a point. So don’t get emotionally involved. The author truly knows you are not a violent person. Just catch a lesson. And enjoy life.

Cheers:-)