Steadfast Spirits The Unwritten Saga of Life's Quiet Champions
Mar 20, 2024
Michael
Have you ever been underestimated, told that you wouldn't amount to much, only to find yourself standing strong against the odds? This episode is an anthem for the underdog, a celebration of the resilience that shapes us through adversity. From the heart of Dayton, I bring you a conversation that transforms the phrase "just look at you" from an insult into a mantra of strength. We draw inspiration from stories of everyday heroes—the parents shouldering the silent burdens—and find solace in the wisdom of the Velveteen Rabbit, recognizing our tears, sweat, and blood as nourishing our dreams.
Join us as we honor the fighters who redefine victory, not just those in the boxing ring, but the stoic 'silverbacks' whose tenderness emerges in the presence of their children and the matriarchs who hold fast to their resolve. There are no guests this time—just raw, heartfelt stories and messages that resonate with anyone who's faced a challenge. It's a reminder that growth isn't just about pushing through; it's about growing through, and no calculator, ancient or modern, can count out the spirit of a true champion.
Have you ever been underestimated, told that you wouldn't amount to much, only to find yourself standing strong against the odds? This episode is an anthem for the underdog, a celebration of the resilience that shapes us through adversity. From the heart of Dayton, I bring you a conversation that transforms the phrase "just look at you" from an insult into a mantra of strength. We draw inspiration from stories of everyday heroes—the parents shouldering the silent burdens—and find solace in the wisdom of the Velveteen Rabbit, recognizing our tears, sweat, and blood as nourishing our dreams.
Join us as we honor the fighters who redefine victory, not just those in the boxing ring, but the stoic 'silverbacks' whose tenderness emerges in the presence of their children and the matriarchs who hold fast to their resolve. There are no guests this time—just raw, heartfelt stories and messages that resonate with anyone who's faced a challenge. It's a reminder that growth isn't just about pushing through; it's about growing through, and no calculator, ancient or modern, can count out the spirit of a true champion.
Speaker 1:
Hello, it's me, the MNI, the K to the E, hailing from the D to the Y to the T that's the abbreviation for the city called Dayton and I'm sending you good sensations and vibrations. And remember, I'm just saying I want to talk to you from the subject. Just look at you again as the subject, just look at you. Usually when people are saying just look at you, they are going to give you a myriad, a barrage, a plethora, a large amount of insults of what they're saying about you. Usually, when somebody says, just look at you, that's what they're going to do. But I'm coming to you from the perspective of just look at you, look at how you were going through, what you were going through, or, as they say, getting through your get through, going through your ups downs, your turn arounds, your roundabouts and everything in between, and look what happened. You are still standing. You had went through many things, various things, and you were crying. And the funny thing about it is that that, even crying, you looked your best.
Speaker 1:
I remember I read the story and watched the movie of the Velveteen Rabbit. Really, I should say just watched the movie. I don't remember reading the book itself, but the Velveteen Rabbit was a rabbit. That was a toy rabbit and the little boy loved it, took it everywhere he went. Then he got sick and the doctor recommend that the rabbit had gotten rid of. The boy got other toys and was playing with them and left the rabbit behind. But the doctor, once the boy got sick, recommended that it gets thrown away. And once it gets thrown away, the toy rabbit went into the woods, was getting ready to get disposed of and then it cried a real tear. Out of the ground grew a fairy once the tear hit the ground and then after that the rabbit became real. Sometimes the blood and the sweat and the tears are the fluids that cause the seeds of our dreams and aspirations to grow into plants and forests and foliage. So you're sitting there crying. You may be crying, but you're doing this thing. You're a modern-day Rocky Balboa. You're still fighting.
Speaker 1:
The opposition's knuckles is hurting from hitting you and all of those who are rooting for the opposition is saying you should just stay down. I don't see why he just keeps taking this. They're not saying it because they feel sorry for you. They just want you to hurry up and stop so that their person can go ahead and win. They don't want to see a new winner. They don't want the challenger to become champion. But I'm afraid or I should I say I regret to inform them and and you that you are getting ready to take this, this opposition, out. Take that opposition right out of there, because you're going to become the champion. They can do and say whatever they want. The reason that they're saying it again is just because they don't want to see their person lose. And I don't know who I'm talking to.
Speaker 1:
But, father, mother, you are being a matriarchal and patriarchal chiropractor, having everyone else's back, holding up things on your back so that Other people can win. You're sacrificing. Yeah, I'm talking to you, big, rugged dad, the one that's wearing the flannels, the camo we're in the snow camo, we're in the Desert camo, wearing the sand camo outfit. The manly man, the silverback. But it's funny because when that silverback sees that daughter, he changes. He says no woman's gonna tell me what to do. And then here's his little daughter, that mother oh, I ain't no man gonna run me. Then that little boy looks up and the little boy, all he has to do is ask mommy, and he's gonna get what he wants.
Speaker 1:
But you're continuing, you're going, you're going through it and growing through it. You're resilient and, as it was said in that song, even when you're crying, you're beautiful too. You were Told and we're counted out. And the funny thing about it is that even with the collegiate calculator, a TI, whatever you remember those calculators TI 90, ti 82's, all of those calculators they still can't count you out. I don't care if they have an abacus, that's going way back, they cannot count you out. Just look at you, look at all you've been through, all you've gone through, and you're still resilient. And At your worst form was when somebody was looking at you.
Speaker 1:
Some of the longest conversations you've ever had Did not even include words. That person just stared at you, you stared at them and that was the longest Conversation ever. That silence, that telepathy, if you want to call it that was working. And I'm like the old wise man talking to that person who's saying Be careful. You think, because they are crying, that they're weak, but they're actually powering up, power up. They are becoming an altered beast, male or female, altered beast. So think about that. That's what's happening.
Speaker 1:
You're becoming that beast and even at your worst, you're sitting there wondering how and why that somebody is wanting you in this form in this state and you're saying I'm somewhat befuddled, I can't believe they like me, and, as I said before, I just add the word or. So come up with your excuse. Let me just add the word or oh Well, I'm too skinny, they might like them skinny. Or oh, I'm too fat, they might like them fat her. So Just remember that you once again come to the land of Mike, believe, a place that makes emerald city look like a pile of green rocks, wonderland, wonder why I was created in the first place and never, never land, wish that it was never created at all. I encourage you to dream like you live forever, but please live like you'll die. Today I quit.