I think someone said beautifully “there is no love in war” or something.

Where you don’t hate or love your enemy, they just are and you have to win.
That is the soul of war and competition.

A better you, simply put, is you moving in a direction that suits you and allows you to move in a
direction that you wish to move into.
This does have a lot of caveats, but this is mostly the meaning.

The “nature” vs “nurture” debate was something, that I did hope I addressed.
In general, I try to get the message across of fixing that which you can fix versus worrying about that
which you can’t fix.
Your face can be changed to some degree, but change the things that have the biggest impacts, and
then come back to things that take longer and are more complicated to change.
Like if you changed your mindset about failure, you could accomplish so much more in a day, than if you
just got plastic surgery.

With this, I used the warrior (as mentioned previously), to denote that neutral attitude.
Depending on the person, they may need to start with positivity first, and then move to more neutral.
(Because it gives that extra boost).

I think that was addressed, or briefly addressed. When I try to tell people to be unabashed and to be
focused inwardly, it tends to have the notion of “focus on you, and don’t blame anyone else”.

That is something that I wanted to address as well. That slowing down, in fact, can be the fastest way to
moving forward.

That is the main reason I tried to make it more akin to war. Because wars seemingly have no end until
they just do. And another one can break out at anytime. So I focus on saying “the journey is the
destination”. Move forward, focus on taking that first step.

Honestly, you are free to think about life as something more peaceful, but the image you has still has
the same messages.
That is why we went from a forest to a battlefield, because it can be anything.
But war, and fighting gets people pumped up. If you tell someone they are a dragon, it inspires
confidence. If you tell someone they are a fish floating through a stream, they will be more peaceful and
patient. Because that is the image we have of those things.

I do try to address the warmness and the patience aspect by denoting that other people are also fighting
the same demons, and help those who need it. The spirit of the hero, that notion that you want to help
someone, is incredibly warm. But I bring that up because people equate being nice with doing whatever
people tell you to do, even if it causes you great harm.

The reason I made this is so you can fight with a smile. But there really isn’t a “darkness”, because life
isn’t as simple as good versus evil, and I didn’t want that to come across in my writing.
Mainly wanted to focus on that you have someone to defeat. While I say enemy (a term mostly used in
war), I bring it back to the fact that it is ourselves, allowing people to look inwardly.
Because they are parallel, in fact, they have the same weaknesses that you do, subsequently the same
strengths. So everyday is a battle up that hill, and you are trying to be better than yourself. So for them
as well, they are your past self. But they aren’t exactly your dark half. Because when you do that, you
separate and make it an “us vs them” scenario. I want people to realize that you have to be whole, not
split.