Yep excardosia, quoting from another here somewhere. It fits, like a bug in a rug.
As does this: Stop consenting - Voila! - their power vanishes.
Special? Darn tootin'. And the special for the day is No Consentio with a side of Don't Do Dat.
I simply don't, just don't, no pea picking don't.
There may be time involved, effects, things that need to be done. You just have to proceed, one foot forward, one step at a time, two up and one back, take a breather, two more - whatever the progress, you can make progress.
I heard a guy say something once, and it stuck - it was John Bon Jovi of all people, talking about his success. He said "when you want something bad enough it's not hard to get".
I'm not telling anyone else they gotta want it, they gotta do this or don't do that or do anything at all. But I know me and I can blither and deliberate forever on things but when there's something that I want, something I need to do and I want it bad enough I may crawl through muddy stumps to get it but I don't care. If I don't really want it I'll stop at the first sign of a blister but something important to me, blisters are my friends.
I think most people are like that. We all have scars and all the stories aren't fun to tell how we got them. Everyone has a scar they hide, everyone has a place inside that's got a story better left untold.
Life goes on. You said it once - I'll take what I get in this life and take what's coming to me in the next. I'll do the best I can with what I've got. It's not all up to me, wish it was and maybe it's better it's not, but it's not.
In between I hope to "get it right". The clock is ticking.