Nature Has Laws: You Can Bend Them for a While, But You Can’t Outsmart Them Forever

 

....ambition has a tax, and the tax collector is merciless

It’s not everyone who can lie down in comfort and still rise in greatness. Some spirits refuse the pillow of ease; they burn differently, restless until destiny bows.

When the Olympics was introduced, some athletes came only to participate. Others came with medals carved in their dreams - gold, for silver, bronze glittering in their imagination before the gun ever fired. The difference? Sacrifice.

Patrick Evra, the former Manchester United defender, once revealed that Sir Alex Ferguson was not just a coach; he was a storm in a tracksuit. Call a player lazy, and Ferguson would call him “son of a bitch” to his face. His law was simple: if I line up my eleven, no team in the world dares to humble them. That wasn’t arrogance. That was order. That was nature in boots.

People now call him lucky. But where were those same voices when other coaches stood on the same pitch, with the same grass, the same whistle, the same board meetings, and yet became serial failures? Luck? No. Law. The law that sacrifice and vision cannot be cheated forever.

Celebrities too pay their toll. We see their light, but rarely their shadows. Ferguson nearly sacrificed the warmth of family, stretched his retirement like a man stretching time itself, just to keep his dynasty alive. Ambition has a tax, and the tax collector is merciless.

Society calls it obsession, critics call it madness. Yet the truth is simple: those who bend the laws of nature with sweat, sacrifice, and vision may walk wounded, but never broken. Those who try to bend it with shortcuts, deceit, or comfort? Nature waits, smiling. It breaks them in due season.

So let it be written:

Greatness is never free.

Comfort is never loyal.

And nature… nature is never mocked.

Abioye Tosin Lawrence is the Publisher of Oriontimes Online Newspaper and author of the forthcoming memoir, Voices from the Fire: My Journey Through a Hollow Empire.