Passion (Regina Belle album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Be Here FIRST,
Don’t you dare arrive late,
Don’t you fool around not realize it’s fate,
That has you standing here,
Boldly ready to do what others won’t,
Courageously trying to try want wasn’t,
Believing that if there is a leader, others will follow,
Not choosing to give up when times get hard,
Creating a defense so hard to block others don’t their guards,
For you chose to attack,
You chose to live,
You chose to be present,
You chose to be you,
Be FIRST at being you,
Be there,
Be here.
BE FIRST for you.
How do you feel today? Are you here? Are you first?
English: Toni Morrison, Miami Book Fair International, 1986 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
I have at a time hated books. I hated to read. It wasn’t to say I wasn’t interesting to read, it was just at that time I felt most of the content were typical. I felt the same story and angles were being used. Now I feel the same way about films. I still love film, just feel a lack of storyline is being used to be different. I will get back to film another post, but books were my enemy. Have you ever felt that way before?
In high school when I discovered Shakespeare, Toni Morrison and Maya Angelou is when it hit me, I love books. I hate to have to go 0-500 pages of reading but I loved books. I just hated reading them in school just to pass a test.
What intrigue me the most were the authors and their story. I used to wonder what the author must have been thinking to capture an emotion and to keep you engaged within a story. Why they choose a certain plot or how thought of their characters names. So based off of those curiosities and the lack or void of certain storytelling, I wanted to be a published author. I didn’t know how and when, but I knew before the end of my life (I later adapted to the fame term: Bucket List), I would like it noted and documented that I was a published author.
Streamline about 10 plus years later, I figured out my angle and stories I wanted to write and tell, it’s just the execution of it I was missing. It was my goal to achieve this “Published Author” milestone in 2012, but sadly I failed at that, based on timing and a lot of pressure with other goals and milestones I wanted, but finally can say with certainty that 2013 will be the year I achieve a dream.
Who are you favorite authors? Do you like to read? Do you own a digital e-reader?
Why people believe weird things, by Michael Shermer. (Photo credit: Xosé Castro)
Everyday someone experience something or a certain situation and think it’s the craziest thing they have seen, but truth is weirder things had happened. I live in the real world in which impossible is possible, it’s just not always seen by everyone.
Love, hate, death, poverty, exile, and all sort more exist and in many different forms, so what is really left? There is always more variations to go around, so if something bad has happened to you, though it may heart-felt or close to the heart, remember that weirder things had happened before.
What do you think? Is there anything that is too far-fetched that has happened?
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