For steel to strengthen, it must first be immersed in the hottest flame.
The strength of a man is forged the same.
The Phoenix rises from the ashes bearing no name, a slate with no stain – nothing left to lose, everything to gain.
Innocent beginnings and excruciating endings. Lessons learned the hardest way. Hard lessons created the man you see today, and inspired him to find his own way like a battle-tested soldier.
What hurts, but does not kill you only makes you colder. It raises the limit of the weight you’re able to carry on your shoulder.
Because of that, I’m bolder in the sense that no thing can fear me. You can feel confidence radiating when you stand near me. At this point a cast iron pan couldn’t even seer me because I’ve been initiated — far from my final form but I’m ascending to a top-tier me.
No longer aimlessly pursuing. Instead, cultivating my mind is what I’m doing. And I’ve grown to appreciate the pain I feel from the flame
Because it reminds me that I’m still human.
Q. A.
Quan Amiri 