How To Deal With C.R.A.P. (Firestarter Edition)

▼Transcending Criticism, Rejection, Assholes & Pressure▼

NB: A Blog is Not a Waitress. Be Inspired. Or Take Your Tastes Elsewhere.

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Exactly a year ago, I shared rejection experiences and insights 
on a website. But in life and


online as you wrestle with life's challenges, dear son, daughter, brother, friend and family,


you can expect hypersensitive earthlings reacting (not
 originating anything 
themselves)


to engage wildly in much chattering, flopping, hissing, rolling & snarling. But, butterfly,


I just want to share a life-defining crucible as I continue to archive unfolding accounts


of the saga for as always, my content's for a much more diverse audience. We were


in Africa then. My big brother had just returned from America and my mother was

having dinner on one of two balconies overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, requested


some table salt. I volunteered; if you can picture this: with childlike energy and



Usain Boltlike speed, to fetch the salt downstairs. One millisecond later (that


is, assuming your mind is still wandering), I was back with salt in my palm &


not only that, I was wearing a proud grin on my face. My mom slapped me



so hard I swear I heard the full force, weight of the timpani,
crescendo


and intensity of 
Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (Scherzo) inside my ears


and throughout my entire being. And the rest of the silence I felt, in



the meanwhile, as in the silence of an audience, it turned out, was



only that of the 
schadenfreude of my two brothers who up until


that moment believed I, as the last born, was the favored son.


As they (now the audience) erupted into applause, or more


appropriately, laughter, and I recovered from the shock, I


realized my mistake. Just as 
people who have class don't


embark on a hate, 
backstabbing, slander, defamation,


sabotage or subversion excursion against those who



"reject" them on principle, in the same way, some



-where in my upbringing I was taught, or should



have known to present food (much like Thai


food comes with artistic style), with 
class.


A 
saucer would have sufficed you see but

that prepared me for bigger challenges

& rejections due to my skin tone. Elite


circles in a world where talent is as

universal as opportunity isn't. And


where 
White privilege is a fact



just like racism is a cancer you



can have, 
without knowing.


You wanna know a person's


true character? Reject him


a number of times, if that


so-called "rejection" 
can



be
 justified on ethical


grounds. Then watch


him go off and about


ripping your repu-


tation or recalcu-



late and mature


thanks to your


tough love.


C.R.A.P.


defined

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The 'Modus Vivendi' Series (Crucible Chronicles)

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