I HOPE YOU CHOKE

I hope you choke.  I wish misfortune upon you.  I hope you snap and break, that you fail, that you suffer defeat and that it all falls apart right in front of your eyes.  I hope you experience unfathomable pain, misery, torment and anguish.  Why?  Because the only way to experience this is to completely overreach.  To way exceed your capabilities and limitations and go completely beyond the scope of your abilities.  To actually have finally pushed yourself so hard that you break.  In short, I hope that you bite off more than you can chew, and as such, I hope you choke.

There are worse ways to go

People wish for success for others, and it’s the complete wrong direction to hope for.  Success breeds stagnation.  Successful people are too content.  Failure motivates change.  It is the catalyst for improvement.  And the people that do everything possible to avoid failure are in turn simply and ironically failing at a much grander level.  They refuse to experience failure to the point that they simply never try hard enough to be able to fail, which in turn means not enough to succeed either.  They live lukewarm existences free of pain, misery, and anguish…but also free of the thrill of victory and the elation of overcoming.

Make no mistake; I am praying for your demise.  This isn’t some cheesy “darkest before the dawn” sort of thing.  I’m hoping that the dawn comes and inflicts a vicious sunburn on you that eventually gets infected and causes you to die.  I’m hoping that you choke; not that you eventually spit out what you bit off.  But why?  Because to reach that point, you’ll have had to have broken through a LOT of different plateaus and barriers.  To reach the point where you reach has FINALLY exceeded your grasp, you’ll have passed by a ton of people still refusing to even try.  You’ll surpass many self-imposed limitations and restrictions and governors people put on themselves simply out of fear, and you’ll evolve into something far superior.

This would be a good start

And then you will expire.  Make no mistake about it: you will be the cause of your own demise.  But man, what power huh?  That is the absolute peak of power: to be able to control one’s own destiny.  To not be a victim of fate, but instead the one at the reigns.  The one who dictates and decides the future.  You crumble and fail and ultimately die, but by your own hand, on your own terms.  A violent death, facing off against dragons and demons you have absolutely no business whatsoever facing, compelled only by your own hubris and the believe that nothing is beyond your own abilities.  Doesn’t that seem so much more satisfying than peacefully expiring in your bed, slowly dying of absolutely nothing?

This is the consequence of pursuing greatness; it WILL consume you.  You are a human, which makes you a finite being.  You have an expiration date stamped on you from birth.  You will hit a peak, after which time you will simple become worse and worse until you eventually expire.  If you spend your existence constantly pushing the envelope, one day it will push back.  But the thing is, this will happen regardless.  The only difference between the person chasing greatness and the person chasing mediocrity is that the latter will get to do it for longer…but why would you want to?  What could possibly be your motivation to rack up some sort of high score for longest amount of time spent accomplishing nothing?  Yeah, if you chase a 700lb bench, you’re probably going to get stapled and crushed in your 40s or 50s when the strength reaper eventually says “no”, but at least you made it that far, rather than waiting to expire at the age of 90 because you slipped in the bathtub, broke your hip and died. 

Or then there's this

At least if you choke it means you tried to bite off more than you could chew.  At least if you fail, it means you were trying to succeed.  No one cares about an undefeated record if it also contains no wins and no losses, and a guy who steps in the ring with a record of 0 wins and 400 defeats is a goddamn warrior, because nothing stops that person.  There is nothing more terrifying than a human with no quit in them, because you legitimately do not know what they are capable of.  Their max potential has yet to be realized, and you are watching it unfold in front of you as they fail, fall, get crushed, and get right back up and try again and again.  As they keep biting off more chunks and painfully swallowing them before moving onto the next bigger bite. 

It’s why I hope you choke.  Wish peace on your enemies, so that they never grow into the unstoppable monster you will one day be.  Wish joy on those that hold you back.  Pray for the safety of those you despise.  Hope for them no opportunities to overcome and grow strong.  Take it all for yourself, and grow into something hideous.  Become an affront to all that is good and pure and beautiful, because you will in turn be strong.  And when people see what you choked on, they will be disgusted you ever took such a big bite in the first place, because the thought to do so will have never crossed their mind.