CHAPTER 4: TAKING SOULS

                Hello there readers. Welcome to the next chapter of this series, "TAKING SOULS". This chapter is quite special from the other chapters because the caffeine-like adrenaline rush you can attain through reading this chapter is highly motivational. Getting knocked down by our outer circumstances, falling down like we can't even get up again, and becoming hopeless are common.

                That is the crucial part where one's true nature would be projected into this world. That situation is an opportunity to choose who we want to be. Most of us don't want to suffer. Suffering and pain are where winning is. A bad awful thing can change a person's entire personality.

                We all would have studied scenarios where our great leaders would have experienced a bad past which changed them to be the greatest of all time. Goggins too found his purpose by going through a hardship where he was insulted and targeted by his trainers at the BUDS training program. He wanted to prove them all wrong that he ain't nobody. We all say we don't have to prove ourselves to anyone and that's right. But, breaking others' judgment on our capabilities is our own duty. It's the same as standing up for ourselves when no one does. 

                Goggins always had a fear of water. He doesn't know how to swim, but his dream is bigger than his fears. By overcoming his own fears he learnt swimming and joined the BUDS Program. But, the training in that program was way more difficult than the expectation of Goggins. The recruiters needed to be more tough on the candidates to ensure their willpower. Goggins analyzed the module of the BUDs training program. From that, he understood that it was all a mind game more than a physical one. 

                Unfortunately, one of the recruiters assigned to Goggins and his batch was too harsh on him. He always had a tough time with him, abusing his body in the name of training. There is no such thing as rejecting or terminating a candidate in this training program. It's up to the candidates to choose whether they want to stay or quit the training program. Thus, due to the hardness level of the training many of them quit walking past the door leaving their dream to fall down into pieces. But, Goggins stood there unfazed to suck out the souls of others by becoming the toughest among all in the camp. He accepted the pain of suffering rather than the pain of regret. 

                It's just the ego that he had as a driving force when everyone said he could not complete that program. As he desired he stood up on his own will and completed all the tasks in front of his trainer taking his soul down to the earth and proving to him that Goggins wasn't a man of false speech. He accepted all the challenges and proved to everyone that nothing is impossible for Goggins.  So does it imply for all of us?

                The answer is a big yes and we have to pursue our inner self and master our minds to do the impossible. Hope you enjoyed today's chapter. See you all in the next chapter until then, this is your thamizh signing off...