Life, is an interesting thing, you live, you learn and you grow.....or perhaps not. The thing about life, is it is filled with so many variables. A simple thing as a baby crying, or the smell of a man's sweat.... or even a simple WORD. A word or a phase can pull you back to a memory without your permission to something or some where good bad or indifferent it pulls you...
You don't go of your own fluition you go because you have been pulled in a direction. It may not be the direction you want to go...or hell even need to go but on a journey you are...
I have been in NYC now 10 years, I can not see me living anywhere else but here, the people I have met that I ACTUALLY give a damn about and even the ones that are now just acquaintances my experience here has been that pulling, in one direction or another.
Then this other thing happens, called LIFE'S REALITY and in that reality there is this thing called being present. You can not be present if you are being pulled. You can not live life and all the things that you "wish, hope and desire" will not come to you if you are stuck in what was when". We all must grow. My journey has been about just that growth. I have cried, come close to death, wanted to die, laughed, almost peed on myself from random acts of comedy, I have learned to love those who do not love me [cause they need it a little more], I have learned to forgive my brother 77 times over, I have looked at the rafter in my eye so to speak. Been hug by children, touched by the hands of elders, read too and encouraged. All the while being present.
Today I forgive, myself for staying in the shadows, for not picking myself up and dusting myself off again...Today I forgive all those who have trespassed against me. I forgive all those who have waited for me to fail. I forgive all those who have lied to themselves to lie to me. I forgive all those who are not connected to themselves: FOR TO THINE OWN SELF ONE NEEDS TO BE TRUE....
This did not come easy. I work at me. Tonight my lovely god mommy said something to me that just made me love her even more but made me think...as I got pulled in another direction.... nine words...HA! So fitting " life does get better if you let it"...Today I challenge you to let life get better for you....
Some tips:
1. When you met someone, they show you who they are in the first 45 second
2. When shit is GOOD it is SO DAMN SUNDAY MORNING GOOD
3. Never compromise your morals to compromise someone else's insanity
4. Trust your instincts that have kept you alive this far.
5. If you ask a direct question and get deflective answers that person is a master manipulator and toxic.
6. The only truth is the whole truth and nothing but that truth. Lets be clear not your idea of it either. Just the facts. Example: The spilled milk is on the floor
7. Love will make you do things that you know is wrong to your spiritual EVERYTHING
8. Don't argue back and fourth with anyone there is NOTHING GOOD TO COME OF IT
9. Don't give up there is a blessing JUST around the corner.
10. [insert your words here]
Today I challenge all 217 of you although only about 45 of you are reading.. I challenge you to let life get better, to heal through LOVE, to forgive through LOVE. Today I challenge you to "just try one more time"....
I say this but you know I do not challenge you to do anything I have not done, am doing or will do....remember to be explicitly honest with SELF in this process.
Today I challenge you to OPEN YOURSELF UP TO THE POSITIVE VIBRATION OF THE WORLD and no matter your denomination or not I challenge you to give your fear, hurts, pain, over to your higher power and open up to love....
Maferefun Sango....LOVE really is the answer.....
Love you all
Reflections Eternal
NYC Edition
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