Just My Thoughts….

It’s been some time since I last wrote on my blog. I guess you could say I’ve been speechless, although I am sure that is not the case at all. I have had things on my mind, but nothing that I felt was worthy of space out on a website for the world to see.

I normally give my advice or thoughts of encouragement, but I thought that I would try something new. So, I am writing about what I am thinking in this very moment. I actually just read a friend’s narrative and I was amazed how this young lady was willing to be so transparent. I am still working on that one. Actually, I am making an effort to become more transparent in all that I do.

In just a few short weeks I will be thirty-three years of age and I am both excited and a little weary at the same time. I am excited because I believe that thirty-three will be the age of authentic revelation. However, I am weary because I am about go abroad, get a little older, find out things I thought were once true are no longer true, and I am going to have to expand in some way shape or form.

Wow, that weary aspect is looking to be a bit overwhelming. Naw, I am just kidding. I actually think that this will be one of my most powerful birthdays ever. I know that I will have some challenges before me, but nothing I feel I can’t handle.

Life is good. I am happy. I have peace in many ways I have never had peace before. I will not sit here and lie about being where I would love to be, but I am so far from where I use to be and that is a major start. I think that in life it is all what you make it. Today, I just want to know that I can, and from there I know I will. I am inspired to move. Smile, you should be inspired to move also. If you aren’t inspired that’s ok too, but remember nothing happens until something moves.

These are just my thoughts today.

Comparing Your Worse to Everybody Else’s Best

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.”-Loa Tzu

I am an original masterpiece unique in every way imaginable. However, there were times when I looked at my worst and compared it to someone else’s perceived best. I believe we all fight the fight of comparing ourselves amongst ourselves, but the problem is that looks can be deceiving. We all have faults and failures that we would care not to speak of. There isn’t a person alive that is perfect. Yet, for so many people it is difficult to be content with being authentically who God made them to be.

Even in my most imperfect moments I am perfect. I don’t always look like I stepped out of a salon, or feel like I am on top of the world. However, I am always the best “me” I can possible be. I make mistakes and sometimes they cost me major setbacks, but hey I always seem to be right where I need to be for the moment. For many people they don’t realize the setbacks, failures, and what most call mistakes are just opportunities to perfect themselves or what they are doing.

Today, many people are facing very difficult times, but it is not time to give up. It’s time to find your own calling, the thing that makes you feel alive and ready to move forward. Setbacks are a setup for a comeback, a new way of doing the things you have always done. However, in this time you can’t have your eyes on what someone else is doing and how they are doing what they do. You must find the strength to look within and find the things that make you the best at who you are. Everything looks good when you can’t see what it takes to actually make it work. Have you ever been to Disney World? The whole park looks wonderful. You walk through the park in amazement, but what you don’t think about is all the work being done behind the scenes to make it look so beautiful.

“Every tub must stand on its own bottom.”-unknown

You and I are great masterpieces created by the greatest artist of all time, and to compare one masterpiece to another is insane, because each piece of art had its own inspiration.

Today, I look at where I am in life, and who I am becoming and I realize no one else could have ever made it walking a mile in my shoes. See, my shoes where created just for me. Everything I have gone through was for me. I had to experience the things I have experienced and l learned the things I have learned, so I could be me. So, this is my life. These are my wounds, and even when I don’t feel my greatest I remind myself that I am great. I am great with a pimp on my face, a few extra pounds on my waist, and I am great even when I feel like I am displaced. I realize that I am right where I need to be experiencing just what I need to experience, so that I can be my authentic self. Remember, you owe it to the artist to be your very best at who you are, and not compare yourself to something you could never be for you were meant to be you.