The Benefit Of Having A Developed And Matured Edge As A Person

[Salaam]

What do you think it means when people say that another person has an edge to them? Do you know what your edge feels like? Do you have one? Do you know what it's for and how to develop it?

We develop our Edge, by being on the outside edge of our comfort and safety and by expanding beyond them. Facing and communing with the things that reside in those places. Risking ourselves and going farther then we did before.

Challenge, Resistance, Restraint, Rejection, and Scarcity on one side. Meaning, Success, Growth, Wisdom, and Gratitude on the other side.

The first side are the fires we face that temper our edge as people. And the second side, once you pass through are the gifts and adaptations that polish that edge, making us shine, our eyes alight with fire.

When you face a challenge, rather than avoid it and adapt as you overcome it.
When you face resistance and it doesn't stop or deter you and you adapt as you move despite it.
When you can break through the restraints placed on you and expand.
When you can buckle down and restrain and shape yourself rather than float and be carried along by pressure.
When you can still hold onto your choice and direction when others reject it.
When you can face the most scarce of environments within and outside yourself and still build atop that wasteland, creating abundance.

When you can do all of the above as a person who you are changes and people pick up on it. You have a strength, a fire to you that others find attractive. They trust you, because you don't lie to avoid facing challenge and resistance. They depend on you because they know you will move forward and not be deterred if you care about a thing enough. The know you will not bow down, because you are beyond the restraints of others and answer to yourself.

They know you will burn and bleed and face the darkest and emptiest places and build life on top of it, because your edge is that developed.

... now most people have no idea what such a person looks like. What a matured and fully developed edge expresses as, but at least now you know how to create it for yourself.

Let your spirit shine and embrace challenge and the meaning of resistance just as much as you embrace the beauty of love.

It takes both sides to be complete people. Scarcity and Abundance. Love and Resistance. Attraction and Repulsion.

We as human beings stand astride the edge where both of those sides meet. Expanding from that point into the mysterious depths both realms have to offer.

"Rule of thumb: The more important a call or action is to our soul's evolution, the more resistance we will feel toward pursuing it" ~ Steven Pressfield.

Edited April 18, 2017 by Salaam

[Salaam]

@egoeimai you mentioned wanting to know more about resistance. Maybe this might be of value to you.