Consider What You Have



Consider What You Have

And again it's on! I hope everyone is thankful to be alive and well, wherever you are--certainly aware of the many people that were not able to be as fortunate. I most definitely want to go ahead and acknowledge the Oklahoma disaster--my heart, without a doubt, goes out to the many families there that are having to undergo that devastating situation. It's just so easy to take little things for granted, having that subconscious certainty that those things will always be available to us.

Me? I often neglect to pause and seriously sacrifice a little time to carefully consider the many blessings I already have. However (I don't know if this is something that any of you do), I always have been able to make time to express--whether internally or externally--my degree of regret for things I've done, complain about situations not going my way, and worry about acquiring things I don't have. It's just so terribly easy to be this way!

But what I have found is how wonderfully brilliant it is to actually invest just a little bit of time to contemplate how fortunate we are to be able to breathe. Or how much of a blessing it is to be able to eat a good, hot meal. It's such awesome therapy!

I challenge any of you that are like me, often neglecting to meditate on the "glass half full" perspective of your lives, to consider how favored you are to be able to go to sleep at night and wake up in the morning. I challenge any of you to do this right after you've just beaten yourself up for being almost thirty-one years old with no meaningful accomplishments (according to society's standards). Do this right after sitting in one spot for roughly nine hours trying to initiate a personal project, only to end up not even completing one of the first steps that could very well be recognized as one of the most simple steps in the process. Do it right after feeling like you are the most incompetent failure on Earth, and that everyone in the whole entire world can do everything better than you--yeah...do it then. I promise you all, that the feeling you get as you deeply consider little children starving and badly in need of healthcare all over the world--as well as the citizens of Oklahoma--will only be able to described as divine.

Yo, real quick for Hip-Hop: Most of y'all, I'm sure, have already heard it on YouTube or wherever, but that Open Letter remix? Wyclef's 2nd verse? I'm telling all of you--let this be known explicitly as an ETURNAL EXPRESSION...DO-NOT-SLEEP! It's the resurrection of the "Refugee Camp" pioneer! One time for Jigga Jay-Z for keepin' it "Evolutionary", as we all should, and I'm gone!

P.E.A.C.E.