Having two teenage children, defiance is a frequent visitor in our home. My teeth are a dentist's nightmare as they have lost their enamel with the amount of grinding I have been doing.
Not that defiance was invented by my brats, I've been there done that and with great relish I must say.
It's all a matter of perspective, while I was doing it, I thought meself uber cool and smart and felt so powerful.
While I'm a recipient I feel like a victim and marginalised.
Defiance though like everything else, is a weapon you should use for the right causes.
Defy failure, sickness and weakness. You must.
Posting below a mantra I chant...
INVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the Pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll.
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
- William Ernest Henley
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