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Kick Rocks

Kick Rocks

Writer: Riley Bost
Riley Bost
Aug 9, 2025
1 min read

Updated: Aug 30, 2025

You’ll get them tomorrow? No you won’t. Tomorrow is a lie. Your enemy is here.

Defeat it now. Hesitation is poison.

The fire you feel right now will be ash by morning. You’ll wake up, the righteous anger, the passion, the desire to never fail again. It will have already faded away.

Tell me I’m wrong. Tell yourself you’re wrong.


That voice whispering, “You can’t… you’re not enough… you’ll fail.” That’s not you.

That’s the thing that’s been choking you.


Don’t argue with it. Don’t let it lull you to sleep. Crush it.

Before it grows teeth.


Every moment you stall, the pit gets deeper.

The mirror turns colder.

You start believing you are what you hate. Seeing a failure. A fraud. A mistake.


Lose. Lose again. Till you’re sick of the taste. But don’t go to sleep without swinging back.

Spit the blood out and stand.

No ceremony. No speech. No grandiose cheer from the crowd.

Just breathe—and move.


Winning isn’t a trophy.

It’s the refusal to stop swinging.

It’s looking victory in the eye and saying, “Again.”

It’s telling defeat, “Try me one more time.”


The dangerous individual isn’t the one who wins—it’s the one who refuses to give up, to settle, while they’re still breathing. So—stand up. Now.

 
 
 

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