Modes of ^Boundary

Nice guys finish ^Last… until they ^Learn to ^Fortify themselves.  In other ~words~, nice guys finish ^Last until they ^Learn that it is ^Okay to ^Be not ^Okay, and it is nice not to ^Be nice! 

And we can't ^Know ^How to ^Defend against ~evil~ nor ^See within ourselves its supports while we ^Let it ^Remain ~unknown~ to others or our world.  We ^Need walls to stand against ~weather~ and ^Similar threats to our ~safety~ and comfort.  After we ^Win-or-lose hard battles, we ^Want to ^Sustain and ^Protect ourselves against an attack of time and another enemy. 

The modes of ^Boundary ^Help us reject or repel a ~force~ in our world for our ~betterment~.  They include ^Harm, ^Hope, ^Judge, ^Refine, ^Surprise, ^Unknown and ^Worry. 

If we ^Never ^Fortify ourselves, many ~actions~ in ~life~ ^Become as sandcastles: exceptionally ~beautiful~ and very ~temporary~.  We ^Want some (not all) things in this ~life~ to ^Be ~temporary~, for it may ^Give our ~life~ the ~joy~ of greater ~variety~.  It may ^Inspire us to ^Take ^More of a ~chance~ each time to ^Renew it and then we ^Find ^More ~benefit~ ~long-term~ thereby.  Impermanence may ^Serve to ^Encourage and ^Magnify our ~agency~: to ^Choose ^Regularly, to ^Seek a ~space~ of ~trust~ and to have a world for which we may ^Care. 

Eventually, to the extent that every enemy, even time, becomes a ~friend~, ^Let us not ^Build walls that we can't tear down nor lock any door until we ^Consider ^Who may ^Hold keys to it ^Now or ^Later. 

All that said, although I don't have a remarkable ~talent~ to send ^Evil against itself, I will ^Commit to ^Keep a few concepts in ~particular~.  Most strongly, I ^Commit to ^Say ^No.  I will have to ^Become ^Really stubborn and ^Say, if there is ^One thing that I am not ^Grateful for, it is (in-)~gratitude~.  And to ^Be ^Honest, I have had ^Enough paranoia and ~fear~, so from ^Now on I will ^Continue to (mis-)~trust~ all my (mis-)~trust~.  Yet in all this I will ^Be ~firm~ as ~roadblock~ to all my stubbornness.  I can ^Start today!  ^Join me if you ^Like or ^Hide behind the wall.  It is a ~choice~ you can ^Make too.  May it ever ^Be ours to so to do.