Passion

Passion is the Fire that makes all things come to life!!!

Passion is the Fire that makes all things come to life!!!
Passion is the Fire that makes all things come to life!!!

Passion is starting something that is lit up and ignited by your inspiration. Passion is something that one ignites and grows into an explosive fiery force that cannot be extinguished once it is ignited. In many instances, the greatest minds of our past and present continuously work to show their talent and geniuses to the world through their passions. In turn, I believe that people that judge others who have made names for themselves want them to get complacent and falter. However, those who zone out other’s comments and imagine that they are nothing but chatter will become far more resilient and willing to succeed. Let’s face it, we only live once and life can be tough, but that is part of the thrill. Passion grows from continuously l believing in yourself and growing from the mistakes you make along the way.

Let’s look at passion from this perspective, that you are a blacksmith and the furnace you fuel is your desires, visions, ideals, and passion. In heating these materials together you get a weapon that is strong as your will and strong as your passion. You can use this weapon to slay your insecurities, doubts, and most of all the negativity you may face from others around you. This is what I feel passion is from my perspective. It is a blade worthy of being wielded by the few who have the courage, determination, and most of all persistence to take the steps and make the mistakes needed to pursue your dreams and passions. 

There is no passion to be found playing small–in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Nelson Mandela

People with great passion can make the impossible happen 

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Be a forger of your own ambition no matter if it is small or big. Take steps one at a time to create a weapon that will never grow dull, because of your will, efforts, and most of all your courage to make it stronger and deadlier for those who look down on you. Be the greatness you want to see in the world!

Strikes Of Lightning

Change is everywhere!

Change is Storm

One may know the phrase that ‘lightning doesn’t strike the same place twice, but what if I told you in actuality that is an obsolete idea, because actually it can strike the same place twice, once in your universe and another in your reality.  In any life changing events that one faces,whether it may be good or bad, it has somehow changed the flow of one’s internal world and made one’s reality somewhat turbulent. Thus, this makes one question their decisions in how to carry on in achieving their goals. In reality this change for many individuals is a make or break moment, meaning this is when everyone of us is tested with how strong our resolve is. If it is strong, then the change that you face will be positive, while those who’s resolve falters, may face an unfavourable wave of change, which may cause regret and great deal of friction to accept.

Before we delve deeper into this post I want to clarify that lightning is the element I am using to symbolize change, growth, and failure, because in a way we need this element to put us through these trials to make us, stronger, bolder, braver, persevere, and lastly, to stay resilient.

Now that I have explained the significance of lightning lets delve into the core of this element, which is change, in what I shared earlier is something we all had or have to face depending on what stages of life we are in. Change is all around us like right now where we have to stay home, due to COVID-19. Many people I understand are still struggling, whether it may be financially, professionally, or even personally; regardless I want you all to take the time out of your day to accept that this change may open many doors that you may have not thought of opening or rediscovering oneself and finding out new interests that one may want to develop once everything resumes. Everyone of us needs change, whether it may be good or bad no one knows, but at least it keeps us on our toes and always keeps life interesting.

It’s not a Storm. It’s a Transition.

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I want people to understand that life is messy and change is the storm that can bring good tidings or can cause great disasters. In many of these storms lightning is a force that has the potential to guide one to great destinations that one may have not thought of. 

Embrace Darkness to find Path to Light

Embrace yourself all bad and good.

 

We often view that darkness as a force that will cause us harm, and force us to see things about ourselves that we hope not to see. That is why we perceive darkness as evil and often perceived as a plague to the minds as a form of negativity with unwanted feelings about us. This can be frustrating at times because it forces us to work on ourselves, but it allows us to grow as individuals with some form of vulnerability. One must understand that embracing one’s dark half is embracing a part of one’s true self, though one will not like it, nevertheless one must accept as indisputable truth of their self. In order to journey on towards the light forged by continuous hard work and self-discovery.

For example, I went through a lot of hardships within education, however that hardship has made me who I am today. I have also learnt to use my darkness as a teacher in helping me to see understand my significance and purpose in this expansive earth. My dark half and the experiences have also taught me as to how I can evolve from my darkness into a brighter yet truthful being. At the end of the day, darkness is how we perceive and internalize the feelings that we feel about our truths. In turn, darkness is the dirt that seeks for us to be non-complacent and to be in continuous evolution. From the earlier example, I described how I had to overcome my challenge in education and how that has made me who I am today. During that time in my life, I was in a tough situation, which forced me to venture into unknown experiences, which, looking back to that hardship, I feel grateful. This experience has armed me with the realization that I am capable of anything only if I will it. And now I see myself as the writer of my own life not predestined by anyone else. Through this experience, I acquired the trait of resilience that is strong enough to feel calm amidst any crisis. This is how darkness has taught me to value myself, regardless of how other people see me. As Eddie Pinero says, “No one knows what key you hold, only you know it, and they will find out in time just ten steps behind you”. The battle with darkness and against it has taught me life’s many lessons that are easily missed, like recognizing that having an inner darkness is essential for growing into a being that recognizes that every struggle that one ever faces is against themselves rather than with other people. War comes in everyone’s life no matter how pure, innocent, or even how evil, and malicious one is. In order to gain access to the path to light, one is challenged by darkness.

I know you may be thinking where I am going with this topic. About all this “darkness and light mumbo jumbo”, but what I am trying to convey is that one should see darkness as a challenge and as a choice – you either run away from it, or you face it. Only when a person whose inner darkness gets strong mentally and spiritually, can they acquire insight into their heart’s desires. Since we are on this topic, I want to tell you about a show that I watched this summer, which is called Cloak and Dagger. This show had a very interesting concept of two teenagers who acquired the power to control light and dark, which entailed that one kid who had acquired the power of light had the ability to peer into people’s hopes and dreams. The counterpart had the power of darkness had the power to peer into people’s fears and their secrets that they wished to hide from other people. This show gives a unique insight into how we as humans try to look positive from the outside, while from the inside negativity and fears are running amuck in our mind and heart, thus causing one to be easily faltered in one’s goal’s an endeavour.

For example, some people believe that they live in the present, however, though that may be their perspective, it may not be true no matter how much they say they live in the present moment. That outlook can be a goal, as it takes a lot of time to acquire the positive energy to maintain it. But, that can only happen if one has faced their demons and won, thus making their mind and spirit strong enough to maintain the positive process. I believe that light is beautiful, but its beauty is often shrouded in darkness and sometimes one must be astonished to the beauty of the dark, because that is how life is designed for us humans here and now. But, how we internalize the beauty and ugliness is how we claw to pick apart the shadow and once again bring back the light that we constantly seek.

Lastly, I want to conclude this blog by pointing out that darkness is in everybody’s life, but how we learn to face the dark and embrace through overcoming challenges and learning from it constantly builds the fortitude and the resilience needed to rise to walk into the light.

I now ask you, is darkness a friend, or a foe? Because regardless of how one perceives it, at the end of the day, that is the only way to walk into the light.

Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.

——-Madeline L’Engle