Post by Crypt on Oct 28, 2013 0:06:32 GMT -5
This post is kind of a reference to uzi9mmauto's post ( New and Better Ideas for Map Making
Oct 25, 2013 ) when I read it, the first thing that came to my mind was how it can also be used as a road map to life, aside from it other added value to map making as a whole.
Well I read it a couple more times and a couple more times after that, I started going into deep thinking mode and how what was said applied to a particular portion of my life in my younger years. Long story short, I was a runaway at the age of 12 and lived on the streets till I was 17. It was at this time an opportunity was presented to me which would get me off the streets and give me a "normal" way of living. So I took it and stayed with it for 13 years until I had had my fill of it and then I moved on. Anyhow back to what I was saying, after rereading the the post a few times I started smiling about things from my past and how my life has been one grand adventure after another. After logging off I started to do some thinking and then I stated writing, something I call word spinning/mixing, like a dj with music but I do it with words.
When I was done, I wasn't sure if others would find it applicable to themselves or not so I have decided to post it here in the yak room and if you find some meaning it for yourself, cool! If not, maybe you might know someone else it may apply to, ..anyway here it is.
I call it, The Map Maker :
History will remember me and I will not have to worry about it being kind. I will define myself, I will write my own praises and no one will tell me what I can and cannot be. Defeat, retreat these are not in my words I do not understand those definitions. Belief will change my world and it will carry me through any battle. No matter how bad things go I will never go home, not without giving everything I've got.
Let me tell you something you already know, the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. Its a very mean and nasty place, I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. Ain't nobody gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain't how hard your hit, its about how hard you can get hit, how much you can take and keep moving forward.
Thats how the journey is done, cause if your willing to go through all the battles to get to where you want to get, whose got the right to stop you. Its your right to listen to your gut, be what you wanna be an do what you wanna do, nobody has the right to tell you no.
If you know what your worth then go out and get what your worth but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not point fingers because your not where you want to be because of him or her or anybody, your better then that.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you. Dare to be great, dare to be powerful beyond measure. Train your mind and your heart, they will carry when your limbs are too weak an your body will follow. We are all meant to shine, its not just in some of us its in everyone of us and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others the right to do the same, ..when that day comes and you ask yourself, "Who am I?"...you can stand there on the other side of that precipice look back and smile because you will have found your answer.
Thats when your real journey will begin, everything up until that moment is just training, ...remember the planet is big but the universe is bigger and when you change your perception of the universe with new knowledge, you have essentially changed the universe itself.
So, doooo whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to act on your authentic vision. Make your life mean something that means something to you, Remember, there are no shortcuts to any place worth going and nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood, we are made to persist that's how we find out who we are, ...Self-trust is the first secret to success the rest is up to you.
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Oct 25, 2013 ) when I read it, the first thing that came to my mind was how it can also be used as a road map to life, aside from it other added value to map making as a whole.
Well I read it a couple more times and a couple more times after that, I started going into deep thinking mode and how what was said applied to a particular portion of my life in my younger years. Long story short, I was a runaway at the age of 12 and lived on the streets till I was 17. It was at this time an opportunity was presented to me which would get me off the streets and give me a "normal" way of living. So I took it and stayed with it for 13 years until I had had my fill of it and then I moved on. Anyhow back to what I was saying, after rereading the the post a few times I started smiling about things from my past and how my life has been one grand adventure after another. After logging off I started to do some thinking and then I stated writing, something I call word spinning/mixing, like a dj with music but I do it with words.
When I was done, I wasn't sure if others would find it applicable to themselves or not so I have decided to post it here in the yak room and if you find some meaning it for yourself, cool! If not, maybe you might know someone else it may apply to, ..anyway here it is.
I call it, The Map Maker :
History will remember me and I will not have to worry about it being kind. I will define myself, I will write my own praises and no one will tell me what I can and cannot be. Defeat, retreat these are not in my words I do not understand those definitions. Belief will change my world and it will carry me through any battle. No matter how bad things go I will never go home, not without giving everything I've got.
Let me tell you something you already know, the world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. Its a very mean and nasty place, I don't care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. Ain't nobody gonna hit as hard as life, but it ain't how hard your hit, its about how hard you can get hit, how much you can take and keep moving forward.
Thats how the journey is done, cause if your willing to go through all the battles to get to where you want to get, whose got the right to stop you. Its your right to listen to your gut, be what you wanna be an do what you wanna do, nobody has the right to tell you no.
If you know what your worth then go out and get what your worth but you gotta be willing to take the hits and not point fingers because your not where you want to be because of him or her or anybody, your better then that.
There is nothing enlightening about shrinking so that other people don't feel insecure around you. Dare to be great, dare to be powerful beyond measure. Train your mind and your heart, they will carry when your limbs are too weak an your body will follow. We are all meant to shine, its not just in some of us its in everyone of us and as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others the right to do the same, ..when that day comes and you ask yourself, "Who am I?"...you can stand there on the other side of that precipice look back and smile because you will have found your answer.
Thats when your real journey will begin, everything up until that moment is just training, ...remember the planet is big but the universe is bigger and when you change your perception of the universe with new knowledge, you have essentially changed the universe itself.
So, doooo whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to act on your authentic vision. Make your life mean something that means something to you, Remember, there are no shortcuts to any place worth going and nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood, we are made to persist that's how we find out who we are, ...Self-trust is the first secret to success the rest is up to you.
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