Letting your guard down is something that can help you and can also hurt you. It is tough to tell when you can let it down and when you must have it up. Experience can help you determine when to use either, luck can help you. At some point for someone you will have to be able to let your guard down or else would we say you are even living? I like to do things on my own, but I know that as humans we must be social to live. It is one of our primary needs that we must fulfill, or we can run into trouble. We are best off meeting someone that compliments us and adds to us being great. Life is tough on its own, so a big rule is never making another person’s life tougher than it needs to be. You can do it and cut the corner for yourself. I have seen that eventually you will end up having the same thing done to you. We can tend to think that we can make life difficult for someone that we determine is weaker than us, but that can be a big mistake. Never underestimate someone because that can really hurt you. Remember in a way what you give out to the universe can come back at you. Please by all means laugh at me and call me crazy and then see what ends up happening. You can do things any way you want to, but there can always be consequences for doing this. That is what makes things tough to think about and where we must figure out how far we are willing to go. We determine what we will do, so it is always important to think about our actions. We want to act and not think about things and that has benefits and drawbacks. A benefit is acting impulsively can get us the things we desire, the drawback can be going too far in the action we are trying to do. There are always limits that we can take. When you hear a poor version of the national anthem, when a new comedian is not very funny, when a movie is dragging on and on. There are limits and eventually we will leave and what happens. You feel left with yourself, or the room becomes empty. So, you know how far you are willing to go now and what you want to have. Toughness can come from trying one thing and persevering through it no matter what happens. Toughness can be when you end up rejected everywhere until we change into something and succeed. Remember failure is never the scariest thing in life, not trying is. Failure gives you opportunities for success the next time. Failure can lead to success. Not trying will automatically lead to failing, which is why it is the wrong approach. People think I have been successful no matter what I have been doing. This is because I know that when one door closes you continue towards the open door (there is always an open door).