Expectations

expect the punches to never cease & learn to fight--- expect the fight to get harder & to drag on for what seems like forever & learn to persist--- expect the persistence to become habit & practice patience on the path--- expect patience to seem odd to others, to be deemed a freak, to be written off as “someone trying to be something” & study the way you get scrutinized, watch how you get set underneath every microscope--- expect such study to be criminalized, expect to be scapegoated, expect to be lectured, expect to be threatened & use it all to fight back, use it all to persist, use it all to strengthen your patient resolve & use it all in your individual study (learning from your own mistakes & observing those of others in order to avoid them yourself).