Falling Upwards
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Last published Tue, Dec 13, 2022
Failing upwards refers to a series of failures which are beneficial to an individual's career; failures providing learning experiences - adapted from Simplicable.com.
Falling can happen in many ways. Perhaps you fell from a height. Perhaps you fell from grace. Perchance, you were at the top, but then everything came crashing down at you.
What if that descent allowed you a new path to change? What if a new doorway was opened? Maybe your sins can be forgiven.
What if, instead of falling and hit the floor, you fell upwards instead?
What if instead of descending, you ascended?
What if you lost everything, just to be given a better chance?
It's too bad that the road to redemption is not easy.
Oliver Prince, a teenaged delinquent with abnormal strength, has his iron-grip of reality forcibly taken from him when he messes with a foreigner. This puts him in
cahoots with an extravagant man who will open his eyes to a side of life which was only relegated to fiction.
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