About Being a Rascal
About Being a Rascal
Understand this. If you are going to be a Rascal and you try for excellence, you will be opposed. You will encounter resistance, and you will hit the point of frustration. Guaranteed.
Do not be surprised or shocked to discover that that's the landscape; and don't be tempted to think that mediocrity, and ease, and peaceful existence is a better alternative. It's not!
I'm talking more about being somebody that doesn't fit the mold, that doesn't run with the sheep, that's not running off the cliff with everybody else. You're just a little different. You're the one that leads the herd. That's a rascal. Right?
The Rascal Manifesto
I was born free and I intend to live life. This means that I will live my life while I am alive. No one owns me except my creator. No one can put me in a box, a category, a social group, a voting box, or a classification. I am fiercely independent and with those aligned with me in common purpose, interdependent. I am a learning machine. I read. I confront brutal reality and I grow.
That's a Rascal. Right?
I'm not afraid to struggle because it's the struggle that makes me great. I know that excellence always lies on the other side of inconvenience. Long term no one and nothing can defeat me because I will keep coming back stronger and better than before. I will educate myself about the true principles of freedom, and I will strive mightily to preserve freedom for the next generation. I rely on no man and no government to provide for me. I will not follow the herd of mediocrity and victim thinking. I don't follow herds. Instead I run with a pack. A pack of Rascals. Let others bask in their their privileges, as for me, I will invest them in my purpose. I will defy tyranny. I will charge the hill. I will make a difference.