Current mood:
validated
It is late, or early... Depends on how you look at things I guess. Because there is always more than one way to view everything. There is the inside looking out and the outside looking in.
It's our inability to Step away from the side of that line which we've planted our feet upon that creates the borders to our soul.
So when I looked up, it was clear. The things that mattered to me, not the physical things but more, the meta-physical goings on of what I imagine 'soul' to be, were standing at attention demanding to be acknowledged.
Being Ok
It's really what it's all about isn't it? It's about being OK, at the end of the day.
Knowing what makes us Ok is a bit of an art form I would say. And I'd say this because of all those books out there you can buy that attempt to teach you the things you need to learn just so you can simply be ....OK. "The Secret" and "A New Earth" are prime best selling examples in book form, and "What The Bleep Do We Know" give you a fine visual.
I'd like to think that the real message in the Matrix trilogy hits the nail on the head firmly and squarely.... Don't think you can, know you can.
So why don't we "know we can"? Wouldn't life just roll by a little easier if we could all just get this through our thick skulls?
We're a complicated price of work inside this skin we surround ourselves in....called "Human"
Action
So what the hell am I on about you might ask? Where on earth am I headed with this?
I think my brain started to conjure up these notions as I was creating the short speech I wrote for the Pride festival. I felt like I had something to say.... A lot to say.. A mother-load of stuff to say.
We are just all people. When you get past it all.... All the "stuff" ....We are all just "People".
What motivates the good, bad, or ugly we are all capable of being at any given point in our lives.... Is just that simple thing we call 'Being Human".
I believe that within us all we have the power to 'Know We Can" and that the books we choose to purchase, rent, or borrow, simply validate what we already know we know, which is why we love them and why we keep purchasing, renting, or borrowing them. The concepts in these books are familiar....Not a new thought... This I know.... But obviously a concept we as a species CAN NOT GRASP, because people make their livings writing these books that put different spins on the same basic bottom line concept over and over and over again.
I can look back at moments in my life where I most certainly know right at this moment.... That I KNEW at that moment. I know I knew because growth happened. I'm very proud to say that I'm not the same person today that I was 20 or 30 years ago. I've made more mistakes in my life than my fair share.... I'm pretty sure of this.
Keeping a Record
Funny, as I wrote that last line a very strong image popped into my minds eye... When my children were growing up we'd measure their height on a wall in their bedroom every 6 months or so.... We've all either done it or seen it in a movie. It creates a fine visual to where our child was yesterday or the year before.... And who they're "becoming" in a physical sense. We keep a "record".
If only your "soul" record was as easy.
This isn't a note containing any "answers". This isn't a note that can unlock any key. This is me up at 4:07 in the morning writing about what's going on on my head because I've got so much on my mind that I really needed to upload some of it to a word doc.
Some day.... When I need to upload again, this will be my record. And at the very least I can look back at all of the things I've written over the years and come to my own conclusions regarding who I am as a human being, instead of who I think the outside looking in might think think I am. And by "Outside" I only mean everything that isn't contained by the walls of my own skin.... Because at the end of the day it is who I think I am that is the governor to who i'll be tomorrow
What I ask is that you treat yourselves a little kinder.... A little gentler....We've all worked hard for this simple thing, This simple concept that can be the bridge to the future or the ocean that keeps you stranded on your island.
In Peace Toni
It's our inability to Step away from the side of that line which we've planted our feet upon that creates the borders to our soul.
So when I looked up, it was clear. The things that mattered to me, not the physical things but more, the meta-physical goings on of what I imagine 'soul' to be, were standing at attention demanding to be acknowledged.
Being Ok
It's really what it's all about isn't it? It's about being OK, at the end of the day.
Knowing what makes us Ok is a bit of an art form I would say. And I'd say this because of all those books out there you can buy that attempt to teach you the things you need to learn just so you can simply be ....OK. "The Secret" and "A New Earth" are prime best selling examples in book form, and "What The Bleep Do We Know" give you a fine visual.
I'd like to think that the real message in the Matrix trilogy hits the nail on the head firmly and squarely.... Don't think you can, know you can.
So why don't we "know we can"? Wouldn't life just roll by a little easier if we could all just get this through our thick skulls?
We're a complicated price of work inside this skin we surround ourselves in....called "Human"
Action
So what the hell am I on about you might ask? Where on earth am I headed with this?
I think my brain started to conjure up these notions as I was creating the short speech I wrote for the Pride festival. I felt like I had something to say.... A lot to say.. A mother-load of stuff to say.
We are just all people. When you get past it all.... All the "stuff" ....We are all just "People".
What motivates the good, bad, or ugly we are all capable of being at any given point in our lives.... Is just that simple thing we call 'Being Human".
I believe that within us all we have the power to 'Know We Can" and that the books we choose to purchase, rent, or borrow, simply validate what we already know we know, which is why we love them and why we keep purchasing, renting, or borrowing them. The concepts in these books are familiar....Not a new thought... This I know.... But obviously a concept we as a species CAN NOT GRASP, because people make their livings writing these books that put different spins on the same basic bottom line concept over and over and over again.
I can look back at moments in my life where I most certainly know right at this moment.... That I KNEW at that moment. I know I knew because growth happened. I'm very proud to say that I'm not the same person today that I was 20 or 30 years ago. I've made more mistakes in my life than my fair share.... I'm pretty sure of this.
Keeping a Record
Funny, as I wrote that last line a very strong image popped into my minds eye... When my children were growing up we'd measure their height on a wall in their bedroom every 6 months or so.... We've all either done it or seen it in a movie. It creates a fine visual to where our child was yesterday or the year before.... And who they're "becoming" in a physical sense. We keep a "record".
If only your "soul" record was as easy.
This isn't a note containing any "answers". This isn't a note that can unlock any key. This is me up at 4:07 in the morning writing about what's going on on my head because I've got so much on my mind that I really needed to upload some of it to a word doc.
Some day.... When I need to upload again, this will be my record. And at the very least I can look back at all of the things I've written over the years and come to my own conclusions regarding who I am as a human being, instead of who I think the outside looking in might think think I am. And by "Outside" I only mean everything that isn't contained by the walls of my own skin.... Because at the end of the day it is who I think I am that is the governor to who i'll be tomorrow
What I ask is that you treat yourselves a little kinder.... A little gentler....We've all worked hard for this simple thing, This simple concept that can be the bridge to the future or the ocean that keeps you stranded on your island.
In Peace Toni
blessed
accomplished