This is The Uplift. Heed.
Never let someone else tell you that you should feel less than great. That you should live in fear. You’re a powerful person, and you’re perfectly capable of handling the things that are in your control. That leaves just the things that are out of your control, and why should you fear those? Fear is a feeling that you carry around alone, that affects only you. Anyone insisting on your fear is trying to exert control.
Why? It’s not obvious yet, but rest assured that living in fear will compromise the strong life you’ve lived and must live daily. Fear why? So that when something terrible happens, you can say “I saw this coming.” Or, better yet, “I told you so.” Even supposing we will one day see that hypothesized ‘something terrible’, is it our responsibility to live with it not just every day from then on but every day before as well?
Honestly, we saw this after 11Sept2001; we were required to live in fear, to let that day define all our days, to willingly sacrifice our civil rights, to be mistrustful of our fellow citizens. The Powers-That-Was capitalized on that tragedy to create compliant citizens whose days simply couldn’t go on as before. Now, we have the Powers-That-Don’t-Be calling us to recognize an electoral tragedy as the beginning of the apocalypse, telling us that life won’t go on as before, that we should be mistrustful of the other side, that we should live in fear. Maybe there are bad times a-comin’, but life still breaks down to one distinction: those things within our control versus those things outside of our control. Most important is recognition that we have control over all the feelings we carry around within us on our journeys. Nobody gets to throw their agenda on our backs without our consent.
Brush it off. Spread joy. What I see in front of us is a great opportunity to be consciously nice to each other. People who won’t, or who do the opposite–well, that’s on them. Be your awesome self, in total control of your greatness.
You should live in strength. Be it, spread it. If you don’t know how to do that, find it in this music.
Hold on, be strong. Don’t let nobody get you down. Git up, git out, and get something. Don’t you worry ’bout a thing. Every little thing’s gonna be alright. Keep on pushin’…
War, Outkast, Curtis Mayfield, Sly & The Family Stone, and Stevie Wonder come through for us here.
Aim at constant evolution, constant education, constant elevation. Be well, and be good.
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