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Welcome back to another double dose edition of the one and only The Beat Within. It’s OT reporting live to you guys from the land of hot lava where the earth shakes and quakes, Managua Nicaragua. Once again, I am blessed with the opportunity to bring you guys my take on one of my favorite topics of the week.
That important conversation really stood out to me, and it stood out for a variety of reasons that I’m about to get into. The actual topic is about choosing someone that you would like to have an important conversation with, not an actual important conversation that someone decided to give to you.
I thought hard about this topic because there are many people that come to mind that I would like to have an honest conversation with, but you know nowadays, nobody likes hearing the truth. But when I think hard about it, I try to make sure that anyone that I converse with, anyone who I come in contact with, that I try to be sincere to the best that I can.
I’m a go ahead and say the person that I would pick to have this honest conversation with would be my mom. The reason I say this is because I can’t have an honest conversation with my mom. Because she has personally told me that she’s never wrong. She’s always right. You know, those are pretty ignorant words for a sixty year old person to say.
That means that anything I say, will just go in one ear and out of the other. But here’s the gist of it, I need her to listen to me. Because I need her to know that she is loved, and part of loving someone is being honest with them to let them know when they’re in the wrong.
I know she’s been through a lot in her life. Which is part of the reason why she’s so angry at the world and taking it out on whomever she sees fit. But that’s not the right way to deal with her anger and pain. She’s a very angry person. I know that she’s stressed, but we can’t let the adversities of life bring your spirits down.
We weren’t brought into this world with a silver spoon and on the contrary as you may believe, life doesn’t owe you anything. You have to be grateful no matter what circumstances you find yourself in. If you’re not at the place you want to be in life, 99.99 percent of the time it’s because you put yourself there.
She thinks that the world has done her wrong. She thinks that the world is against her. She thinks my aunt, and uncle, conspire against her, to curse her so she won’t be successful in life. That’s far from the truth. She thinks that I hate her, which is far from the truth.
She thinks I’m a bad son, which hey I’m not perfect, nor great, but I don’t think I’m that bad. Her thoughts can be all over the place at times, and maybe I should give her credit for being honest, but is she really being honest with herself? I really doubt that you can be honest with yourself when you tell yourself a lie and believe it.
I wish I could tell her that she needs to be more grateful for what she has in her life. I wish I could tell her that she needs to let go of all the resentment that she has bottled up inside of her. I wish I could tell her that holding in all that resentment only hurts her spirit.
I wish I could tell her that whatever energy you put out into the world, is the same type of energy she will receive back. Quite frankly, she won’t listen. Every time I try to have this conversation with her, it ends up in an argument. With me talking to myself for next thirty seconds after she hangs up.
You can feel the vibes on someone if they’re negative or positive. Some people emanate an aura so positive that every minute you pass with them, passes so fast, that you never want to leave their side. You chill with that person for an hour, and it feels like ten minutes. That’s how I feel Dave was, our founder of The Beat Within.
He was just so intent on inspiring you to do better, that it would strike a chord within you. His message was simple. You can do better. Believe in yourself. We would have conversations for like an hour and it felt like time would pass by too quick. Sometimes you need someone in your corner to help guide you like that.
He believed and I think that’s the most important part of life in everything that we do. It starts off with a belief, and by believing it will trickle down to your actions. If each one of us does better, our hoods, our communities, our cities and our lives will be better all together.
That’s why it’s so important to listen to people that are trying to help you. Don’t push them away because you think you’re right all the time. One day, it will be you having that important conversation with someone that you want to help out.
I will do my best to continue to have that important conversation with my mom, and anyone else that I care for, so they can do better. They may not listen right now, but but we have to keep trying. Dave did that for me, and it’s time for me to repay it forward and put my belief into someone else. Never stop believing! One love to all you readers. I love you mom!
Long live David and The Beat keeps going and going…
Thank you for those beautiful words of wisdom, we can all benefit from an intentional practice of gratitude. When the struggles of life get really hard, sometimes we think the world is against us, but maybe if we can learn to shift that panic feeling, if we can somehow find a tiny calm within the storm. Perhaps we can start with gratitude for anything, the sunshine, a puffy cloud or a cup of coffee. Maybe you can start or end your day by trying to find three things to be thankful for? Here at The Beat Within we are so thankful for you all the writers and readers of this magazine. Here we create our own Beat Within community. We support each other in our struggles and by sharing our stories together we help ourselves to carry the burdens together.