Into the Lions Den

Even though I view life as a simple easy, breezy, smiling towards the sun process- deep down in my heart I’m always longing for my “nitche in society”. Yes, sometimes it gets to me being that im 24 and do not have a wad of cold cash in my pocket. I like to think that my constant glow of life and the feeling of freedom is always a part of my heritage, and now even embedded into my fingerprints. I am happy, and always will be simply ecstatic being Matthew Benham. For some of us, maybe that big wad of cash isn’t as important as the smell of freshly cut grass in the summertime, or being at the bowling ally with your friends every Thursday night as of late. Or even left alone with my thoughts at any of my secret spots, where I can be my absolute self and enjoy the process of learning about the world through my everyday existence.
As life goes on all that im ever doing is progressing and learning. Bettering myself everyday, in health and in happiness. The truth is that I feel absolutely great about everything, all day and everyday. Im not quite sure if any one person or even team could put the smallest of dents into my pride or well being. In fact, I tend to look forward to the obstacles and when it really comes down to it, maybe one day I will have the opportunity to achieve absolute and unfiltered greatness.
I realized that there’s no easy and simple way to approach doing this. Living a lazy life leaves you with no options and you may never even have the opportunity to experiment and even take aim at any “nitche” at all. Theres a strong feeling of standing tall and throwing yourself into the lions den so to speak. Go out there and open up your options, with a conclusion of the experience in the realest of forms.
Taking the plunge “into the lions den” will only benefit you. Go and try out for the best, most qualified job, career or even military branch. Picture it as so- working out at the gym with someone using steroids. They exit the bathroom slapping their joint-opposite their elbow- and their eyes look up into yours and after a long pause, and their pupils dilate just a bit and they ask “are you ready?”
The question of “are you ready?” isn’t the important factor taking place here, it’s the experience of being among the best and strongest and training yourself with the same mind frame with the only exception of a healthy approach. Strong , powerful experience can mold the person you are and to be honest, if your plunging directly into the lions den so to speak, maybe right off the bat you have no chance of wining the fight so to speak. What you can learn from this is everything. Maybe after the fight you realized your not the person you thought you once were, you’re a bit more level minded and keep your head up and ready for anything at any given time.
We as humans, must take the “lions den” approach to improving our existence. We must go out, and keep the thought constant to higher our own standards for the better of ourselves. Maybe it will better everyone, not just yourself. You start attending the gym, than maybe out of kindness your friends may understand that your attempting the path to grown stronger and they just may, offer you their company.
More importantly than me sitting here at my computer writing this, is how it relates into my life. Its no secret that I took the Suffolk County Police Department Test and did well. Now, am I going to become a police office officer as a cause from this? - most likely not. Would I like to and enjoy being one? Yes. This is so because it’s the absolute best god thing out there for someone in my place and frankly anyone local of my age. Now, when I took the test I had no idea what to expect at all, and maybe in retrospect I was “throwing myself into the lions den”. Now that I’m down the road and passed the agility portion I have decided that- whatever happens, I’m absolutely glad to have benefited from the experience. Running at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge everyday was/has been the most enjoyable of all blessings for an outdoorsman feeling the coming spring. Maybe , for someone in my shoes, I have stumbled into enlightenment. Brought fourth the idea that I am in absolute control, and can throw my body, mind into any career or any situation necessary for my existence as a whole to learn and progress from the experience. Assuming that I cannot beat any lion in a fight- is a deeper frame of mind that I have even made it in all of my 24 years of existence. Why run for president when you know you have no chance, and the numbers prove that its just about impossible. Maybe you’ll learn something along the way, about the world, about the wars, about how our country is run and governed and most of all, I hope that you just may have learned something about yourself and maybe your views on the world and the ideas in which you reside.
I highly believe in this approach and as my body and mind grow stronger/healthier with time, I just may throw myself out there in the world in hopes of one day holding the power to do something bigger in society. Help those in need of help, for maybe one day when I was younger it was me and my mind which was stuck in the dark room of existence. I’m just glad that through the slimest of numbers I have a mind so fresh and growing the intelligence to take note and say aloud to myself “hey Matt wait, This experience will make you a better person” .So yes, my “nitche in society” will ultimately clash and go hand and hand with the pathways deemed “caution- absolute greatness, only progress knowing that at the end the lion awaits you”