Sometimes, I feel like I’m too real as I navigate amongst my human family.
At times, I am vulnerable and sad and tempted to don armor or return to reclusive.
Orher times I am filled with the joy of life and strive to contain it for fear of repeating past heartbreaks and slights.
I cannot afford another wreckage. I have a child to raise.
I recognize in this moment that the remedy is grace. It isn’t necessarily being “the bigger person”. That requires some sort of comparison, which, in my opinion, is to one’s detriment. The remedy is in being one’s highest self. It is dusting off the detritus of deathly paradigms that never suited you and never will. It is a coming of age to a mental, emotional and spiritual maturity not heretofore seen. It is in being even more real than you think you are.
I have so much work to do. So much to give… So much to share… “To whom much is given…” Much is required of me, chief amongst which is courage.
“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.”
– Frank Herbert
And so it is.
Àṣẹ Om ∞
Errol Percival Jr.
