In the market place of life, ideas are adorned with the most attractive clothing. The main purpose being that they attract our attention in such away that we buy and own them and enjoy them.
What happens, when the idea that you have bought from the market place of life, holds you prisoner. Shackles your feet. Entombs you and suffocates the very life out of your frail body. Do you have the wherewithal to swim against that tide onto the shores of a new you.
Often times, in my disscussion with my friends who have unhealthy stomach extensions, they keep reminding me that they were born with a fat gene. The kind of gene that goes out of its way to seek and infuse the body with fat, fat and more fat.
They invite me to look at their parents and grand parents and true to their thinking, they are from an environment that encouraged the kind of eating habits that can only give birth to the mother of all unhealthy circumstances. In as far as they are concerned, it is a gene thing. In as far as life is actually concerned, it is a choice thing.
We are not our genes. We are the thought process that goes on each and every second of our lives. Just like the thought process that goes in our minds when we are in the market place, we determine how to live and how to make our lives better by considering what is in our mind.
If we buy into the idea that we are vessels of some gene and that, like a rudderless ship, we toss and turn according to the dictates of the waves, that we have no power to alter the course of our lives, these words should remind you that you have bought a fake product from the market place of ideas. You have been sold a huge lie!!!
It is a lie that you have no choice but to be a slave to the conditionings of your childhood. It is a lie that you can only be as good as your surrounding. It is a lie that you are destined to live as your clan mates live. It is a lie that your aspirations only stretch as far as the tip of your nose.
Those lies will hold you prisoner. Those lies will entomb you in a pot of poverty and sickness that will shock your creator. Those lies will blind you to the obvious infinite possibilites that are silently withering in you. They will gently but surely guide you onto that smelly and filthy dung heap of failure.
When you meet your maker, He will look at you in amazement. He will stand back. He will look deep into your soul and mutter under His breath: I gave you will power. I gave you a brain, my most effective invention. All you could do is live a life that is as sorry as it was painful...oh man oh man...
Truth be told, there is not a machine on the face of this earth that is as efficient, effective and powerful as the human brain. It is in the proper use of this brain that we can break free of all those chains that are holding us in. Holding us to the false assumptions of those who lived before us.
It is Lao Tzu, that Great Chinese philosopher who said: "When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."
That is the crux of the matter. We must let go of all those things that we are, if we are to breath life into what we might be. All that we are now, is as a result of the ideas that we bought in the market place of the live we have lived thus far.
We must let go of all those lies. We must look into the biggest market known to man. If you look very carefully in the mirror, you will see that that market rests very solidly between your ears.
Your mind is master and to paraphrase one of those exciting poems:
You are the captain of your soul
You are the master of your fate.
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