Who are you being today? Are you just being a shadow of the great person you are? Most of society about ninety-five percent are. It's the way you have been taught to be. That's not a bad thing it's just sad. Most people work their 9 to 5 jobs, everyday and they are hard workers, team players who show up every day as expected. The sad reality is that most make a decision to not live their life the way they should. I say should because deep inside everyone is a dream that goes unfulfilled. Someone said the greatest gifts to man can be found in the multiple cemeteries that are every where from coast to coast.
Many decide to play it safe and take their great gift to their grave. I know many who have. We all have a gift that we came here to fulfill. No one is stopping you from living it,but you and the thoughts you have about what your real purpose is. If you were to wake up tomorrow and found that you now had access to an unlimited supply of wealth, no specific amount just an unending amount, would you go to work because you love what you do and now will keep doing it because you have no concern of monetary things and just like expressing joy to others and providing the service you provide? If the answer is anything other than yes then who are you being? It is proven statistically that most people in our society are living from pay check to pay check, it is also proven statically that more people die of a heart attack on Monday morning between 8am and 9am. Why is this? They hate what they do, but are scared to be who they truly are so they pretend to be what their family needs them to be or what their job needs them to be or who they think they are suppose to be, not who they really are.
Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)
We Wear the Mask
WE wear the mask that grins and lies,
It hides our cheeks and shades our eyes,—
This debt we pay to human guile;
With torn and bleeding hearts we smile,
And mouth with myriad subtleties.
Why should the world be over-wise,
In counting all our tears and sighs?
Nay, let them only see us, while
We wear the mask.
We smile, but, O great Christ, our cries
To thee from tortured souls arise.
We sing, but oh the clay is vile
Beneath our feet, and long the mile;
But let the world dream otherwise,
We wear the mask!
The above poem appeared in Dunbar's first professionally published volume, Lyrics of Lowly Life, in 1896 by Dodd, Mead, and Company. It also appeared in the volume Majors and Minors from the previous year.
This is what most live until their death, don't let this be your story. Stop the madness now. If you would not continue to do what you do every day now, if you had access to an unlimited amount of money then you need to stop and think what would you do if you had unlimited dollars, because the truth is until you do that you never will and when you do it because you believe it the Universe will make it so.
I am thankful that Beethoven did not let the fact that he was deaf deter him from continuing to create magnificent music that to this day continues to enrich our lives and those who come after us. How was he able to do what he did, compose music without the aid of his hearing? If you ponder this question and do a little research you will find that it was his gift and he would not be denied living it his entire life. He wrote one of his last works 4 hours before he died and he knew he was dying. That is passion, that is joy, that is living.
To your success,
DS Woodard
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