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Determination.

"Its a shield, if you like, a sword if you want it to be and emptiness if you don't recognize it."
Hello Readers.
DETERMINATION
Its such an overrated, overused word and often misinterpreted as "hippy talk".
The word "Determination" is what every English speaking person knows the meaning of and yet doesn't actually know the application of it. I know that in some or any sort of minimalist crisis, its the last thing i think of; But what we all fail to understand, is that determination is one of the greatest human emotions ever. Its not an emotion as such, but the inner drive and motivation all these words essentially describe determination.
It was determination that helped Adolf Hitler commit the greatest genocide in the history of the world. It was Determination that helped Oskar Schindler save hundreds of lives. It was determination that the Manhattan Project resulted in a weapon destructive enough to destroy the entire planet in one go.It was determination that we have the ability of saving cancer victims. And It was determination that Andy Dufresne used to get out of the prison he was wrongfully sent to. I don't think i can ever run out of examples.
My point is that, determination can make a person do wondrous or horrible things. Its like every superpower ever depicted in movies or in comic books, if its in the hands of Batman it'll probably save the entire city; and if its in the hands of joker, he will probably kill Louis Lane and then Superman goes mad and we all know how that turns out.
They say, "Between thought and action, comes temptation" and the only way you can resist the temptation is by determination. We just have to be clever enough to figure out a way to use it.
Temptation, I believe is a temporary thing. Its like a wave of the sea. If you stand still and plant yourself, its harmless, can't move you an inch and eventually it'll go away and leave you as you were to yourself; but if you let yourself go, it'll drag you to the deep waters. That thing you used to plant your feet down, that is what Determination is.
"Its a shield, if you like, a sword if you want it to be and emptiness if you don't recognize it."

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