Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.