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Monday, September 17, 2007
If You Are What You Say You Are....
Man, the mp3 player is the bes invention ever. I swear GOD himself must've planted that idea into man's head...
Anyway, it's almost 8:30, and I'm in the HUC, eating breakfast (mmmmm) and preparing to finish this essay I have due today. I told myself this semester that I'd sop waiting to the last minute to do stuff, but hey. I'm only human.
As I'm doing all this, I'm listening to Lupe's new song, Superstar, off his upcoming album The Cool. (Man that dude is cool). I owe Lupe a lot for giving me my new philosophy about forming relationships with people (not just relationships, but friendships and any interaction between 2 or more people). The way I do things now, is to be myself. As true to myself as I possibly can. Doing so, will bring people to me, instead of me running to them. This not only confirms the trust of those people (since they worked to get to me) AND it ensures a high caliber of relationship, because if I don't think much of them, I can just not talk to them, contrary from the the people I sought after, because me seeking them is acknowledging that I want them there.
This strategy has given me a ton of new friends and a fiance', all of which are great people who I want around me for all eternity. People seem to have better judgment in me than I do in them, so I just let the good people come. And its a great weeding out tactic...because those people who I don't reach out to...cease to reach out to me. Which lets me know they are not worth the effort in the first place. (In yo' FACE, younger versions of me).
As such...my LIFE in general is better. I am happier. Than I have EVER been.
Anyway, that was rather long-winded and not what I wanted to spend so much time on. The thing I want to talk about is the new song by Lupe. The chorus goes like this:
"If you are what you say you are,
A superstar....Then have no fear
The crowd is here and the lights are on
And they want a show...."
I was like...damn. Because for one, the singer, Matthew Santos, is really good. 2: Like anything Lupe says, I try to apply it to my life, and as such I came up with a new reason for an ego:
To be what you know you are.
Not saying much, really. But it is really profound if you really think about it. If you KNOW, without a shadow of a doubt, who you are...then you have no excuse to not be it.
Does a tree refuse to be a tree? Do birds refuse to fly? Fishes decide not to swim?
So why should a good person not be one? Why should a genius not excel? Why should a superstar not shine?
Exactly. There is nothing to be afraid of. If you are what you are, then everything you need to be that is there. So be it!
Be you, that incredibly intelligent, unbelievably creative, overly emotional, quite handsome, eremophobic dude. Its who you are, no reason to not be it.
I am who I am, and that entails me to do great things, because I am a great person. Call it egotism if you want, but at the end of the day, this is the reason I will do such great things.
It's in my nature. ^_^
-Deuces
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