Consults, Insults, and Results
Perhaps it was always like this and I just didn’t pay attention. This world bows to those who understand that there are no rules, only results, and many of us are reared on limitations being the standard, while cultivating an unhealthy fear of reaction or discipline. It’s likely one of the main reasons why my culture, the African-American culture, persists to treat financial gain as a finish line of success over pursuing sustainability and progression that may not be as meteoric at the start of the race, but has a much greater chance of picking up the pace than slowing down, ever-cognizant that at some moment, the baton will be passed. As Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “ I may not get there with you” - and that needs to be the directive for all of us able-bodied, iconoclastic individuals benefitting from the powers of those before us while we walk into contemporary spaces and remind ourselves “you’ve got nothing to fear”. How beautiful will it be when we collectively dispel the notion from even appearing? I happen to believe that children robbed of their curiosities and belief in self are the seeds of discontent that fester into all of our worldly problems. It sets us on a path of internal destruction that’s only mirrored by how we outwardly interact with our friends, family, and our environment. Whatever you’ve seen destroyed in the physical has already decimated the internal makeup of the agent of chaos that darkness is channeled through. I give thanks to the most high every day, realizing that I didn’t have to be given an early opportunity to live in my power, but was able to learn how to shape and control my singular gifts to guide me along my life’s path. Most people’s powers don’t come with instruction manuals, and they destroy most things they care about until they harness their power. The crunchy white girls like to call it shadow work, but traditionally I’d consider it keeping it real with yourself. Lauryn Hill once said in her classic jam ‘Forgive Them Father’, and I quote: “It was once said, and I found to be true // that everyday people they lie to God, too // so what makes you think that they won’t lie to you?” True indeed.
