i want to know.

what would you do--if you knew that every step of your life was just going to be flooded with favor? that people would automatically like you, that businesses would seek to consult with you, that labels would be begging for contracts with you? that you would barely be able to walk because you'd be tripping over opportunities?

umm--wait a sec, bear with me...i'm a little crazy...what if that's how we're meant to live? come on. i am doing my best not to write in christianese. i'm not suggesting this because it's some properly religious way to think--but what if somehow, someone with some control, somewhere, really WANTS us to succeed and is pulling strings for us?

i know i still, after a hundred years of learning the same lesson (and i'm 25, you do the math) care FAR too much about peoples' impressions. not all the time, not even most of the time. but every time i realize i've just NOT done something because it might receive the wrong reaction...i want to punch myself in the face, scream and run around in circles...get violent. because somewhere, way way way down there, i know i was meant to be famous. a world changer. and how the hell are you supposed to do that if your actions are based on how people will react?

did you not like that i said hell?

choose. only you can choose. choose to DO. to BE. choose something that scares you.

now.

you're meant to be unstoppable.

"you open your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor."

if i told you that was written about obama would it make you happy? or the pope? or bono? (that one was more for me than for you) would you be more comfortable if your wildest dreams were in the hands of someone you could see and hear and tear to pieces?

"you open your hand and satisfy every living thing with favor."

why are you thinking about ignoring it? because it's impossible? because it doesn't make sense? because it was written a million years ago and it's only poetry?




what if it's true?

i want to know.