I’ve come to the conclusion that in order to grow I need to shake my life up a little. Maybe a lot. So the question is: How?

What do I need to do in order to make me grow more, to expand myself, to develop my soul? What actions do I need to engage in which will help me understand who I am and where I am going?

I guess these are some good questions, and they may be questions everyone who feels trapped in their circumstance needs to answer. Of course I could be blowing smoke, but I don’t think so.

There is however another question which is far more important than the ones I asked above, that question is basically the granddaddy of them all:

WHY AM I AFRAID TO GROW?

It is this question which must be answered before all others. Why? Because it is this question which keeps us from growing.

Let us define some terms in the human sense of the equation. First what do I mean by grow?

We all know what the word means in the dictionary sense but maybe not in the human sense. Consider, have you ever wondered why you are where you are? That is your current status of life. Are you rich? Are you poor? Are you in the middle, that is middle class? And what is the definition of “middle class”? Upper, middle, or lower middle class? Huh?

Yeah, confusing to be sure. Then add the fact the political arena is telling you having money is evil and wrong, what happens? You become convinced that life is stagnant for you, for everyone. Heaven forbid if someone tries, and succeeds at leaving the status quo than that person had to cheat someone else out of their share of the pie.

Think of it this way: the value of Pi is:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640
6286208998628034825342117067982148086513282306647093844609550582231725359
4081284811745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344
6128475648233786783165271201909145648566923460348610454326648213393607260
2491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925903600113
3053054882046652138414695194151160943305727036575959195309218611738193261
1793105118548074462379962749567351885752724891227938183011949129833673362
4406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762931767523846
7481846766940513200056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872146844
0901224953430146549585371050792279689258923542019956112129021960864034418
1598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499510597317328160963185950
2445945534690830264252230825334468503526193118817101000313783875288658753
3208381420617177669147303598253490428755468731159562863882353787593751957
7818577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989380952572010654858632
7886593615338182796823030195203530185296899577362259941389124972177528347
9131515574857242454150695950829533116861727855889075098381754637464939319
2550604009277016711390098488240128583616035637076601047101819429555961989
4676783744944825537977472684710404753464620804668425906949129331367702898
9152104752162056966024058038150193511253382430035587640247496473263914199
272604269922796…

It never ends. But in the political view, the liberal view, Pi is ONLY 3.14 and never grows. From their viewpoint the pie of growth is fixed and can never increase.

We are told poverty and low wages is the normal way of the world, which must be true because smarter people than us tell us it is. The main stream media amplifies this belief and the entertainment industry cements this attitude in television and movie.

For the last two or three decades, twenty to thirty years for those who are public school graduates, we have been conditioned to accept that there is no hope for us, the lower class of people. We are told this by politicians, the main stream media (MSM), and Hollywood. Yet it is a message which contradicts the very meaning of life itself. A message which destroys life in every way conceivable. In other words we let other people, strangers, tell us we cannot develop. And for some reason we believe and accept their judgement as absolute fact, indisputable fact. My question is – Why?

By definition, correction, by reality, life itself means growth. You cannot have life without growth. Period. It is a law of the universe and cannot be changed by any man.

A rose is a perfect example. We have a flower seed and we put it in dirt. Then what? One of two things: 1) We water and nurture it and allow it to grow, or 2) We ignore it and allow it to be stagnant. The liberal and political viewpoint is option number 2. However that is not the end of the story. Depending upon where we plant our seed, indoors or out, means that life will make the final determination as to the disposition of the plant.

Eventually, by design or accidentally, our seed will find a way to grow. Why? Because life means growth. The seed will not be dormant forever. It may be years dormant, but not forever for life always finds a way to develop itself.

A human being is not a seed hence a human being will never be dormant for long. A few years maybe, but not a lifetime. Life forces growth no matter who, what, when, or where. This brings us full circle and back to the question: Why are we afraid to grow?

While fear and ridicule may keep us, the individual, dormant for a period of time, at some point someone will break the cycle, will break free of the fear and decide to increase life, their life. All of this is contrary to the popular belief that life is fixed against us. So when we realize we can mature and grow, that we can stretch our mind, that we can think, we begin to transverse a route towards a better life, for ourselves and our family. This is human growth.

Life requires increase and no one, nothing on this planet can keep life from increasing. Nature will not permit and nature rules all.

Democrats, liberals, and elites have it in their minuscule mind they are smarter than you, they know how to live your life better than you, and they have it as a mission to ensure you submit to their way or be destroyed. In other words: They are a special kind of stupid. And that’s giving them a lot of credit.

I know degrading individuals is really not a hallmark of professionalism but when people do not want to understand how they are being manipulated by complete strangers than what else can one call it. Forrest Gump said it best: “Stupid is as stupid does.”

The Shake-Up

I refuse to let my life be dictated by strangers who demand I bow to their will. Yet I know I need to shake my life up which brings me to this point: My shake-up needs to come from within, not without. I and I alone must be responsible for changing my attitude, my habits, and my desire for a better life. I and I alone must hold myself accountable for my action or inaction. I and I alone must be responsible for my thought process.

This is not to say I cannot and will not use outside help, I will, and I must. But using outside help does not constitute surrender, the surrender of my life to a doctrine which wants me to fail. To “fall in line” with a particular way of thinking and believing. That path is not for me and never will be.

So, I will read the books, listen to the tapes, ask the professionals (true professionals) the questions I need to ask. Then I will take the answers I find and either use them or discard them. Whatever is best for me and my situation.

I must grow, I must develop more life which means more thought process. I must, and I am assuming, responsibility for my life and my thought process. No one but me is responsible for my actions and thoughts. This is shaking things up. Yet there is one more element which must be employed in order to shake up my life and that element is WORK. Without work nothing will happen.

So what kind of work? More than I have done in the last few months. I must do more writing. I must maintain a schedule of activities and keep on that schedule. This schedule can be anything from writing a simple post to overhauling my website. Basically it is any action which will shake up the status quo I have established for myself. I must break and overcome my own status quo of ineffective action.

Can I do it? Yes. Will I do it? This question is my obstacle. I have the talent, I have the ability, I have the brain power to shake up my world, but do I have the desire to really make a difference in my own life?

That is the real question.

G.