stand resolved "cross the rubicon"

if there is one thing i would emphasize on this would be it. stand resolved in your life. no matter what anyone else would say or do to you stay resolved.

a lot of things will shake and attempt to tear you apart while you grow. peer pressure, popular culture, and everything inbetween.

light a fire in yourself that cannot be smothered or consumed. light such a candle that can be seen by all as an eternal flame.

lead softly the simple and inexperienced. lift up the fallen and feeble. i don't care what nature would have you think with the whole might makes right and only the strong survive.

face your future not with uncertainty but with resoluteness. pierce the inner parts of tyranny and evil. do not let bad men and evil peoples pass by unnoticed and unchecked.

but above all cross the rubicon.

in 44 b.c. julius caesar and his army stopped at the banks of the tiny rubicon.

to cross the rubicon meant war, civil war against rome herself. but to continue in silent service meant keeping his army on the opposite side of the rubicon.

caesar had the tough decision as he pondered by the banks. waqr or peace?, republic or empire? one fateful decision.

since then crossing the rubicon means making an irreversible decision. taking the consequencses in hand.

caesar crossed the rubicon, and won his civil war. but later would sadly lose his life by hand of several angry senators.

i thank you all for listening.

"cross the rubicon"