The answer is... just a man. The dragon is the representation of chaos. It's the resistence that naturally shows up inside of you when you set a goal and have to take action to actually achieve it. The resistence is the weapon of your old-self, fighting to survive within you. But you must kill it in order for you to become "he who can" achieve the goal that you have set up for yourself. PAIN is the coin with which you shall pay for you to get what you want out of life and this pain will naturally manifest when you meet resistance with effort to overcome it. You want a great physic? Then you must pay with the pain of meeting the resistance to go to the gym, researching what a good diet actually is, resisting the cravings of eating the wrong way and going back to your old habits that damage your body, sticking to your bedtime to actually get the rest your body needs to build muscle amongst other things like getting sunlight to boost your testosterone, sprinting and what not. You want to get rich? You must then figure out what shall be your vehicle and sticking to it for long enough to actually gain a deep undertanding of your niche, working hard at it even when results seem like they'll never show up. You get the point. There's no hero without a villain. There's no pleasure without pain. And the reverse is true. Without pain there's no everlasting pleasure. Choose always delayed gratification, brother... lasts longer and it's sustainable over time. It's the path to greatness, purpose and meaning within this lifetime. Instant gratification will only get you to an existential crisis and depression in the long run. Meaninglessness, regreat, pain. Trust me, I know. I lived it! I was a loser. Now I'm actually prooud of myself. And there's way more pain I'm ready to face now. I'm learning to bathe in it and enjoy it. Don't be silly. Not on that way. You know what I mean. Delusion backed up just by words it's just delusion but delusion backed up by relentless action... that's called faith, brother! Remember: Duty, Honor and Pride!

People think that freedom is doing whathever you feel like doing but there's a key word there: feel. If you always do whathever you feel like doing you are not free, you are simply a slave to your lower based desires, your feelings. The thing is... When you think a little deeper, conjure a vision for your life, figure out what you truly want (and trust me, it's easier than you think, you just need to sit down and actually try, people complain all the time that they don't know what they want or that they can't find meaning in their lives but... Have you ever tried to get away from all the noise and the cheap dopamine for a day, sit the fuck down and actually think in depth about what you want? Have you even asked such question to yourself? You'd be surprise by the astonishing fact that most of the people that complain about this have never even tried to think about it let alone journal with regards to it) you'll come up with a goal, an objective. For example, you think "I don't want to be fat, unhealthy and unattractive. How can I solve that? I'll start eating better and hit the gym." Simple, right? Yes, simple but now easy. That's the thing! Because when you formulate a goal and your do some simple reverse engineering of that goal into a somwhat consistent action you must undertake to achieve it... all of the sudden something comes up... RESISTENCE. And what the fuck is resistence? For that we actually need to understand something first. The goal is not really the goal. I know it sounds confusing but let me explain... The goal is actually to become "he who can" achieve such goal. Because if you were the person that could actually achieve your goals... well, they'd be already achieved, woudn't they? So your current self is not really the one who achieves the goal. It's the improved version of you. And how does this version comes to live? How is it built? It's by meeting resistence with effort. Resistence is the weapon of the old self, trying to stay alive within you. Trying to linger on and keep you as you currently are.