[It's hard to listen to maybe because he already knows this. Did know this. Once. Perhaps he let himself forget over time.
That's the problem with pushing your way to the top. He told himself he never let his guard down when, clearly, he had. He did.
It's a hard pill to swallow, such a comical failing in retrospect. He let himself lose track of one of his own first lessons he would stress to others as crucial: Never stop striving, never stop fighting, never stop. He frets and fusses about being made softer here when in his own way he had already gotten soft.]
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Date: 2014-09-02 12:40 am (UTC)That's the problem with pushing your way to the top. He told himself he never let his guard down when, clearly, he had. He did.
It's a hard pill to swallow, such a comical failing in retrospect. He let himself lose track of one of his own first lessons he would stress to others as crucial: Never stop striving, never stop fighting, never stop. He frets and fusses about being made softer here when in his own way he had already gotten soft.]
No. I believe you. I...understand. I know.