Contentment

Contentment is not having what we want, but rather, being happy and satisfied with what we already have.
My whole life was based around material wealth. I was under the impression that to be of value I needed to possess the latest and most expensive items. I was defined by the clothes and shoes I wore, the gadgets I owned, and the number of high profile women I could get. It became an obsession and a battle to maintain this status; "THE GUY WHO HAD IT ALL, MR ALL THAT."
It was all I THOUGHT about/ all I SPOKE about/ all I DID/ all I LIVED for/ Who I WAS/ AND UNLESS I DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT, WHO I WAS TO BECOME.
Everything that other people classified as worthy, I needed to have or to be! It took a very detailed observation of my life to actually see what I was becoming. The following is what I noticed, look in your life and if you notice these things too, its time to work on it.
1. I needed to have all the nice, expensive, and popular designer shoes.
2. I had to have different colored clothes to match every single one of my shoes.
3. I had to always be on my cell phone talking to someone esp a girl.
4. If there was a new version of my cell phone, laptop, game console, sneakers, or clothes, I needed to have it ASAP!!
5. I always had to live up to the hype.
6. Had to do what the BIG BOYS were doing.
7. A majority of all my clothes still had tags on them, made me feel like my worth was increasing.
8. All my friends had to be the POPULAR people.

Being content now meant,
1. Talking to people I wanted to talk to.
2. Wearing only clothes I felt comfortable in and buying only the amount I needed.
3. Balancing my life(will talk about that in a later post).
4. Losing contact with people I was just trying to impress, making time for the people who actually mattered.
5. Learning to be humble, in every setting.
6. Using my stuff till I exhausted all potential use.
7. Occupying my time with things that would help people and not just myself.
8. Defining myself from within.

What holds you prisoner in this world?!

Greatness

Sometimes it is necessary to overlook direct commands and the rules and regulations of society to achieve GREATNESS.

The human image matters a great deal to many, but life must be lived from an image from within. Whatever the internal image is, is what the external image replicates.
Our THOUGHTS become our WORDS/ Our WORDS become our ACTIONS/ Our ACTIONS become our HABITS/ Our HABITS become our CHARACTER/ Our CHARACTER becomes our DESTINY.

DO WE CONTROL OUR DESTINY OR IS IT REALLY ALREADY WRITTEN?!
And if it is already written why do we try to do anything to change it?!

Thinking thoughts of constant judgment, cause people to judge others based on areas of their lives that they are not satisfied with. eg
WOMEN-appearance of other women(clothes, shoes, make-up, fingers, jewelry, looks, body, AND MANY MORE)
MEN- Strength, body size, ability to talk and get girls, athleticism, MONEY.

When such thoughts go uncontrolled, they follow a cycle called DRAMA!!!
This cycle starts of with finding things about a yourself you are not satisfied with, then moves on to constant judgment and comparison of this believed defect to others, if there are enough people to validate the true existence of this defect, any comment that is made in relation to this defect leads to anger and resentment, even if it was in good faith because all comments are perceived as negative in this stage of the cycle. The last phase is when the person tries to get people to reverse their belief of this defect by persistently asking questions like "who is prettier?/do you like me?/what are we now?/I'm I good enough?" any answer is not good enough. BUT "NO" MAKES YOU AN ENEMY and a TARGET.. to be cont.

My people cry tears and tears.. I cry with them, I understand their struggle. I live their struggle. Opportunity came, now a light is to shine. From high above, came the star. Down to grant liberty.. I am that I AM TO BE!! I STAND ABOVE!!!