"You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script"
"Take a look at how you may be limiting your life with self-imposed boxes. We've all done it; we mark our boxes male, female, white, Hispanic, American. We have boxes for how thin we are - or aren't - and how much money we make. We have boxes marked for our professions and where we live...... I have created a life by stepping out of the box of people's limitations. I call it Zigging when others are Zagging"
- Oprah Winfrey, Entertainer
One gorgeous lady......
Who are you? No reeeeeally......
It amazes me (now, not before!) how people define each other by what they do for a living. It also amazes me how many people define others by what they do. For example let's take a little fairly standard scenario..... meeting someone for the first time. You greet. Probably shake hands. You know absolutely nothing about each other. So what do you say to each other. Hmmmm..... Maybe the weather. 'Beautiful day, huh?' 'Oh yeees, lovely!' Hmmmm..... Now what? OhK. How 'bout 'So what do you do (for a living)'. 'Oh, I have my own business'. 'Oh how lovely. What sort of business is that? ' 'Oh, I clean septic tanks'. Oh, aaarrgghhmm, how lovely!....... and you?....
'Oh I have my own business as well'. Oh how lovely. And what sort of business is that? 'Oh, I aaarrgghhmm, sorta HIRE myself out... if you get the drift!' Oh..... how..... aaarrgghhmm..... interesting!
I mean..... what the.....
It amazes me (now, not before!) how people define each other by what they do for a living. It also amazes me how many people define others by what they do. For example let's take a little fairly standard scenario..... meeting someone for the first time. You greet. Probably shake hands. You know absolutely nothing about each other. So what do you say to each other. Hmmmm..... Maybe the weather. 'Beautiful day, huh?' 'Oh yeees, lovely!' Hmmmm..... Now what? OhK. How 'bout 'So what do you do (for a living)'. 'Oh, I have my own business'. 'Oh how lovely. What sort of business is that? ' 'Oh, I clean septic tanks'. Oh, aaarrgghhmm, how lovely!....... and you?....
'Oh I have my own business as well'. Oh how lovely. And what sort of business is that? 'Oh, I aaarrgghhmm, sorta HIRE myself out... if you get the drift!' Oh..... how..... aaarrgghhmm..... interesting!
I mean..... what the.....
.......beach bum........
I sorta take things a bit far sometimes because of my newly found title of HOBO, or BUM. When I want to go upmarket I self-impose the title of BEACH BUM! It happens quite often that people ask what I do. When I am with people who know my background and I tell others that I'm a Hobo they get embarrassed, even annoyed with me and try to set the record straight, much to my amusement because I lost any sense of pride a long time ago. Because I have written a book and some poems, and the website and some songs and have begun another book, someone suggested that I am a writer. Holy guacamole! A what? A writer. Is that what I am now? Hmmmm..... Got a certain ring to it, I must say! Writer!...... OMG....
Well sounds pretty cooool but it's just a tag. It doesn't DEFINE me but I 'spose it explains what I do, even if it doesn't provide any income.....YET!
See because of my EXPERIENCES over the last few years and living amongst the homeless, in fact BECOMING one of the homeless, I don't pay too much attention to titles, or tags. If anyone wants to DEFINE ME then that's 'eggs actly' the definition.......ME. I'm not a this or that, a zig or a zag, a do or a don't. I'm simply ME. If others perceive me as a writer, well that's nice! If they perceive me as a life coach, well that's nice. If they perceive me as a song writer, or singer, or film producer, director, or whatever, weeeell that's nice!
Well sounds pretty cooool but it's just a tag. It doesn't DEFINE me but I 'spose it explains what I do, even if it doesn't provide any income.....YET!
See because of my EXPERIENCES over the last few years and living amongst the homeless, in fact BECOMING one of the homeless, I don't pay too much attention to titles, or tags. If anyone wants to DEFINE ME then that's 'eggs actly' the definition.......ME. I'm not a this or that, a zig or a zag, a do or a don't. I'm simply ME. If others perceive me as a writer, well that's nice! If they perceive me as a life coach, well that's nice. If they perceive me as a song writer, or singer, or film producer, director, or whatever, weeeell that's nice!
If my experiences can help others deal with their misery, if I can help them feel better about themselves and provide some sort of inspiration for them, weeeell that's sooooo cooool. That's the DEFINITION I want. That's how I would like people to think of me. I don't need to be Mother Teresa, or Anthony Robbins or Oprah. I have a DEFINITION of me.........
................... ME................
And I can DEFINE you as well. Not pre-defined. Not pre-supposed. When I look at you there is no judgement, no expectation. My DEFINITION of you is just .....................................................YOU.............
Pretty simple really.
And you know why they are my definitions? Because LIFE has served me up some curve balls to teach me a little about myself and every other dot. Now it is my responsibility to myself and to you to SHARE my EXPERIENCES, and to SHARE my KNOWLEDGE. I have weathered the storm, or in fact many storms. I have learned a lot of things about myself as well as homelessness. The things I have learned about homelessness is HOW TO SURVIVE, how to keep ticking without throwing in the towel. The thing I have learned about life is to be mindful of the most important people in my life........
ME and YOU
There have been many lessons. Many of them I don't want you to learn through practical experience as they are pretty tough yards. You don't need to do them when I have already done them. And so I will tell the stories, share the experiences. And I'll do it on a grand stage so lotsa dots will get the messages.
I can't wait........
................... ME................
And I can DEFINE you as well. Not pre-defined. Not pre-supposed. When I look at you there is no judgement, no expectation. My DEFINITION of you is just .....................................................YOU.............
Pretty simple really.
And you know why they are my definitions? Because LIFE has served me up some curve balls to teach me a little about myself and every other dot. Now it is my responsibility to myself and to you to SHARE my EXPERIENCES, and to SHARE my KNOWLEDGE. I have weathered the storm, or in fact many storms. I have learned a lot of things about myself as well as homelessness. The things I have learned about homelessness is HOW TO SURVIVE, how to keep ticking without throwing in the towel. The thing I have learned about life is to be mindful of the most important people in my life........
ME and YOU
There have been many lessons. Many of them I don't want you to learn through practical experience as they are pretty tough yards. You don't need to do them when I have already done them. And so I will tell the stories, share the experiences. And I'll do it on a grand stage so lotsa dots will get the messages.
I can't wait........
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