tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79101593982221066142024-03-07T02:35:53.922-08:00Trapped in a Man-SuitGavin Whyte is the author of The Girl with the Green-Tinted Hair, Happiness & Honey and Waiting for Wings.Gavin Whytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990872125537290835noreply@blogger.comBlogger219125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910159398222106614.post-86751609521518697182017-05-21T04:39:00.003-07:002017-05-21T04:39:36.160-07:00Please visit: gavinwhyte.org<div style="text-align: center;">
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Gavin Whytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990872125537290835noreply@blogger.com79tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910159398222106614.post-77753437147517417842017-05-14T05:56:00.002-07:002017-05-14T06:09:28.457-07:00It All Starts With This One Question<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’ve mentioned before of being a member of the faculty at <a href="https://www.theschooloflife.com/" target="_blank">The School of Life</a> (TSOL).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not to pitch it to you, but I believe they’re providing a decent service that more and more of us can benefit from, so I’ll tell you a little about it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was set up by the philosopher, <a href="http://amzn.to/2rf8KFc" target="_blank">Alain de Botton</a> (that bald, clever chap who seems to have more time in a day than the rest of us… That wasn’t an attack on the baldies, Alain. I’m going bald, too…).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The sole intention behind TSOL, if you don’t already know, is to promote emotional intelligence and wellbeing, by providing classes on a variety of topics, such as <i>How to Stay Calm</i>, <i>How to Face Death</i> and <i>How to Fill the God-Shaped Hole</i> (I currently run the former two).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="https://www.theschooloflife.com/classes/" target="_blank">(Click here for a list of the classes they provide.)</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each class allows a maximum 26 people to attend. It’s an ideal number that allows you to mingle with like-minded people and possibly forge new friendships. The classes are set up so that the participants get involved in discussions and activities; questions are asked and answers are questioned. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This is philosophy after all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Each class runs for about 2 and half hours, with breaks in between. As <a href="https://www.jimrohn.com/" target="_blank">Jim Rohn</a> said, “The brain can only absorb what the seat can endure.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He meant ass.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And breaks can be needed, too, for some of the classes aren’t exactly light. On the contrary, some are heavy, such as the <i>How to Face Death</i> class for obvious reasons. Even the <i>How to Stay Calm</i> class goes into unpleasant examples of survival stories, as to demonstrate how we can learn from the survivors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">TSOL also have their own selection of books you can buy - and they’re decent, too. I’ve read four of them so far.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2pKmFSQ" target="_blank">How to Stay Sane - Philippa Perry</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2rfcFC3" target="_blank">How to Develop Emotional Health - O. James</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2pKUbIn" target="_blank">Life Lessons from Kierkegaard - R. Ferguson</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2qfr3Mn" target="_blank">Life Lessons from Byron - Matthew Bevis</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><a href="http://amzn.to/2rfAUjp" target="_blank">Life Lessons from Bergson - Michael Foley</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The “Life Lessons” collection is a great way to get to know the people you may have heard so much about, but have never dared to dive into their work for fear of not understanding it. At least that’s why I never read their work. Kiergaard’s philosophy, for example, is not easy to read at all, but these small books are written to explain things in an accessible way, so even the most complex philosophical theories can be understood.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Talking of making philosophy easy and interesting, I’m reading <a href="http://amzn.to/2pKZ83O" target="_blank">Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder</a> at the moment. I’m loving it. I can't believe I've never read it before. It’s a history of philosophy, infused with the story of a fifteen-year old girl, who finds a letter addressed to her, and on it are the words, “Who are you?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Asking ourselves that very question is exactly how we become philosophers of our own life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">You know those periods you go through when all of a sudden you’re super productive?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All of a sudden you feel an urge to get things done, to step up a gear and move forward towards a goal that’s dear to you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Last weekend (I’m writing this on Saturday, so it’s exactly a week ago) I started to watch videos by fellow bloggers, with the intention of learning from them. If they were doing this full time, then so could I - but how?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The reason I’ve been writing on here every day was because I wanted to take this writing business seriously. I told myself it was now or never. I was so close to deleting this blog but something inside me told me to give it one last shot. That’s when I decided to write 300 words a day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It was a way for me to create a writing habit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And it worked. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s when I began to look for ways to move forward.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Saturday night I began to read <a href="https://www.amazon.com/You-Writer-Start-Acting-Like/dp/0990378500/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1494668875&sr=8-3&keywords=jeff+goins" target="_blank">You’re a Writer (so start acting like one)</a> by Jeff Goins.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I finished it on Sunday morning, in a cafe, with my small white dog on my lap. Come to think of it, I must’ve looked not too dissimilar to <i>James Bond’s Dr No</i>, but I wasn’t planning world domination - at least not in <i>that</i> sense.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I realized one thing: I had to have a basic foundation. Well, I had a basic foundation - it was <i>this</i> blog, so I needed to go to the next stage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Come Monday morning I had a meeting with a friend, and he informed me of several options for creating a site. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I should say that I’m not tech-savvy in the slightest. When it comes to computers and the inner-workings of the internet, I’m pretty clueless. (My mum showed me how to work an iPad.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When I got home from the meeting, I continued to do some research… and then I plunged straight in to creating a website.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I haven’t decided whether or not to continue posting on here; I'm edging more towards giving my new site my full attention. We'll see.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So it’s a new chapter for me.</span></span></div>
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Gavin Whytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990872125537290835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910159398222106614.post-2968084617998968752017-05-12T08:55:00.000-07:002017-05-12T08:58:52.017-07:00Doing This One Thing Can Make Life So Much Easier<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So many of us are afraid of doing this one thing. Without it we get nowhere, or we get somewhere slowly; and the road was probably a treacherous one when it didn’t need to be <i>that </i>treacherous.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We’re afraid to do this one thing because we’re afraid of how we might look in the eyes of others - at least that’s one of the reasons we’re afraid to do it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s a pride thing. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Pride + Fear = Suffering alone when there’re 7 billion of us under the sky.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Silly, really, not just because of the hefty numbers that are working in our favour, but because behind the eyes the other is exactly the same as you. It really is like looking in a mirror, once you bypass surface appearances. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I’m digressing, but my point is there’s nothing to be afraid of by doing this one thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Okay, here it is. Here’s the one thing you can do today that can make life so much easier for yourself.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can… <i>ask for help</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There’s nothing new under the sun, as they say, so I’m sorry if you feel a little let down. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Maybe I built it up too much…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But asking for help is so unbelievably effective! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not to mention helpful…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Whether it’s related to your current workload in the office; your turbulent relationship you feel trapped in; maybe you’re afraid to ask for help with something health-related (have you found a lump? A new mole? What is it? Go and ask and find out). Maybe there’s a form you need to fill out and you’ve no idea how to do it. It just feels too complicated and now you’re feeling anxious. Check online for instructions. Find an email address; a phone number.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We’re connected like never before, what with the internet and social media. Help is at our fingertips.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Ignore that voice in your head that feeds you scary what-if scenarios. I have that voice too. I put it in its place and it shuts up - until next time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Here’s something to remember… the reason there’s help out there is because, most often than not, someone has gone through what you’re currently facing - or at least something similar.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And they made it out alive to tell the tale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Who better to receive help from than the person who’s familiar (or even vaguely familiar) with the path you’re on and the obstacles you’re facing? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Then you know you were never alone; for if there’s one thing not asking for help creates within, it’s a feeling of isolation and loneliness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There’re too many of us for you to feel lonely. Reach out your hand and somebody, somewhere, will grab it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What I’ve found is that most of us like to help. It makes us feel good. We don’t help <i>because</i> it feels good or <i>to</i> feel good; we feel good for helping because when we help we're helping ourselves. We’re one and the same, remember?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be nice to the person looking back at you in the mirror, and see how you feel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So, please, if you’re feeling stuck, for whatever reason, reach out. There’re so many of us, at least one of us will be able to help you.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Even if it’s your truly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Please, get in touch by all means. I don’t bite…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Continuing on from <a href="https://trappedinamansuit.blogspot.tw/2017/05/the-sun-and-moon-part-1-of-2.html" target="_blank">Part 1...</a></i></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'It sounds like a good idea,' said the Sun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So the Sun plodded ever so slowly over to the West and laid its head down to rest. And the Moon shone proudly and watched over the people as they slept.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On one clear night the Moon noticed a small child pointing in its direction. The Moon was over itself with delight. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It had been spotted! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It almost went and woke up the Sun with utter excitement. To the Moon's amazement the child wasn't finished, for then it yelled, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Mum! Dad! Come and look at the Moon! Look how big and bright it is!'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Moon puffed itself up and lit up the night sky, like never before. It was full of itself (this is where the term Full Moon originally comes from).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">People couldn't help but notice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Poems were written about it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Songs were Sung.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paintings were painted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The seas and lakes chose to reflect on it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The tides began to listen to it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">People would take late night walks and thank it for its guidance along their path.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'I no longer envy the Sun,' uttered the Moon, one night as it sat reflecting. 'All this time I thought the Sun and I should share the same purpose, but I was wrong. I am happy for the Sun to shine so brightly during the day, because I'm able to shine so brightly at night.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not many people know this, but the Sun gets many nightmares. It ends up being all hot and bothered and comes out in a fever. So on clear nights, when the Moon is nowhere to be seen, please know it hasn't grown impatient and left its post. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is quietly humming the Sun to sleep and will be back in no time at all.</span></span></div>
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Gavin Whytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990872125537290835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910159398222106614.post-87152343764458498562017-05-10T06:19:00.001-07:002017-05-10T06:19:14.312-07:00The Sun and the Moon - Part 1 of 2 <div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">There was a time when the Sun and the Moon were so close that they rose and set together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The people who populated Young Earth looked up in delight at the amazing exhibition of two heavenly bodies, side by side.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What the people didn't know was that their lives were on the verge of changing forever. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Sun was always the optimist of the two, always looking on the bright side of every occasion. This irritated the Moon and naturally it began to fall into the shadows. Whatever the Moon could do the Sun could do it brighter.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Because of this, the Moon began to foster feelings of envy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'People adore you,' the Moon complained.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'They adore you, too,' consoled the Sun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">‘I doubt it! When you appear, they give thanks. They're not bothered when I come along. In fact, the majority of them go to bed! Every time we rise and set together I see eyes of millions staring at you.’</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This sad state of affairs continued for quite some time, until, one day, the Moon saw the Sun yawning.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">'Are you tired, Sun?' asked the Moon, rather taken aback.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">‘I think so,' said the Sun. 'We might have to set earlier today.'</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Moon felt an idea stirring beneath its chalk-like surface, for its scars that we see today didn't come until much later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was a kid with a lot of energy and a vivid imagination. (Something I still have!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I wanted to be out in the woods, climbing trees, splashing through streams; finding frogs, birds’ nests and dead stuff. We would make dens and tree-swings and get cut up and bruised. We would spy on the older kids and get chased by farmers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That’s what being a boy was all about; discovering the world by prodding it and pushing it, to see if prodded and pushed back.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And it did, loads of times.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It was called <i>lesson learnt</i>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The buzz came from thinking you were going to die - truly believing it was the end - but then making it home in time for dinner. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Books couldn’t come close to that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They couldn’t pump me full of adrenalin, get my heart racing and my forehead dripping. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How lame it felt to turn a page, when my legs were still shaking from being chased by Rottweilers and German Shepherds!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You can’t expect them to get lost in a book - which is where the pleasure of reading is found - whilst constantly asking them what is meant by this passage and that piece of dialogue; and all the while, hanging the threat of homework above their heads, which is to “Write an essay on the protagonist’s perception of the world she can’t see.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If kids don’t enjoy reading, it might be because they’re enjoying being a kid.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now, I absolutely love reading because I gave myself space to read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And that’s good for me, because folk tend to call the cops when they see an adult in a tree.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“What?” said Barry, aghast. “NO!” </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">She was never seen again by those on her rock. They mourned her absence - especially Barry, who was the last to see her, and couldn’t help blaming himself. The warnings of the tide were drilled into the young barnacles, with even more severity than before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">As she surrendered to the tide, smiling at Barry’s shocked expression, watching it getting smaller and fainter, she was actually becoming clearer and clearer to others she was not yet aware of.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Who’s this?” she heard, and turned around instantly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Hello there, young one!” said a deep, penetrating voice. “Welcome!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bev literally could not believe what she was seeing. Barnacles, just like her, were not on rocks, but on a huge whale.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Park yourself here,” said the barnacle with the deep voice. He seemed to be in charge. “Move up, everyone. Let’s create some space for her.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Bev was still speechless. Her own imagination could never have conjured up such an experience.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Well done for letting go and trusting!” said the barnacle in charge. “I’m Benny.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“You’re Crazy… sorry, I mean, you’re Benny?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Guilty. And you are?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Bev.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And all of the barnacles, including the whale, all chorused, “Hello, Bev!” Of course, the whale’s voice drowned out the rest.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Oh, this is Winnie,” said Benny. “As you can see, she’s a whale, and a grand one at that.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Mind? It was her idea, wasn’t it Winnie?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a slow, operatic sort of voice, Winnie said, “It can be lonely swimming through the world’s oceans, all by oneself.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And so, legend has it, that Bev went on to see the world. </span><br />
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Just… copy me,” said Barry. “You don’t hear me fantasizing about being swept away by the tide.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“That’s because you’re afraid!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Afraid?! I’m not scared to let go! It’s just that we’re not supposed to, that’s all. I prefer to follow the rules, unlike <i>some</i> folk.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“What, that trusting the tide leads to happiness? Of course I’ve heard them. Everyone has. But I’ve already told you, it means saying goodbye to all that we know.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Both of them were quiet for sometime, then Bev said, “You said those who have let go have never been seen again, but there was one, wasn't there?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“You mean Crazy Benny? Yeah, okay, good luck trusting him. The tide went to his head.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“But he said-“</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I know what he said. My grandpa’s told me all about him. He was there, when he came back.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, wasn’t Benny happy?” said Bev.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“He was as crazy as a crab, my grandpa said. He said Crazy Benny was telling everyone how the tide takes you where you need to go, just as long as you’re willing to let go first. Trust! That’s what he kept on saying. Trust! Trust! Hah! Fool. They pushed him off the rock. They couldn’t stand him talking such nonsense.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Maybe that’s why nobody ever comes back, because persuading others to trust the tide, when we’ve been conditioned not to, is pointless.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“They tell us that stuff for our own good.”</span></span></div>
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Gavin Whytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990872125537290835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910159398222106614.post-58695604389588276652017-05-06T01:46:00.001-07:002017-05-06T01:46:04.122-07:00300 Words a Day - #34: A Barnacle's Tale - Part 1 of 3<div style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; line-height: normal;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>Yesterday, I mentioned the importance of flowing with life, and finished off using the analogy of a barnacle. (A barnacle being an arthropod that clings to rocks, resisting the tide.) </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><i>I remember reading a tale about a barnacle, but I can’t remember whereabouts I read it. </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So the story goes that a group of barnacles were clinging to a rock.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All the barnacles were conditioned from a young age to resist the tide. No matter how hard life got, one was never to let go and be swept away.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Those that get swept away are never seen again!” said a melodramatic barnacle. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“But there has to be more to life than clinging to this rock,” said another barnacle. We’ll call her Bev. Her thinking set her apart from the rest. “Day in, day out, all we do is cling. What if there’s more?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“More?” said Barry. “What do you mean more?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Well, suppose all those who have let go and trusted where the tide took them-”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Now stop that talk about the tide! If the elders hear you they’ll-“</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I wasn’t saying anything bad... I was just going to say, what if those who have let go are not only okay but are actually having an amazing time? What if they’ve found other rocks?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“You talk daft!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“What if they’re doing what every barnacle dreams of?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“And what exactly might that be?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Well… don’t you want to be free?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I am free… free to roam on our rock!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“No, I mean free with the tide; for all the stress and the pressure to vanish.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our family and friends think they know what’s best for us, just as we think we know what’s best for them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We willingly advise those of whom we care for, with the hope of steering them to safety.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what happens when they shock us by doing something that alters our perception of them?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Do we get offended because our preconceived expectations and assumptions of who we thought they were, now prove to be useless? Do we feel foolish, now?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When they decide to live a life they want to live, as apposed to the life we expect and want them to live, do we feel offended because we thought we had them down to a tee? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And now all of a sudden they’ve changed, and it is us that are left feeling confused and uncertain about life. Furthermore, where we stand in relation to this person - who we thought we knew so well - is now unclear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Many of us don’t like change. It’s the unknown that bothers us. Whereas certainty can make us feel comfortable and cozy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It can be a shock to the system when others don’t like change in <i>your</i> life because of how it makes <i>them</i> feel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or maybe they say they’re worried about you because they think you’re making a wrong move.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Are you going to change your mind and deny yourself the chance to truly live the life you want to live? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or are you going to stick to what your deeper self is telling you; that you need to make this move because this is the way life is taking you? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We put ourselves under enormous amounts of pressure when we resist the flow of life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Breaking the news to them was harder than I thought it would be.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The majority of them reacted in a way that was the very antithesis of supportive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They couldn’t understand why I had suddenly decided to turn my back on the very thing I had been working towards, for nearly a decade.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You don’t do that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But if it feels right, then you have to.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Because if you don’t you are ignoring the roadsigns that you are on the wrong route.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And the longer you leave it, the harder it will be to turn the wheel.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’ve always been one for trusting my feelings, and I advise others to practice doing the same thing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Our feelings are like an inner sat-nav, one that we were born with in our gut; telling us to turn left, go straight ahead, stop here a while and then carry on at a reasonable pace.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They seem to know what’s best for us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Don’t ask me how… </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Perhaps it’s nudges from something that’s greater than us. Some might say the divine, God, the universe… I’m not going to surmise. All I can go on is my own experience, and what I’ve found is that when I follow and trust my feelings, they guide me, like water, along the path of least resistance.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">For when I resist, I suffer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So my feelings guide me along the path that contains more of the things I’m less likely to resist, thereby manifesting more positive feelings, such as gratitude and a sense that I’m on the right track and “in tune” with what is.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sometimes, though, following our feelings goes against the advice from those who think they know what’s best for us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I’m aware I’m repeating myself here, but it was only when my dream came true did I realize I no longer wanted it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nobody could’ve changed my mind when I was on my quest. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If somebody had’ve said, “What if you don’t actually want it?” I sincerely wouldn’t have been able to compute what they were saying.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The thought of not wanting it didn’t enter the equation. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Why would it?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The thought of failing entered my mind loads of times, but that was through fear.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A thought that doubted why I wanted the dream to become a reality would’ve doubted everything I lived for, would’ve doubted the complete identity I had conjured up.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Talk about fear!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">No, I never doubted my goal because I enjoyed making music too much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">So when the dream came true and we started gigging around the UK, and I found myself slipping further and further into a dark place, I knew something wasn’t right.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">That question I had never asked needed to be asked.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One day, whilst sitting in my car, I asked myself, “What would it feel like, right now, if I stopped making music?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I shut my eyes and pretended for about ten seconds how that would feel. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It was as if an elephant had been lifted off of my chest and shoulders.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So there it is, a nine-year quest condensed into a few 300-word posts. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The chase was over. The fox had caught the rabbit.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It took patience, self-confidence, persistence, perseverance, determination, drive, stubbornness, hope, faith, imagination, creativity, self-belief, passion, joy, trust - all of that stuff, and more.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With all of that thrown into the mix I knew I could achieve what I had set out to achieve.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">What a lesson that was.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And that’s priceless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It doesn’t take super powers to turn a dream into a reality. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You really can do anything you put your mind to. If you stay focused and determined and believe in yourself, I’m telling you, you can do what you set out to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">You will get mocked and people will try and shoot you down, as I have already forewarned. But use their remarks, their strikes - their weakness - and turn it into your strength.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">That’s all that it is, their weakness. You remind them of what they’re afraid to do.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you believe in yourself and I don’t believe in myself, then I’m either going to model you, envy you, or try and bring you down a notch, so we see eye to eye.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With people like that, it’s far easier for them to chip away at what you’ve built, so you end up at their level, rather than them finding the strength within themselves to reach your height.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It’s far easier for many of us to attempt to shrink someone who’s growing, rather than to grow ourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have mentioned before, in a previous post, how, when I signed along the dotted line of a recording contract, the dotted line I had envisioned for nine years, I was overcome by an unexpected numbness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had caught up with my dream; it had caught up with me. We were intertwined, dancing together, and yet all I wanted was for the waltzing to stop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">However, I’m getting ahead of myself. I just want to briefly backtrack to how I came about signing on that line.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It all started with my friend’s dad getting a new shower fitted. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My phone rang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Gav, one of your tracks has just been played on the radio!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Huh? What?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had no idea what he was talking about.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I’ve just been having a shower and one of your tracks just got played!”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">When you’re wanting to break into the music industry and suddenly one of your tracks gets airplay, it’s a pretty big deal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We (because at that point I had teamed up with a pal from Stratford-upon-Avon) got in touch with the DJ who played our track. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It turned out that the DJ wasn’t just a DJ but was a recording artist, too. He had a recording contract with a label in London.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">He liked our track that much that he passed it onto his record label.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We got an email, then a phone call, and then arranged a meeting in Manchester. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Like, for example, how I envisioned the end result, as if it had already come to pass, and how I shared my passion with the world. When people asked, “What do you want to do?” I would proudly answer, “Be a recording artist.” </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I was scoffed at by a lot of people, but I was never discouraged.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“It’s foolish to dream,” was basically what they were wanting to say.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As I got older, people would ask, “Got that recording contract yet?”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">“I’m getting there,” I would say, smiling knowingly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I really did believe I would one day sign along the dotted line of a recording contract. If I didn’t believe it then there wouldn’t have been any point in embarking on the quest in the first place.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My self-belief was paramount. I learned early on how I couldn’t expect others to provide that kind of stuff for me. It had to come from within.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If our closest friends don’t support us, then they don’t support us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If our family don’t support us, then they don’t support us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If our partners don’t support us…</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We need to support ourselves.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Of course, it’s super helpful and nice of them if they find it within themselves to offer support, but not everyone can, especially if they don’t know what it feels like to go for a creative endeavor. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Anybody that mocks me for having a dream only spurs me on. Without knowing it they give me strength, and I thank them for it.<br />
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Expecting the whole world and our entire circle of friends and relatives to support us is expecting too much.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Try it and see what happens. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Being in hot pursuit of what we want, thinking about it on a regular basis, being unbelievably stubborn that we refuse to quit, even when it seems like the odds are stacked against us, often gives our lives added meaning, purpose and drive.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(We need to be aware, that if our dreams lose their meaning and attraction - which they might - that our lives maintain theirs. There is a very serious danger of that happening when we put all of our meaningful eggs in our dream basket.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If we’re on our death bed and our persistence hasn’t paid off, then at least we know we tried. We still didn’t fail. It might become clear at that point, anyhow, that it was all about the process, the journey, not the destination.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was told that the snail reached the arc through persistence. I would often remind myself of that when I felt like I was on a treadmill, putting all my effort into accomplishing my dream, but seemingly getting nowhere. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And why would you want to? You’ve got a VIP ticket to the best show on earth, and it’s got your name all over it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">For as long as I can remember I shared with the world my desire to be a recording artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Was it scary?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">At times, yes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Did I get ridiculed?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You bet I did! </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I still do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You think I don’t get laughed at, scoffed at, for writing this blog?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You don’t think people who know me, secretly (sometimes not so secretly) laugh at my attempts to be a writer?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You didn’t think when I showed people my music, back when I was a teenager, that everybody supported me, did you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">I was laughed at from day one - even by my closest friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Even teachers said I was wasting my time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Did I continue to share my dream with anybody who was willing to listen?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Too right I did, because it was too important.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">And guess what I noticed… most of those who didn’t support me were the ones who didn’t have a dream of their own to go for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Interesting, right?</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Share your dream.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You’ve got nothing to be afraid of. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">If you have something to go for you have to be willing to take hits for it - and you will get hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">It just proves you’re in the ring, fighting for what you believe in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">Kudos to you. </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">You’re gaining strength.</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">To quote <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Happiness-Honey-Gavin-Whyte/dp/150877580X/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1493107759&sr=8-2&keywords=Gavin+whyte"><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 238); color: #551a8b;"><i>Happiness & Honey</i></span></a>, “<i>A dream has the power to put the fear of God in an idle heart.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;">When you share with the world your dreams, you remind the non-dreamers of what they’re afraid of. But by bravely stepping forward and saying, “Think what you like, I’m doing this,” you light a torch and attract to you people and circumstances that will help you move forward.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">On my computer at home and at college, I used a picture of this keyboard as my desktop wallpaper, so I would see this image several times a day, every day. I would gaze at it and imagine myself playing it. I would feel the cool keys beneath my fingers and imagine turning the dials.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">One day, when I was at college, I was fantasizing about having the Roland EG-101, when my brick of a mobile phone rang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Yeah. I’m staring at it, right now.” (Because it was on my desktop.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“I was just walking past the music shop, in town, and it’s in the window.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“They’ve just told me somebody returned it because it wasn’t the one they ordered. It’s on discount, too. Do you want me to get it, whilst it’s here? You can pay me back.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-kerning: none;">In the previous post, I went through some of the things I did to make my dream of becoming a recording artist a reality. </span><span style="font-family: times, 'times new roman', serif;">How I used to sit up in bed, every night, hands together as if I was praying, and picture in my mind what I wanted my future to look like, as if the goal had already been accomplished.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-kerning: none;">As my bedroom was spinning and all I wanted was to sink into my cold pillow, I can remember a sober part of me asking, “How badly do you want it?” </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-kerning: none;">Having a meal with family, I would have at least one earphone in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-kerning: none;">I earned £6 a week from a paper round I had. I saved the money to buy albums and singles (it took two weeks, sometimes three, to buy one album.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every night, from the age of fourteen, I would sit up in bed, hands clasped, eyes closed, and envision the following, in as much detail as possible:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> Performing my music on stage (h</span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">undreds, if not thousands of people in front of me.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> The smell of the venue; the sweat, the smoke, the alcohol. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(In the previous post I said how my science teacher took me and several other students to go and see <i>The Prodigy</i>, live in concert, in 1997. All I had to do was imagine myself on that exact stage.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> Walking into music shops and seeing my CDs there - and people buying them!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> Being on the front cover of all the major music magazines.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> Doing TV and radio interviews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> Filming a documentary about my music.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> Winning awards.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">> Having my own recording studio, and being surrounded by equipment. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Some of these were added to the mix later, maybe even years later. For instance, I can remember seeing myself being handed a piece of paper and signing along a dotted line, signifying a record-deal being dealt. I definitely wasn’t imagining that when I was fourteen.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Not only was I seeing these images every night in my mind’s eye, but I would try my best to smell the smells, hear the sounds, feel the heat, feel the equipment etc, just to make it as real as possible.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every night I was filled with hope.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I knew my dream could come true. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Once I had finished my nightly routine, I would go to sleep with a smile on my face and say, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All this seemed to be an inherent technique to bring a dream to fruition. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(If you read that post then you will know I ended up not wanting the dream when I got it, but what I did worked, regardless.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I thought I would use this post (and future ones, as I don’t fancy trying to squeeze it all into a mere 300 words) to explain exactly what I did, back when I was in my teens and early twenties.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I should start off by saying, that when I started visualising, I hadn’t read any books on the subject, nor did I know there was a name for what I was doing. I was fourteen; I was just conjuring up images of what I wanted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We always cover various topics, such as out of body experiences, astral projection, consciousness, the self, fear... and Trump.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I brought up the issue of asking why, no doubt because of a previous post on this blog, whereby I spoke about how, whilst playing with a magnetic alphabet, my student, a young boy, looked at me and said “There is no Y.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I understood the Y as “why” and I had a good laugh to myself, all the while the small Taiwanese boy was looking at me as if to say, “Foreigners are weird.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every time I think about “why I’m here” and I think I have the answer, life seems to say, </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">“Okay, what about now, when I do this?” leaving me looking like I’ve been given an algebra equation to do, whilst standing on my head.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I had completely forgotten about this routine I go through with life.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">We loosely concluded, (<i>loosely</i> because we concluded that conclusions never quite conclude anything we want to really bring to a conclusion!) that life enjoys us asking why, because it keeps the dance going, and it loves dropping us hints and clues (feelings and chance encounters, for instance) because life is playful like that. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">So asking why is child’s play at its grandest and we should never grow out of it.</span></span></div>
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Gavin Whytehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02990872125537290835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7910159398222106614.post-62445891992024201472017-04-21T07:47:00.000-07:002017-04-21T07:47:50.211-07:00300 Words a Day - #19: Which Future You Do You Really Want?<div style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;">
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Be careful which future you you’re chasing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I was overly ambitious, and it was devastating to my health, both physical and mental.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">This was mainly when I was in my late teens and early twenties.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The trouble was I thought I was certain I knew what I wanted.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">(Certainty brings rigidity, and if we’re rigid we can break more easily.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Comparing my then present circumstances with my future vision was painful, to say the least.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Visualising can bring hope, but it can also give us a painful contrast.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It depends on our state of mind at the time.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Mine was unstable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I finally got what I wanted when I was 23.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">My habitual practice of visualising before going to sleep worked like a charm.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But when my then present self caught up with my future vision, I felt numb.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I wasn’t expecting that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And nothing could’ve prepared for it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">All those years I was visualising a future me, and I never considered that when the time came for that vision to become a reality, I would no longer resonate with it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I invested so much of myself, so much of my identity in that future vision, in what I wanted to do, in who I wanted to be, that when I admitted to myself that I no longer wanted it, I was left with an identity crisis on my hands.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don’t mean to be melodramatic, but it was like breaking up with someone, and that night I cried myself to sleep. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">With my future me gone, who was I?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I don’t think I’ve ever felt so lost.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">But what a gift!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Such a tough lesson to learn.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">A friend said at the time, “This could be one of the greatest things that has ever happened to you.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">And it was.</span></span></div>
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