Can I truly chill in a time of chaos? This is the day to start this vlog-gas with Anthony Fungini-9. To chill, to be gentle, to have a mild, meek, and kind nature. And in this world, a strong hand, with a soft touch.
Rudyard Kipling's if, an excerpt, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you but make allowance for their doubting too. If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it at one turn of pitch and toss and lose and start again at your beginnings and ever breathe a word about your loss. Can I truly chill in a time of chaos, of opposition and of war? Well, think about it, it wasn't the greatest superhero, Superman, I think we'd all agree.
Inside that superhero, the mild, mannered Clark Kent, he wasn't one or the other, he was both. I think a key to a resounding yes to this question, can I truly chill in a time of chaos lies in the power of choice. When to be the mild-mannered Clark and when to be the overpowering, resolute, uncompromising. And yes, violent, super-map.
I recall this time, driving home when I was much, much younger, unmarried. It was raining, and then right in front of me, I see this motorcycle abruptly slowing down. And so I press the brakes, but my car skid, I hit the motorcycle, both the motorcycle and the rider fly. And the rider falls flat on his back.
I'm somewhere else and I ask myself, is he dead? With whatever courage, I'm gonna be care. I still had in me, I got out of the car, ran to him, and when I was about a couple of feet away, he jumps up and says, whoo, that was the third time that happened to me this month. He was a stuntman.
And he landed on his backpack, which he had put there because it's happened several times. Amazing. I was dying and he was chilling. See, it's not in the disaster.
I think one thing I picked up from that, it's in our design. We are human beings. In this guy's case, he was a stuntman. The highest form of creation, yes you are, created not just with a command to rule over the rest of creation, the rest of the earth, but also the ability to do so.
But do we choose to act based on our core design, our core being, or our compromised upbringing? Stephen King, monsters are real, he said, and ghosts are too. They live inside us, and sometimes they win. I wonder if you'll agree with me.
The people we look up to, not the power of their success testimony, but the sincerity behind their apology. And now for a moment, think about it. What if the people around you feel the same way about you, the way you feel about these people you look up to? Make that choice and make it today.
James Pap, and I quote, it has been well demonstrated that you can change your life by changing your attitude towards it. People ask, how is life treating you? A better question is, how are you? Treating life.