The reality cannot be avoided. It is a law like gravity, speeding up or slowing down. Reality can be controlled, but it cannot be avoided in any way. There are times when I would love to change the law to fit what I am trying to do, purely. I know, reality is inevitable like the paper clip that falls on the table under normal gravitational conditions on earth. That’s all I can start this article with.

Every person has a reality in life that I mentioned earlier, where you can neither win nor lose, you just have to accept it. Also, the miracle does not happen and the Red Sea does not part either. To quote 19th-century financier Jay Gould on this phenomenon: “The perfect speculator, the perfect gambler, so to speak, must know when to get in; more importantly, he must know when to stay out; and most importantly, he must know when to get out once he’s in. Success in a totally realistic situation only comes through the phenomena of that date and in no other way. Trying to get what you want through “genuine” cheating is always ultimately disappointing on some level. The real short-cut methods come through doing it consciously and finding better ways by genuinely working at it, not cheating. Persistence and perseverance are usually the only ways to get through it, that’s what I’m actually proposing, everything else deeply misleads you on a personal level.

Runner Marion Jones realized this after she used performance-enhancing drugs and “sold her soul” to “win it all.” Same with motorcyclist Lance Armstrong. My point? No one really has an easy plan without “genuinely” cheating in some way and even when it “succeeds” it will catch you like a very bad episode of the “Columbo” detective TV mystery movie series in the late 20th century. In short, “the way out” is the path to the last problem from which you cannot escape. But, the path to a real solution comes down to fully admitting reality and working with it instead of trying to cheat reality and get away with it for a while. So I almost end this article with another quote from Jay Gould about Wall Street: “No man can control Wall Street. Wall Street is like an ocean, full of eddies and currents. All you have to do is watch them, exercise a little common sense.” , and the decline of speculation to get to the top”. and I paraphrase that quote with a meaning more applicable to this article: “No one person can control reality. Reality is like an ocean, full of eddies and currents. What you have to do is observe them, exercise a little common sense, and in the diminution of work or speculation to get to the top”. This is how I look at it genuinely and always. There are no miracles here. Just conscious understanding, remembering myself, remembering my limitations, and honestly working through everything. This is the floor, the walls and the ceiling. The house of everything, for me.