Circa 2012 @ Dean Playground - Post a Saturday Morning Mohican Pickup Match...đ...***
âWho you are is defined by what youâre willing to struggle for.â - Mark Manson
YOU...
are your own rough draft. the practice in the doing...the work in progress, a singing seedling, a magnum opus in the making and less a journeyman/woman in traipsing. Sometimes you are animal, other times human, and perhaps occasionally a figment of your own pursuing- an aspiring state of beeing.
You push play, press pause, and turn the volume up or down- be it that of your voice and intentions, that of your phone, the instrument, or your two feet. ONLY YOU can motivate, carry yourself thru, and FIND a way to trust you - and that intuition. Whether you're obsessing over that lost tooth or trying to find your dentures, it's better to focus on finding your fangs.
BUT it's also up to you to dog ear those corners, take notes, own yourself, and take action. But even before you do, remember to hold the door open for the stranger behind you and even lock the door behind you as needed. To look both ways before crossing the street, turn on your blinkers when making that turn, and to check your own temperature and internal compass from time to time. Try not to waste the precious potential before you, those remaining minutes and years ahead. This is your job, and everyone's most important mission- long before the occupation and attempts at changing it and your underwear.
How compelled are you? What drives you, makes your engine run, your brain tick, tickles your toes, and brings joy to your world? Are you engaged in delivering, actively searching, or attempting to step outside your box? Consider your life to be your most serious mission, and not just that next transaction or match. And whatever you do, please do NOT wait for the world and time to pass you by. Do not get too wrapped up in that pendulum and get stuck waiting and watching. You are kindle, fire, kinetic energy, a majestic force and light!
So if you don't succeed, you just keep trying. There is no other way. But IS there only one answer and one way to be? Clearly NOT. Channel better and forget the disappointment and regret. Even though it may take you 3 steps back to achieve those 5 steps forward., there will always be moments of tug of war between the future and the past. Best to let bygones be gone, savor the memories, shake off the dust and fight on...
If you don't knock, they won't hear you. If you don't ask, they won't answer. If you don't fall, you'll never know how to get up or what it means to be hurt. It's okay to hesitate, acknowledge those detours, surrender to the ex post facto, but it clearly takes opening doors for opportunities to present themselves.
Learn to have respect for others different than you, but it's also common sense, and human decency will not cost you another cent. Naturally money, resources, and circumstances simply "changes situations", the playing field, and affect the decisions you make and determine how you maneuver your days. The ultimate truth is that the material world will always be there- long after we've all exited in dust.
#BYOB - means what it does. It is the onus, and the truth is the ONUS is as it says- on us.
Be it. And bring it. Be your own Boss. Bee your own Badass. The decisions, the deciphering, and the baton are yours. Now channel your crew!
Channel your bigger self and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck !
âNot giving a fuck does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different." - Mark Manson The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
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