Life · Postaday2012 · Project365

No Validation: I Just Want To Be FREE

Cover of "My Life"
Cover of My Life

I live life with crazy action pack sequences synced into a body of multiple characters that work hard all day everyday, and still look at life with a positive outlook.  I don’t need others to verify or validate what it is I do, the lack of sleep, how I prioritize my approach on life and/or getting things done, because I am the one doing them, not them.  I been in a confined area locked from opportunity half of my life (being too young, being dependent on others), and once I saw that to break free I had to be the true me and have everything comes from me, the quicker I learned and became a better me.

I know I have loved ones, family, friends, special people in my life that cares and look out for my best interests, but I feel they have not walked in my shoes as yet or really truly understand why I do things a certain way.  It’s about the fulfillment of life and breathing the air out of your lungs and feeling in control of how you are perceived.  They haven’t seen what I have seen or step past their limits to break new grounds or being more open minded, instead of settling and saying it’s ok, we can pass on them, or sit around and wait for a change to come.  It took up to college and lots of reading of articles (books are so darn long for my fast paced lifestyle to read), and conditioning myself from psychology to logic to philosophy that created my new form of thinking.  Do I want to create and achieve, or do I want to wait and collect?  I don’t believe in hand outs and waiting to be seen being me if I know what I am doing it actually  how I feel and that I am aware of the consequences.  I am pro-active and live a realist life, that I know my limits based on me breaking them to constantly know how much more I can do.

I am aware or my surroundings, and in depth viewpoint to the world from many directions and perspectives.  For example, the lack of sleep will cause your body to shut down, or not get to grow to a certain amount, and even worse, or as my mother said it’s going to make you look too old before your time.  Know so I willing continued on my path to be someone in the world.  I want to live, feel, become more, to myself and others.  It’s more of a giving notion by going to give and receive.  So maybe one day, someone will ask, how did you accomplish this, what processes and transformation did you have to go through to reach a certain level.

I tend read and watch it being said in books, articles, and movies that we don’t use the full potential of our brain or we simply can’t or have the potential to.  So I would ask who are setting these rules and these standards on what we can’t do?  I hate the word/phase “I Can’t“, I usually asked the person who says so: “Who is stopping you? Have you even tried?  How many times have you tried? What were the results of each encounter, gain or failure or always the same results?”  Living life is like an experiment on what works and what doesn’t, and each formula or method to result to an answer is not always the same.  We tend to not challenge ourselves in our normal lifestyle to see how we can develop or stretch our muscles and means of accomplishments.  So I ask, if someone is to acquire greatness, he/she cannot be simple, he/she cannot fear failure, he/she won’t be the same as others. It’s just a simple rule in life, that all great things in life we all can’t acquire because we all don’t want it as bad and suffer to reach the goal, but just wants the benefits.

“If it was that easy for everyone to be great, we would all be the same, achieve the same things, and in realization we would all be the norm once again, because there would be no one better or doing something different.”

If I were to die tomorrow, I would have known I lived an unique life, I would have reached a higher level and challenged myself endlessly to see what I did on my own and how I have developed myself and dedicated a lifestyle to achieve and believe in me and be free, and with that, I need no validation, I am me, so I ask who are you?

Thanks for reading
Richardo

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Postaday2012 · Project365

The Pressure To Be Perfect: Anger

Energy and Climate week. Speaker: Richardo Lag...
Energy and Climate week. Speaker: Richardo Lagos, UN Special Envoy on Climate Change. (Photo credit: Vattenfall)

As of late I have been very angry.  I have been brutally angry with many things circulating in my life.  Happily I can say it’s not towards others but myself and my goals.  I haven’t been at all happy with direction I have found myself going.  I think the main reason for my down feelings and morals is heavily due to me been sick.  I have been sick for the past week or so and it has really took a toll on me and caused me to do some heavy reflection on my progress into my career and legacy.

I know very well I can’t by-will speed up success, but I do know I could be more effective with my time and works to produce the best product I can.  I really haven’t doing do as yet.  I have quite an epic schedule of projects and measurable accomplishments I want to get done in 2012, and it takes quite a great deal of time, efforts and finesse in which is to get them done, pretty much perfection of self or very little room for error.

My blog and other avenues of tools I use primarily for experimental reasons.  I know what works and what doesn’t and could refer to myself as an expert in a few fields, but in others I still trying to build a solid structure in and it is quite a challenge trying to just break into.  Managing other aspects of my life is feeling like a burden to my creative nature and its very unhealthy.  I have noticed a trend that I have following, in which not getting the a grip and working on my major goals primarily than my micro goals for the micro goals are easier and I know I can do it.

I am not challenging myself enough like I use to, to be able to break the hard shell of new experiences and new grounds of work.  I have the mind-set and mentally to want to do it, but the body is not able to follow through with the actions via me being sick and its driving me insane and causing me to slack off on other commitments I have.

I know I can’t be perfect, but I working hard to be so, if not be close to it for my standards.

 TO BE CONTINUED

 PS: sorry if it sounds a bit a ramble, I guess I was rambling…I just needed to write and get it off my chest.

– Richardo

Life · Love · Postaday2012 · Project365

My Passion For Love, and Tickle Your Funny Bone

Comedy Show
Comedy Show (Photo credit: edenpictures)

Growing up in Jamaica I have always wanted to achieve something big and major, and at the same time make people happy and feel loved at all times.  I came to find out that my best attributes were towards poetry and comedy and how I saw life through my eyes.  For the ladies, its poetry for they needed to be loved, someone to speak gently and to their soul, in which I always knew how to do by giving compliments and seeing what struggles they went through as I had more female friends then males.  As for the male, comedy was the life of the party, the person who can entertain even the toughest guy on the block had leverage over many as you can’t be serious every day, the comedic guy could never be seen a threat to you status among everyone else.

This was my philosophy as a young guy coming up in the world.  Studying my surroundings, stay invisible as possible to your enemies, and not really let anyone know your my capabilities so they won’t get to exploit them in any way.  So I was always the middle guy in every situation, for I was always seen as the nice blend of everything you like and never over stepping anyone’s boundaries.

Through the back pages of my notebook, I would write comedic verses, in which I found as entertainment to give myself giggles as I displayed them to friends who usually found me weird, because they always was like, how come a smart guy this like me, can be so silly.  Those days in Grades 2 to 5 were classic as I shined among my friends, as I was always ready to try to learn and if I couldn’t do what others do, I would like to study and observe, because I knew one day I will test it out and see where I stand among the crowd.  For the ladies, going of basis of what my mother always said to me, ask before you do anything, I always questioned the life out of every single thing I came in encounter with even if I knew the answer, I was always ready to learn a new perspective in which people didn’t know they unwillingly gave to me by me being so innocent and friendly, I gained a great deal of knowledge about people and their behaviors.  I guess is why I have a great deal of respect for psychology in my later high school and college years as I was quick to adapt to the analytical way of thinking when learning others.

My comedy and poetry goes hand in hand to this day as it did in high school and college, in which led me into the hearts of many, who was just looking for someone who understands and can tickle their funny bone naturally without lies, or seeking other impolite advancements.  I am guy that can write you a simply note and make your world so exciting because of my cleverness, charming ways, how spontaneous my words were delivered in which were effortless for they were always pure thoughts to match the heart.  I became a romantic in this world, having love for the passion of love in which is the true way to someone’s heart, and using humor as desert as well because it is what the soul craves.

After all my gibberish and back stories, I simply just love the sound and actions of romance and poetry, and being entertaining with my comedy performances and jabs.  This is the stage many people don’t usually see except for the lucky ones in my life, but now I am ready to put it on display to the world, and hopefully win their hearts and eyes and ears, to see my entertain as well as smooth their minds with poetry.

What are your passions in life?  That are your best talents?  If you could pick or choose some features you would like to be yours what would they be?

Thanks for reading
Richardo