I’ve made a resolution to podcast once a month in 2018 and seeing as it’s very late on January 31, I’m really squeaking by. In fact, I’m cutting it so close that WordPress will probably date this post as February 1 but oh well. Like I can tame the WordPress gremlins who screw with my fine blog.
The text (and my notes.)
“Invictus”
By: William Ernest Henley
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.
BQB NOTE: Shit happens and while Henley isn’t sure exactly what god or gods may be out there, he thanks them for the fact that he can control his reactions to the shit coming his way.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
BQB NOTE: We are caught in “the clutch of circumstance.” Life throws shit our way and often we can’t control many things. All it takes is one major shit storm to ruin all the work we put in towards a goal and suffer a major setback. Henley feels like the constant stream of unexpected, unrequested shit is knocking him over the head and leaving his head bloody, but he’s not going to cave into the shit. He’s not going to bow down and be all like, “OK shit, you got me!”
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.
BQB NOTE: Life sucks and then you die. Don’t like life and all the unfair shit that happens. Sorry. Guess what happens next? You’re worm food, bitch, so start trying to find whatever little joy you can amidst the shit because soon you’ll be in the shit.
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.
BQB NOTE: I can’t control life but I can control myself. Am I going to fall apart when life doesn’t go my way? No, I’m going to be a straight up baller, son, and I’m gonna keep doing me and all the shit in life can go suck a D.
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