You may be reading this and be thinking to yourself that I made a goof in the title.
“serJR” you say, “surely you meant to write ‘The one-fuckin-eighty’”?
Well, you see... one-fuckin-eighty isn’t a thing you do.
It’s not like the soft 180 or the hard 180.
It’s a frame of mind.
It’s a state of being.
You either are one-fuckin-eighty or you aren’t.
What you do either is one-fuckin-eighty or it isn’t.
They say that there’s only four or five moments in our lifetime that really matter. Moments where you’re offered a choice and everything else falls away.
Well... this is one of them. None of us chose to be here, yet here we stand. Nothing will change that. All we can do is choose our path moving forward. And nobody else can do that for us.
So the question is – who will you be?
• When it’s all been taken away, and you throw down you gloves because that means it’s finally time to get serious – that is one-fuckin-eighty.
• When you’ve been thrown under the bus, and you just turn around and take a swing at it – that is one-fuckin-eighty.
• When fate takes a swing at you, and you tell it that it hits like a bitch – that is one-fuckin-eighty.
• When you hit the wall, and you know that it’s just wasting both your time – that is one-fuckin-eighty.
• When you know that you’re going through hell and you decide that you need to cross through it anyway – that is one-fuckin-eighty.
• When a challenge crosses your path, and you stare it down because you know you will systematically dismantle and embarrass it – that is one-fuckin-eighty.
• And when the devil stares you down, and you just smile back at him – that is one-fuckin-eighty.
It’s about realising that deep down, when you cut all the fluff away, that you are 100% verifiable, absolute badass. It’s about not putting up with bullshit and making a conscious decision to deal with it. It’s about rising above. It’s about taking a stand. It’s about making a choice.
It ain’t going to be easy. You gotta stay true – both to the person you want to be and to what you believe in.
Sometimes this means dealing with an ugly reality. Sometimes this means dealing with difficult choices. You will hurt. You will cry. You will stumble. And you will wish it were all just a bad dream.
But you will stand back up. You will lift your head. You will realise how strong you truly are. You will find hope. You will make it. You will get through it. And you will move forward to create your own future with every precious choice that you make.
Believe in yourself.
Because when you go through all this bullshit, and you realise that you will be okay – that... that... is pure one-fuckin-eighty.