Realizing Your Potential-Bound in your own Mental Shackles Part 1 Share

We have to reevaluate what matters people. We have to make the most of our lives....

To myself and the masses of bad decision makers,

When will the education profit you? When will you stop deceiving yourself and believing that the path you walk, the thoughts you think, the choices you continue to make upon the basis of your own severely limited thought processes are anything close to your potential, your greatest position in life? When will you cease with the participation in mediocre, otherwise pointless endeavors and begin to transform yourself into a model of productivity? When will you seek peace in the correct places and stop with the knock-off appearances of "happy", "content" and perfectly okay with putting on the facade of well being? Enough with the games, man, when are you going to decide to win? When will your dedicate yourself to reality, truth and authentic happiness?

It's not as if you don't understand your errors in judgment. It's not as if you are ignorant to the negativity and poison you've continued to welcome into your life--all for the fleeting passion of the moment, the emotional and mental high that comes from living as if you are oblivious to right and wrong. Who are you fooling? You aren't even fooling yourself and to be truthful, that in itself is amazing considering you've up to this point never given anyone reason to believe you are capable of discerning concepts as simple as consequences, as the "long run"....As your future?

More specifically, you focus your energies on dead pursuits. What I mean is you invest your precious ability into fits of pleasure, for the wrong types of attention and company, in essentially creating a false sense of security. It angers me to no end!

At moments you show glimmers of hope, small signs of the power you hold within to change the world, to change your life and way of thinking in order to have the greatest influence you can have--that of adding positive energy to this place.

You've chosen to be uninterested in cultivating habits and beliefs, behaviors and efforts aimed at shaping you into a wholesome individual and giving your life the purpose you've sought for so long.


Why? Where are you going with the mayhem, the unhealthy lifestyle and this twisted thinking that has got you believing more in the people who hurt you and the indulgences of a vagabond than the prospect of a God who can and has restored your soul from pieces? Do you not remember where you were just a short time ago? Recognize that you are lucky to even have the opportunities you have because you haven't made God or fortune's job easier with your foolish actions and decisions.

Stop wasting away with thoughts of what you could do, what you feel you don't have the discipline to do or silly ideas of believing this existence you have now is all there is to life.There is so much more and you know it!! I don't need to show you a slideshow of your future if you correct your philosophies! You fully understand what's at stake here!! Think of what the next 50 or 60 years of your life could be or more seriously, are you going to ignore what may be the fate of your soul after you leave this plain of existence? Do you really want to take that risk? Eternity?

If for nothing else, reevaluate your current state of mind for the sake of your inner peace. How long do you want to swim in sin, in boredom, in the relative predictability of lust, sloth and being dare I say, average? What is that? Nothing is what is! Nothing! you're worth so much more!

If even for your own pride, do something! I can't watch you rot! I can't be satisfied with settling! Your family, your peers, those rich and poor, famed, esteemed or hated cannot be your measuring stick for success. Measure yourself against the belief that you are capable of nothing less than the best, the most that life and love have to offer you. Pray that a change is made in your heart and that you will finally commit to taking the road less traveled.

I promise the results will amaze you.

Holding on to Pride, Clinging on to Death

Holding onto Pride, Clinging onto Death

I must be honest. It is exceptionally difficult to maintain sanity in this world. We are expected to love and treat everyone with some measure of kindness-- to succeed in the midst of endless distraction, varying mental states, and a twisted system of existence predicated on social constructs drenched in contradiction. Some of us are held to religious beliefs and goals that make it dangerous to follow your emotional, some may even argue logical, instincts for fear of eternal damnation ( I'm talking about killing yourself)...All in all, this makes for a very angry and confused population. You may not feel the world is this bad, this heinous, but these issues do exist...for each and every one of us.

I never was a happy person, but after a couple years of dealing with some really iffy situations, I became fed up with the universe. I didn't like it but it was the only way I knew then to deal with my circumstances--by shutting people off. In a place full of unreliable, unmotivated, dirty, cheating, lying and dishonest individuals, I found maybe a handful of people who looked out for my well being. I appreciated them, but also scorned the fact that I needed them to pull through my situation. It's a feeling unlike any pain I've ever endured. I valued independence more than life itself. My pride was the only thing keeping me alive. For my sake, I hoped the people who screwed me didn't live to see my success, because I most certainly would never, EVER, forget. I was engulfed in a vengeful rage, an unwavering determination to triumph that kept me from releasing all that hate in one fit of crushing violence. I knew the satisfaction from such a thing would be great for that moment, but would inevitably be followed by self pity and ultimately death. So I was faced with a decision to either be ruled by pride and sentenced to death, or find some other means of peace.

In light of that, I pondered how I might stop being ruled by pride. The first thing I realized was pride was the most inefficient means of overcoming whatever issues I had in life. If I couldn't accept help, then I'd try to do everything on my own and that's just ignorant. For a while I thought independence meant being doing everything alone, but independence, as I see it now, is maintaining the ability to make decisions for yourself. Letting those decisions be ruled by anger and emotions was not independence at all. In fact I was more bound then than ever. Understanding that was my first step towards becoming a realist. I decided that the circumstances around me were only the foundations of a blueprint for effective solutions. Now I take everything for what it is and deal with it accordingly, doing my best to maintain a level head.

But I still had to deal with my views on people. This lead me to the second thing I realized-- Some forms of pride are good. Popular culture seems to have embraced this "swag" concept, but I'm not talking about it in a superficial sense. For me, swag is your individual bottom line. It's the part of your personality that operates constant and independent of any and all outside influences. It's very important because the people whom you get along with without compromising your fundamental personality traits, are the people who vibe with you the best. This also saves you a lot of trouble in the romantic realm. The trick is finding your "swag"--but that's another discussion for another day. Lately I've realized not a lot of people are truly comfortable with who they are as individuals. That's why other people's being inconsiderate has such a damaging effect on them.

I'll discuss more of these concepts in later posts. but in the meantime, BE REAL WITH YOURSELF IF NO ONE ELSE.