To whom much is given....

.....much is required. Or so it is said. In many places including the good book of the Lord. Well, if you are like me and all you have to go on is a pretty face and a keyboard then all that is expected of you is an occasional blog post and a rare but well photo-shopped picture of yourself. Which I have done from time to time. So expectations are low. However, if you come from the group that has the looks, the hair, the talent, the body, then really all I can say to you is "God speed my child. God speed!"

I think we are afraid most not of what we can't achieve but of how much we can achieve. We are afraid more of the success than the failure. What if I make it? What if I over achieve? There is comfort in being mediocre. There's comfort in being the norm. No one expects more from you than you are giving so why not settle for what on the surface looks like happiness. But if you look within yourself, are you truly happy being the same?Being cast from someone else's mould?

I read on someone's wall today "You laugh at me because I'm different, I laugh at you because you are all the same." It may not be your fault that you are the same really. Society, environment, upbringing dictates that you be exactly the same as the person next to you on the bus. You drink the same drink, eat the same food, live in the same little boxes by the side of the street. But many of us are so dissatisfied with what we have. How we live. What we do.

Probably because for so long, you have been suppressing a potential that could make you that much more greater. The only thing that makes you...YOU. You are supressing that which makes you different because you are afraid to be different. The greatest minds in the world broke that limitation. Think about it...from the guy who created paper to the man who decided to smoke a weed in the forest. They all saw their limitations measured them against their potential and decided the potential outweighed the limitations. And that is how wheelbarrows, plastic and hip hop music were born.

Of course the biggest fear with our own power comes from the fear of failure. We are not born to be natural risk takers. We are just born to believe that we are. But the greater the risk, the greater the gain. If you can focus on the distance up instead of the drop down then imagine how much more you can achieve. Let not circumstances dictate who you are. Circumstances come and go, you however are here to stay. And you don't want to look back and think "Damn, if only..."

I'll interpret from the good book of the Lord. We don't stop walking on water because we grow weak. We start to sink because we loose focus on what is important (in Peter's case, Jesus) and start focusing on the storm around us (In our case, everything from naysayers to our own personal doubts)

In the coming year, for those who are like me and steer away from resolutions, look within yourself. Who are you? What can you achieve? What are you willing to do to realise your true potential? Are you in the right place? Of course if you think your potential is to be a serial killer, I suggest a visit to the nearest psychiatric unit and/or maybe a church highly specialised in exorcism. But the truth remains, many of us do feel like life is passing us by when truth be told, we are letting it.

Do what you have to do. Be what you need to be. If your willing to take the chance, I don't think God will let you down.


“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
by Marianne Williamson