There are moments that try the human soul so violently and so perplexing that if the truth were told all of us have had moments that we wanted to throw up our hands and walk away. Depression. Frustration. Anxiety. Pain. Disillusion. It's just a natural part of the process of becoming a stronger version of yourself. It happens to us spiritually and it happens in the world physically. You actually have a say-so in how your life goes. You have a determining voice into where your life can go. You have no say-so in what happens to you but you have a say-so in what you do about it. See, life is 10% what happens to you it's 90% what you do about it. Everything you see that's beautiful starts out as a seed but that seed got to get dirt on it. See, you get tripped out 'cause you got dirt on you but you need dirt on you to develop. Because dirt ain't just dirt. Dirt is fertilizer. Dirt is nutrients. Dirt gives you the strength for your seed to push through. See, you gotta have dirt on you to push through something. See, you get mad when haters come your way. You get mad because you get a setback. You get mad because you get thrown off course. You get mad because you get a detour. That's just dirt. You get mad because they talking about you. That's dirt. You get mad because you lost your mama. That's dirt. But show me something that has grown into something beautiful that didn't have no dirt on it. You got to have dirt on you to grow into what god got for you. I'm better. I'm better than it was when I went down. It was good for me that I've been afflicted. I'm better for it. I didn't like it, but I'm better for it. I couldn't see down there but I'm better for it. See, I was planted in a dark place but I'm better for it. Every time you go through something dark and you can't see your way out remember you've been planted not been buried. I'm not buried in this mess I'm planted in it. I'm planted in it and if I'm planning in it expect me to come back up again. And when I come back up you won't recognize me because I've got to be transformed by the experiences that I have endured. I ain't going nowhere. I will break you before you break me. You will not defeat me. You will not destroy me. I'm unbreakable now. You gotta take some L's to be a champion. You ain't gotta take no L's to be a winner but you got to take some L's to be a champion. And you tripping on your L's your L's about to prepare you. Everybody's got a f*cking plan until they get hit the f*cking mouth. So when your plan fails when you get knocked the f*ck down on the f*cking canvas when everything falls apart in your life and your plan is f*cked up what the f*ck are you gonna do? There's only one motherf*cking option stay f*cking hard. Put yourself in a position where you can't retreat. Where it's do or die sink or swim. Here's what you'll find out you'll develop incredible swimming skills. Through the inspiration of desperation you'll become more creative than ever before. When your mind knows it's not going to quit your body will adapt to whatever is in front of it. Learn to not let life hijack your brain. Don't allow all these things to make you a lesser person. You must own your mind don't let life own yours. As long as you've got breath in your nostrils don't you ever give up. Don't you ever give in because I never told you it would be easy. But with mental toughness, you could get it done. I don't care how hard you fall fall on your back. 'Cause if you can fall on your back you can look up and if you can look up you can get up. I'm not gonna let this get me down I'm not gonna let this destroy me. I'm coming back. And I'll be stronger and better because of it. I don't care where you come from I don't care where you were raised I don't care what colour you are I don't care what gender you are I don't care about any of that sh*t. If you do the work consistently if you invest in yourself consistently 1 plus 1 is always gonna equal 2 2 plus 2 is gonna equal 4 and 10 years of motherf*cking work is gonna pay off. You can do this. Don't stop when you're tired. Stop when you're done.