We live in a world of expectancy.
From the start.
When YOU were in YOUR mother’s womb, she was told that she was “expecting”. YOUR entry into this world began as an expectation.
From the second that YOU were “delivered”, YOU have been expected to do something. Every moment since YOU got here, there has been something that was expected of YOU!
Started off as YOU being expected to have all of the adequate and necessary capabilities to function as a healthy baby. Every step, standard, and stereotype since has been monitored and categorized as registry to YOUR identity, validating YOUR participation in the grand scheme of this life. YOU are expected to do, be, go, have, not, exist, according to some measure of system, or society, as planned.
And the vast majority of us do exactly that. Exactly what is expected of us.
We don’t even realize it. We don’t realize that we aren’t doing what we want to do, as much as we do what is planned, expected and allowed of us, to do.
Because we buy into “their” idea of time.
By giving up our time.
Our independence and autonomy is traded for access to their program and system, amid inclusion, into their norms and agenda. In order for their system and society to perform according to the imbalance of fairness or equality or justice, exactly as it was designed, we must surrender our most precious and valuable resource- the time that we have here- to their ideals, their agenda, their corporation, their governance.
That’s not living.
It is a lot of things, but it’s not living. It’s what they sold us. It’s what we buy and what they sell. It’s what keeps them there and us, not there. It’s what distracts us, what defeats us, what destroys us, and ultimately what kills us. It’s what persuades and pauses and poisons us. It’s what weakens us. That’s their strength, a weakened us.
Take YOUR time.
… and live.
I’m saying YOU should stop waiting to live. LIVE. Take YOUR time, back. LIVE. Now.
God gave us no clocks or calendars. YOU don’t have to rush. YOU don’t have to wait. YOU get to live.
Success is what happens when YOU experience the fullness of YOUR life, to the measure of YOUR liking. Not what “they” say that success is. Success is YOU getting to do what is in YOUR heart and mind and reach to DO. Not doing what they’ve suggested or suppressed YOU into believing YOU should do . Success is being YOU. YOUR authentic, aware, unapologetic, actual self.
IT IS NOT YOU BEING OR BECOMING WHO AND WHAT THEY SAY IS WHO YOU CAN BE OR BECOME.
Again, that’s not living.
And YOU need to live.
Like, NOW.
Take YOUR time.
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