Self-flagellation

Posted on by Reena Saxena

The wounds we bear often stem from self-inflicted pain.

I watched others sprint through the corridors of success while I remained a passive bystander.

Excuses about not finding the right platform are clichéd.

I never sought a godfather’s help, unwilling to accept anyone as divine.

But in those perilous corridors, protection requires an army—one I failed to assemble.

Now, I stand atop self-respect, yet at the nadir of success.

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  3. Excellent reminder, Reena, of how we all may be found guilty of self-sabotage and the ensuing “self-flagellation”.

    It is at the moment we call ourselves out on it, when we get out of our own way, that we allow opportunity for the success that is all around us, to be ours.

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  6. if we’re talking about the wounds that shape our relationship with the world around us (and the people who make it up), I would respectively argue that all wounds are self-inflicted.

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