How to Pull Yourself Up When Everyone Else Is Pushing You Down

Bullied, check✓. Mocked, check✓. Discouraged, check✓. Verbally abused, check✓. Humiliated, check✓, Hated, check✓. What else have you got? They are all checked✓, checked✓, and checked✓.

I probably have gone through a lot of negative shit from the age of eight to thirty that most people haven’t experienced in their entire lives. Yet I’m still here talking to you like a king as if nothing happened to me and spending a wonderful life.

I have always fallen into shitty deep holes, yet always figured out how to dig myself out or turn the table on the situation. I continually pull myself up from the neck and stand straight and strong. I think the reason for that is the loss of an extremely close family member at eight.

That loss of attention and care has taught me a lot about how to play smart around people and deal with situations against my interests to get what I want.

The loss of a parent and being singled out in a house with plenty of stepbrothers who can get whatever they desire. At the same time, you are left ignored on the side. That position requires you to think and interact strategically against all the unfavorable decisions people make against you.

I have never told anyone about the loss of my mother from breast cancer, I never liked…