‘Startuping’ — If you’re going to try, go all the way! pt.10
Part 10 of my weekly startup post!
This week’s post is going to be short and sweet. I am going to share with you a poem by author Charles Bukowski. The week was challenging and a screw-up! In these challenging times, often people look for inspiring words or stories that uplift their spirit and give people the courage to persist.
The poem is quite fittingly named “Role the Dice”.
Here it goes:
if you’re going to try, go all the way.
otherwise, don’t even start.
if you’re going to try, go all the way.
this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days.
it could mean freezing on a park bench.
it could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation.
isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it.
and you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine.
if you’re going to try, go all the way.
there is no other feeling like that.
you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire.
do it, do it, do it. do it.
— Charles Bukowski
I found this gem of an edit of Lex Friedman, reciting the same poem by Chispa Motivation.
I hope the poem has the same awe-inspiring effect on you, as it had on me. So let’s go all the way!