First of all, I want to apologise to anyone that cares about my lack of activity on my blog. The truth is I needed to get a lot of other things in order before I started writing again. For the 22 year old tortured, male, Indian creator, the struggle is real. Having said that, my passion for writing and dishing out somewhat relevant advice to anyone that would listen never went away, so I’m glad to say that I’m ready to go.

 

With winter just passing and the warm weather that most of us so desperately were yearning for slowly starting to creep in, you can’t help but feel like we’re starting to shed our old skins, especially because of the massive events that have affected the world in the last couple of months. With Hurricane Harvey and Irma wreaking havoc in Texas and Florida, the whirlwind of heartbreak and concern rumbled through out lives in a 12 round slug fest that ended with nothing more than a keen sigh of relief when it was over, and a now realistic understanding of how quickly the world can change for better or for worse. The real epiphany, however, that we somehow learn and re learn time and time again is one simple idea.

That the odds are stacked against us.

 

You can’t always fully understand mother nature, let alone stop whatever it is that she may throw at you, but what we can understand is the reality of how tough the weather can get…literally and metaphorically.

 

A classic example of this was the Mayweather, McGregor fight last month.

A lot of people hit me up asking for my opinion.

And after so heavily endorsing Conor, and then having to watch him get TKO’d in the 10^th round was, nevertheless, devastating.

 

But in all fairness and respect to his ability as a Boxer and a Fighter, Conor weathered a very big storm. He did a lot better than what a lot of people thought and he proved what many other people seemed to doubt from the beginning. His mindset.

 

Now I’m not saying that a boxing match that was dubbed the biggest event in sporting history is anything like the ferocity and terror that the people of Texas and Florida faced, but what I can say is that if we can learn anything from the last two months, its that human beings are tough, strong and persistent. We show true grit and are capable of getting through things through what can only be described as rock solid resiliency. The odds may never be in our favour but when we think about the necessity to step up and then keep on moving forward, something lights a fire in us that can never be extinguished. We may get blown away and gassed out, but we do not quit and we do not lose. We either win or we learn… and more importantly, we survive.

 

My faith in Conor is much like my faith in humanity, at times tested and at times disappointed. But after it’s all said and done, its still there…all the way through to the 12^th round.