Stop Hiding in the Dark and be somebody.

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(ThyBlackMan.com) You can be somebody..

Every word in these blogs is written with the hope that you will read something that will spark something in you. I am trying to get you to see you. Because right now you are in a dark place, you are like a person in a bathroom with the lights off and the door closed trying to get yourself ready in the mirror. You know you are there but you cant see yourself, yet you are still trying to get yourself together so you come out and be presentable with sleep still in your eyes, Slob still on your face eyelashes crooked, because what you are trying to do is nearly impossible.

I am trying to show you how to turn the light on so you can see yourself and that you can come out and be recognizable and presentable to the rest of us because we need to see you, not this messed up version of yourself that does not allow us to see you clearly. And end your frustration with this version of you. Why? Because you have had desires and plans and ideas in your life, about who and where you wanted to be at a certain point and some how you lost them and got distracted and you may be thinking it’s too late. But it’s not.They really haven’t gone anywhere they have just been buried along with the real you under a whole lot of crap that you just really need to find a constructive way to get over.

You came into the world for a reason, all of us have a mission or purpose that we came into the world to do. You have a uniqueness that is only you, a gift that is only yours that no one else can do and it’s your greatness its going to leave a big mark on the world when you find it and do it. And you might not believe that about yourself but it’s true. You did not survive conception with billions of other sperm that were with you trying to reach one egg in a hostile environment for nothing. You didn’t survive nine months of pregnancy, then the process of birth for nothing.. You didn’t miscarry. You were not still born. Countless millions of others were but are alive so you survived for a reason and it’s not random it was calculated. Your mother and father coming together to produce you is not as random as you think no matter what the circumstance looked like to you or them God was involved at some point.

Now for the religious folk reading this I want you to think about something. Jesus performed many miracles according to the bible in front of the disciples, he fed the multitudes with a few loaves of bread and a couple of fish, he healed the sick, restored sight to the blind, raised the dead to life. They walked with him all the way up to the betrayal some followed him to the crossed and witnessed his burial. But when they seen him again after the resurrection they didn’t recognize him, at first. That’s you. You are the great miracle worker that we don’t recognize and can’t see because you are stuck in your past and what happened to you and what happened to you or what failures you had, maybe you didn’t graduate from high school, you dropped out of college, you haven’t been the best parent. This is what you are talking about. But when are you going to talk about what you are going to do to make yourself into that somebody that you know you really are!

You are in good company when you talk about not being recognized and people not knowing who you are. But the question is what are you going to do in order to make yourself known that you are somebody and you are something and that you are worth it. What are you going to do differently?

I don’t write for vanity, or for pay, you don’t see any ads on here. I write because I have seen people overcome difficult things in life and serious, I have seen people overcome cancer, but I have also seen them die, I have seen mothers who have lost children and children who have lost parents and these are difficult things. Life is going to be difficult, but you can’t stop living you have to fight or give in and be defeated. You cant just cope with your pain because then it’s just a matter of time before you are defeated you have to beat the struggle in your life.

If you don’t beat it then it beats you there are no ties, either you overcome struggle or struggle overcomes you. You can pick up the alcohol, the drugs, you can get turned up, you can hit the clubs and they can play the music as loud as can be to drown out your thoughts and troubles and sorrows for those few moments but at the end of the night it’s all right back in front of you again. And you must ask yourself a question. What am I going to do differently? Because to do the same thing over and over again expecting a different outcome is insanity. Are you insane? Have you lost your mind in this struggle? Have you become so irrational that most of what you are doing in your own life no longer makes ant sense? And if the answer is yes to any of these questions is yes. Then it’s time for you to stop and rethink your life and figure out something different. Not later, but now, don’t wait. If you know the right thing to do then do it now. And don’t take shortcuts, take the hard road not the easy one, that’s the one you been on. No. Take the difficult path and put one foot in front of the other one step at a time. Just keep stepping forward and not backward.

You can be somebody, but until you come out of the dark. Until you come out of nothingness, then the somebody you can be will not be seen. It is your choice. Who do you want to be? Only you have the ability to answer that question and then make it a reality.

So now make your own reality. It’s on you.

Push on through the struggle.

Staff Writer; Brother Tremikus Muhammad

Official website; http://brothertremikus.blogspot.com/

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Peerless Perception says:

June 16, 2014 at 9:42 pm

Thank you for this piece Brother. It is incumbent upon us to OCCUPY our minds 1st. The revolution will be televised between your ears. Although the previous statement is contrary to the belief system of today, there is still hope for today’s youth even though we live in a world where Twitter is the base for common sense and Facebook sets the standard for friendship. The recent past “Occupy Wallstreet,” Jay-Z‘s “Occupy All Streets,” and a nameless organization that wants to “Occupy Da Hood,” supports the aforesaid statements and highlights the need for a revolution of the mind in that the original movement had no clear-cut demands, Jay Z’s moment, not movement, was motivated by capitalism, and the latter was a senseless congregation that lacked true depth of cause.

As the child of a Civil Rights participant, well versed and participated in civil disobedience, knowledgeable of and participated in college sit-ins, and a historian of the “Freedom Riders” movement, I am certain that the thought process and current behavior does not jibe well with the trailblazers of the 60’s. However, I believe that those pioneers would concur that these new millennium children possess the mental dexterity, but lack the passion and fortitude to champion a movement by themselves.

It was once said that we should seek “the seasoned” for counsel and the “the young” for leadership. Due to the present lack of intellect and scholastic achievement, it would not be wise to place the youth in a position to lead. Moreover, it would be an “exercise in futility” because the present level of incompetence deems it so. Martin Luther King once said that if we allow the current condition to stay as it is, then your silence could be construed as betrayal. Although we’ve built and allowed our children to live under a “guarded canopy,” there has to be ramifications for their actions and boundaries that cannot be breached. We have to hold one another accountable and not allow certain learned behaviors in our communities. It is understandable that some concessions and allowances have to be granted, but only to a degree.

The vast majority of our neighborhoods are the epicenter of bad behavior and our children in these neighborhoods are the poster children for crime and drug abuse. The increasing number of criminals and criminal behavior in the Black community proves that politicians, pundits, pontificators, and prognosticators are only interested in allowing it to continue because it is “big business.” The prison system, illegal drug trade, and the gentrification of down trodden communities are some of the today’s most lucrative businesses for people involved in the stealth destruction of minority people. The only way to thwart the efforts of the people who hold the reins is by displaying a sustained effort of empowerment and improvement in our communities.