In a world where we are so driven by what we can get from it, the idea that by just answering with a simple “yes” has just recently come into my foresight. Yes is in a word, brilliant. Brilliant in the sense with a simple yes, can open you up to a whole world that you may have never known to exist.
Yes to a new restaurant, a new special, a new person, a new look, and maybe a new you. I realize that it’s difficult to step out of ones comfort zone, the personal bubble world in rose colored glasses I’m a clear case and point, but when one approaches the world with eyes wide open to Yes the world may surprise you.
Clearly by changing to a world of “yes” can’t be all bad, can it? I’m looking at it as a challenge. Who knows maybe it could be the start of something new.
I think that if you really want something that maybe the world of yes might be the greatest asset, a catalyst if you will.
It reminds me of this documentary I saw a couple years ago, Man on Wire. It was about the man who planned, plotted, and finally walked a tight rope across the WTC Buildings. The film was really good, I wish I wasn’t so tired, and that it would have been more commercially received, but all in all, it was definitely an inspiration.
I mean if you really think about the comparison of life and a tight rope; you either walk it confidently and take the risk falling in failure; you can fear the ledge and stand on solid ground never taking the chance, or walk the rope fearlessly with no regrets facing and completing it victoriously.
Oftentimes, I don’t know what to do anymore… it’s as if when I think things are figured out and I’m soaring on cloud 9 then something happens and I find myself trying to dig out of a grave [figuratively]. Granted, my life could be worse, of course it could always be better. #Just saying. Anyways, I’m educated, I have decent employment, a roof over my head [for the time being], and [dis]functional friends and family whom I cherish. However, I often wonder if I had the opportunity to change that, would I?
Just walking out the door is a journey of which I intend to make every step count. I am trying to be the person that the world has inspired to make the changes necessary for each tomorrow. It makes more sense in my head.
As with most people who’ve graduated from college; I find myself straddling the line of young adult and adult. Financially speaking, more often than not, I struggle to make ends meet. Living paycheck to paycheck is not what I had intended to call a living. I had envisioned, that by now, I would be living on my own making a name for myself inspiring the world to make change. It is difficult, however I struggle to survive in order to be a building block for others who may need me one day.
I believe in myself, I believe that by putting my mind to the positive aspects of my abilities, that by striving for greatness I can and will achieve greatness. GIVING UP is NOT and option, it’s one I try to avoid at all cost.
Though I tend to find simplicity and hardships a building block to positive strength of character, is the challenge worth it when your content? I have slowly come to accept that my daily life will be as such— A balancing act of dreams and contentment that is of course until I truly open myself up to “Yes, Please.” and when that day comes…
be Loved.