To Be Or Not To Be

I find that most problems we have as individuals; what to do, what not to do, how to go and not to go, where our priorities ought to be, the things that are important to us and those that aren't as important, the order of their importance to us as unique individuals, etc

Considering that in the world we live in today, we find there are so many things wooing our attention and working to pull us in, for participation, membership; just calling our attention, as it were.

The media, business opportunities, ideas and thoughts all flowing rampant, endlessly.

So much so the discerning  wonders, "which one of these, do I follow?"

If you don't know yourself, if you don't stop to take some protracted period of quiet time out to reflect,

On who you really are, what your life purpose really is, where you really are going, 

You WILL be tugged on all sides, going in every direction and not in any direction.

If you don't take the time to ask yourself what you want, where you're going, you will not know where your boundaries are.

Yes we think "outside the box", we shouldn't be limited by anything, BUT by our very own well thought out decisions and choices.

Now, that is positivity.

The negativity lies in us accepting wrong limiting factors.

Thus, there are wrong negative voices that keep us literally buried in nothingness.

But there is that inner empowering voice that communicates to us what our boundaries are per time, that we may fully evolve in who we truly are, we may concretize and deepen our roots so to speak, in order to truly thrive in excellence and in the unmatched beauty of who we truly are.

At best we could be good or average at everything if we sought everything, but never be truly excellent or out of the ordinary at any one thing, or even at the art of being that unique individual identity that is the truest of who we are; at the expense of certain other key things as we lose priority in the maze that we make of our own hands.

"The best things in life are free", they say. Once we can no longer stop to smell and savour the roses every now and then, we've lost the essence of living. Remember humans aren't just about territory and what to eat and drink.

We are of a higher specie and the proof of that is  in the finesse of our seeking; in the things that transcend the lust of the eye.

So, what are those things that may suffer as we chase after this and that"? we ask ourselves, 

"how important are they to us".

Then we scale all things according to their place in our hearts.

To what extent can we afford to be negligent about this and that? At what expense? To the detriment of which and which?

As such, if we gain certain things at the expense of other things that are more important, then that equation isn't balanced; in truth, we lose. 

Instead, we focus more attention to the things that really matter to us after taking the necessary time to make considerations for who we really are, what we're really about, what truly makes us happy, the things that are most important to us,

Then focus more on those things. Anything we do on the side is just a passing fancy, hobby, or just that, a 'by the way' and never can mash up as major, or we risk a collosal disconnect.

How crucial it is to celebrate our uniqueness as indeed therein lies the colour of us all which together beautifies the whole.

Each person's uniqueness is that very quality which they bring to bear in every situation.

There are those areas where as we seek to achieve certain things, when we need to replicate other people's effective time  tested methods for example if I wanted to harvest honey from a bee hive, I know the way to go isn't to poke the hive.

Ten unique individuals approaching this task would most likely do it in a similar, uniform manner rather than uniquely; that would be necessary because we're seeking the same thing with the same tools at our disposal.

But the decision to go after bees, donkeys, monkeys, mules, birds, or else, or even any other unrelated vocation for that matter, would entirely be up to each honest to goodness individual, taking count of their natural likes and dislikes, strenthen and weaknesses, personal interests and intrigues, and more. In which case if we replicate anyone's practise at all, it will be because we from our core, admire their results and seek to replicate that.

And only you can tell what the deepest of your core, IS.

Even at that, there's also a limit to how far each individual can "copy" another, or they lose their uniqueness.

We have a general code of conduct or manual as it were. We also have Laws of the land, rules of engagement for each field here and there.

Our individuality then comes in anywhere between, helping us make the necessary decisions to truly thrive and utterly embrace Happiness.

How about the multi talented? Even the multi talented would have to stream-line their efforts or we become  the infamous "jack of all trade master of none".

At best each talent may come in at different times in our life's journey, to lift us and make way for us for the next level of our be-ing,

Or if we're lucky, we find ourselves a decent career that encompasses most if not all of our talents. 

Otherwise, each given ability can only be for a strategic times in our journeys as we evolve.

Take Jesus the Nazarene for instance;

He could've been anything at all He wanted but even our Jesus took time out to study, meander the temple debating with scribes. Isn't it obvious that He took time out to self assess and come to "know" who He was, and His place in the scheme of things as afore prophecied?

While He sought to know Himself, He "carpentered".

Soon as He was done self assessing, He took on the role for which He had come to know beyond a doubt, that He was to be,

And totally nailed that role.

And here was a man who could've dethroned Herod if he'd wanted to, could've been anything at all He employed His heart to do cos He was wisdom personified. He knew how to access every knowledge and skill He desired. Yet, he chose His own boundaries based on a knowing of who He was as a unique individual in the earth, and His own part in it.

To gracefully, be or not be.