What would you do if you were given the ability to read minds or even transcribe facial expressions and thoughts into texts, then transferring them to your pc without physically typing them out? Okay, I don’t know what I would do, too, but I’d definitely be a bestselling author. Aight, this is just my way of saying there are a number of things I wish I could do, but I know I can’t sleep and wake up the following morning to see them all done. That’s life. If we could live on wishes, I guess no one will be wasting time on a 9 – 5. By the way, Good things don’t always come to those who wait; they sometimes wait for those who get up and seek them.
Every day has its challenges and demands. Some people decide to make others’ happiness their priority, while others never give up on attempting to ruin their neighbors’ day, and eliminating every chance of redemption. We all want to be thought of as some kind of influence or catalyst to someone’s growth, either for self-centered reasons or for the humble pleasure that accompanies exemplary references.
For me, the past year has been very adventurous, daring, experimental, and quite revealing. The question would perhaps be “What was revealed?” Well, trying to explain it all would be as ridiculous as sitting by the beach, in the dead of the night, and attempting to count every Star in sight. One thing I can exhaustively tell you is I don’t know the half of myself. I’m sure some of you would agree with me that it takes certain unplanned incidents to draw out some traits you never thought existed.
I have contended with ‘Me’ for a while now – What I like, what I want, what I would do to get what I want, and the extent I’m wiling to go to keep what I have or what I think I had.
I try hard to break away from the manmade and self-inflicted cultural idea that there are specific levels of feat that should characterize every phase of one’s life, every age bracket. Though I’m not in absolute denial that there should indeed be a level of achievement one would look back to, every now and then. It would be a sheer waste of time to defend the fact that the world would be a predictively boring place without individuality, challenges, disappointments, failures, trials, errors, and of course, the ‘could-have-beens’ and ‘would-have-beens’.
Spending more time in my own world and with God has given me insight into a wealth of eternal common sense. I’ve read a few books (Very few, I must say), but not a single one has provided such unequivocal guidelines to a fulfilled and peaceful life worth living.
God does NOT, and will NOT reveal everything to us. It is His glory to conceal things. To you and I, there’s some kind of grandeur that comes with unraveling hidden things.
God has placed us on a journey of self-discovery, with a map, a few tools, and instructions as we progress. He also gave us the Will to choose (This is probably the most dicey tool in the hands of any man). No one man knows how God operates within everyone, at every given point in time. Like T.D Jakes said, “God remains the same, but His methods change.” (Paraphrased). But there’s a Villain called ‘Me’, who happens to ‘know it all’ and thinks things are always meant to be perfect.
‘Me’ thinks highly of itself, sees the wrong in everyone, and never accepts any blame. ‘Me’ always has an excuse for everything – why things are the way they are, and what could have been done to avoid every unfortunate situation. ‘Me’ makes too much preparations for tomorrow, that it misses the opportunities of ‘today’. ‘Me’ bottles up its disappointments with a pointed nose and a frown, but ‘Us’? Oh, ‘Us’ calls you out, expresses its displeasure, but later hugs you with a Grin.
‘Me’ says “It’s my way or no way” but ‘Us’ says “Let’s try both ways and stick the one that works.”
As a slave to Fate, ‘Me’ thinks it’s ridiculous to have faith and be optimistic, yet realistic. ‘Me’ Says “but He’s got braces” and ‘US’ replies, “Have you seen your toes, lately?”
“Me’ Says “Look what s/he did to me”, but ‘Us’ Says, “Look what you did to your neighbour.” ‘Me’ says “I don’t like it when she pouts and hang her neck from her shoulder like it’s missing a knot, but ‘Us’ says, “Seriously? Have you seen the look on your face in all your photos?”
If I were to act religiously mysterious, I would say, before God formed His greatest creation (man), He said, “Let US create man in OUR own image and likeness…” Okay, that may not be the best biblical example, but the fact still remains that two heads are better than one…when their motives are selfless.
Before you do anything, put yourself in the shoes of others. How will your actions affect them? Don’t see it as giving them the power to dictate what you do or the pace at which you do them; you’re simply creating room for peace, whilst maintaining your sanity. If you want it to be all about you, be my guest…go create your own earth.
I used to feel good, living for ‘Me’. Now, I feel great…living for ‘Us’.
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