Rise Again From The Struggle

Use it or lose it

The less you use things, the more your body and mind will discard them. It's got enough to deal with, so it'll dump the things you don't use to make more room for the things you do. But you can get that back by using it again and relearning the skills.

Hard on yourself or others?

If you hold high standards for yourself, then you are doing a disservice to others if you don't hold them to a high standard as well.

Don't fool yourself

It's very easy to fool yourself into thinking either you're better or worse than you think. That you're more or less intelligent than you really are. It's just simple conditioning. Your opinion and ideas are graded and decided on by some "authority" who might not believe you. Or maybe you were constantly catered to by someone that didn't want to hurt your feelings. Either way, don't continue the path. Question, investigate, and decide independent of others.

Don't disappoint yourself

This doesn't mean you should idolize yourself nor seek the opinion of others. It does mean that you need to be selective and not allow your made up notion of what you think their opinion might be to stop you from even trying.

The wise and the foolish

Plato had a few interesting things to say 😂. This one is spot on. Fools need to talk to feel relevant. The wise talk to inform when necessary. Which one are you?