- Jim Rohn
I love the sass in this. He makes it sound so easy. Just get
up and move. This is like a right hand to my previous post about Ghandi's
quote, "Be the change you wish to see in the world." I say right hand
because it does have its differences. Unlike Ghandi, Rohn approaches this
scenario as unchangeable. I am a firm believer that sometimes it just comes to
removing yourself from a situation. When in doubt, walk out.
Why stay in a
situation that is only destructive for you physically or characteristically? Sometimes
the best, and in terrible cases, the only thing to is get yourself out!! Don't
stay in a harmful situation. Let me paint you this picture:
A gang member, let's call him Chris. He joined the gang as a
really young boy, around the age of 13. He is now 18, legal adult. He wants to
get his life together. Chris has a problem though. These guys are like his
family. Chris is a good soul, he wants to try and change all of their lives.
Every so often he'd suggest that they enroll into classes at the community
college or get a respectable job. But his family just wasn't feeling it. It got
to a point that they were so sick of Chris' positivity; they became very
violent towards Chris. Eventually every time he opened his mouth they'd hit
him, sometimes before he even said anything. One day, when Chris finally
surrendered to the fact that they weren't interested in changing for the
better, he decided he wasn't going to stand by and let his own life fall apart.
He got help getting out o the gang, moving cities, and starting a new, better
life.
Now, I may have just
made that up, but it's that simple. In the story Chris was not happy with the
lifestyles of the people around him. He tried to change it. When that was no
longer an option, he took off. It comes down to this: when you've done all you
can with no results, it’s time to MOVE on. You're not a tree.
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