In my readings today I was made to ask myself the question of how do I see my life. I feel that throughout my life I have been consistent in the way I have perceived it. I grew up hearing many different views on how life was. The older people in family view life as being “hard”. To them your always a victim of the things happeing around you. I’ve realized that mindset can actually be true if you believe in it enough. What happens is when you view yourself as the victim and never having control of your surroundings, you actually do become a victim of life by your own doing. You do very little to change outcomes and assert your will. That lack of optimism keeps you in a state of submission. You submit to all that happens, constantly blaming life.
Some may view life as a dance, with twists, turns, highs and lows. I think whatever metaphor you use to view life is fine as long as it contains hope. The older I get I change my views on life. When I was younger I didn’t think much about life to be honest. I thought about the day to day operation and what consisted of living, but never a worldly spectrum. I always felt that we are had destined to do something but never gave much thought on how the discovery of what that was took place. Everyday we awake is an opportunity to come closer to the manifestation of that destiny by learning and growing from the day before. In what a friend once perceived as a head to head competition in sports, I said to him “Im not trying to be better than you, but a better me from yesterday”.
There is no one way to view life. There are many. Take note of the journey. Approach everyday with greater insight than the previous. Strive to achieve. Trust in yourself and your faith. Knowing that the possibilities are endless is very important. Whether you make the best of a bad situation or the best of a good situation..life is what you can make it from whatever situation. Life has many trials and tribulations that test you. These test are there to sharpen your sword of character. Change your view on the world as you know it, and change your life, the world will surely show it. ( I didn’t mean for that to rhyme lol)
I’d like to know how do you see your life? What are the metaphors you use to describe it and how does that shape the way you carry on living.
Grand Hustle,
Nick Brown
@NickBrownOnline
