Know Thyself
Know Thyself
Do you feel mature and strong enough to surrender your life to someone who is not interested in you? If so then you need to ask yourself, “What in the hell is wrong with me?” because your response would be incomprehensible. It’s like giving a five year old child keys to a car to drive herself to kindergarten. This would not make a damn bit of sense even if she had the motor skills to put the key in the ignition, reach the gas peddle, or close the driver side door. The mere notion that a five year old would have that much access, responsibility, or decision-making power is more than neglect, it’s an ethical travesty.
Unfortunately, in the real world, we make unwise decisions like this often. We put ourselves in situations that are totally unacceptable for children. “I can’t believe her parents would do such a thing,” would be the nice version of declarative statements spewed from the mouths of anyone in their right mind who witnessed a five year old driving.
I am dumbfounded by many adults who correct children’s behavior because “They know better,” then with the next breath, turn off their senses when it comes to their own emotional and physical safety. Why is it so easy for many adults to do right by others and not themselves? Is it nature or nurture? I do not know, but women and men need to wake up and drink some coffee. For those of you who are non-caffeine drinker, find another stimulus to open your eyes and see yourself in this world. Whatever it takes to cleanse the brain from ridiculous notions that marginalize one’s capacity to love thyself without becoming overly selfish, selfless, sensitive, or naïve, do it! You see, nothing is owed to you, but taxes and death. So become an active participant in this world and celebrate life. Depending on your beliefs, you may only have one.
People need to stop allowing folk in their lives that do not look out for their best interests. It is not uncommon for some of us to partner with a knucklehead who cannot meet our expectations, needs, or desires. Settling in hazardous relationships to satisfy parts of our greatness is self-effacing, suicidal, and unbecoming. At some point, you will understand that you can not do better for yourself until you realize that you deserve more from yourself.
Look, I am not in to playing the blame game or faulting victims. Like computers, we can only output information that has been downloaded or uploaded in to our brains. From this place, our conscious stores data like a server ready to respond until it crashes because of a virus. We all know someone who has been that to us or will be if we keep her in our lives. On the other hand, we do not admit to the fact that we are our worst virus (sometimes). And from this place of denial, we self-replicate it into our children, friends, and family.
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