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I would like to address the Universe, who has been sending me a multitude of messages lately, and all of the same theme. I'm a bit befuddled as to why, because the message is one I've known for a very long time and had been a major theme of my life. This message is that you are what you choose to be.
There was a scrap of paper in a cubicle at work that had a quote from Aristotle last night with this message. I watched the movie Hellboy last night and again, the message was that even if you're a demon from Hell, you can choose do good. Even the second Harry Potter book/film, the Chamber of Secrets, has this as its main theme.
This is nothing new to me. I was raised in southern Indiana, in little hick towns with populations in the one to three-hundred range, absolutely surrounded by uneducated white trash. My own family was quite poor and my parents took little interest in me. They did not encourage spirituality, a wider world-view, education, or socio-economic betterment. There was degeneracy and squalor wherever I looked; nothing but bad examples of the worst idiocy. Were I to follow the examples I was given, taken the limited guidance I was offered, I would be a redneck in a faded Iron Maiden t-shirt, working on my truck, drinking Bud Light.
However, from a very early age, I knew that I did not identify with these people, that there was something bigger and better out there waiting for me, that tiny IQs and smaller vocabularies were not desirable traits. From the trauma and drama of my childhood, were I to take the victim route, I could have been severely psychologically impaired, with issues and complexes galore. Instead, even then, I knew that I could choose to be a victim to the forces and circumstances in my life or I could choose to use those experiences to build something better, to learn from and transcend my environment.
Perhaps the Universe chose to remind me because I've recently found my way back to my Path. For awhile, I had fallen off, and thought of myself as being at the whim of forces I could not control. There is no force I cannot control; there is no destiny which I cannot consciously shape. One must learn to ride fate, but first one must choose to get on the horse.
There was a scrap of paper in a cubicle at work that had a quote from Aristotle last night with this message. I watched the movie Hellboy last night and again, the message was that even if you're a demon from Hell, you can choose do good. Even the second Harry Potter book/film, the Chamber of Secrets, has this as its main theme.
This is nothing new to me. I was raised in southern Indiana, in little hick towns with populations in the one to three-hundred range, absolutely surrounded by uneducated white trash. My own family was quite poor and my parents took little interest in me. They did not encourage spirituality, a wider world-view, education, or socio-economic betterment. There was degeneracy and squalor wherever I looked; nothing but bad examples of the worst idiocy. Were I to follow the examples I was given, taken the limited guidance I was offered, I would be a redneck in a faded Iron Maiden t-shirt, working on my truck, drinking Bud Light.
However, from a very early age, I knew that I did not identify with these people, that there was something bigger and better out there waiting for me, that tiny IQs and smaller vocabularies were not desirable traits. From the trauma and drama of my childhood, were I to take the victim route, I could have been severely psychologically impaired, with issues and complexes galore. Instead, even then, I knew that I could choose to be a victim to the forces and circumstances in my life or I could choose to use those experiences to build something better, to learn from and transcend my environment.
Perhaps the Universe chose to remind me because I've recently found my way back to my Path. For awhile, I had fallen off, and thought of myself as being at the whim of forces I could not control. There is no force I cannot control; there is no destiny which I cannot consciously shape. One must learn to ride fate, but first one must choose to get on the horse.
