Everyone has been let down by circumstances. We’ve all paid
for the moment that turns into nothing more than a memory hanging on the hooks
of hollow smiles and bloated opportunities. Thrown into the ring, heart
bleeding, ripped from our cavernous chest, expected to fight for a strong
finish only to be splayed on the canvass face down. Knocked out by self deprecation
and fueled by the maddening ideas that everything is somehow built perfectly
somewhere just outside our reach. Displayed just far enough away to make us
ache and dream for the day we too will feel the eyes of acceptance, the warm
touch of approval and credence ribboned throughout the words of our heroes.
Instead, we find ourselves tangled in the thick ropes of
our own fears. Judged by fleeting utterances, that relentlessly keep feeding
our doubts. Tied up and tortured by the few envious words infused with jealousy
and fear from others. When did we stop caring? When did the fascination with people’s
follies or their belligerent tirades become more important or meaningful than an
offered hand or a string of encouraging words?
Bloodied and weakened by the constant pummeling of who we
are expected to be and how we are supposed to act, time won’t stop marching
across our battered bones and ripped skin until every last word of our lives shows
up on the parchment of our soul. Only then will the fighter within us rage
against the constant malevolence of few and change the heart beat of the discontented.
Then we can rise to the occasion and script our pen to paper and pour the blood
of our soul across the pages in a purge so magnificent, the world will have to
wake up and listen.
It is time to reach for the bones of our predecessors and
sculpt the stepping stones of greatness within the rooms of our own minds. It’s
time to close the doors riddled and shaped with contempt and criticism and open
the door infused with intuition and honor. We must rise above the fray of
pugnacious hostility, fear, guilt, and jealousy, purge them from our veins,
drain them from our hearts, and uproot them from our minds.
True Power occurs when recognized and harnessed for a
purpose. When searching outside the walls of our own souls, we may stumble;
even misplace the only key that unlocks the secrets to embodying our permanent
balance. But never will we lose the ability to look beyond the limited idea of
who we think we are, and be reminded that what we are searching for, we are
searching with. We are the key to our
own happiness; we are the key to our
own success. We are the only keeper of thoughts that reside in our own minds. It
is what we do with those thoughts and ideas that shape our experience and in
turn shape the world around us that counts. Make your decisions count, without
being smug. Let your voice be heard, without shouting. And let your love be
felt, without limits. And always be grateful for the journey!
Thanks for hanging out and reading my ramblings!
