Building Mental Strength, Setting your own Modern-day Wall of China, and the Game Detractors Play

I begin this epistle with a picture of me at the gym taken sometime in the latter part of 2019.

I do so with the gym because it represents for me an activity that is suggestive of strength and motivation.

Let these twin pillars guide this piece.

Strength of willpower and the motivation to act are necessary traits needed to succeed in today’s world and to overcome the hurts detractors try to bring our way.

Dear young man/ woman,

Let no man guilt-trip or emotionally blackmail you by projecting their expectations on you.

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