“Do you think you’re better than us?! That always results in failure. It’s impossible for you! Live the life that we’ve lived, it’s more secure.”
Have you ever heard these exclamations from people around you? I can tell you that I have.
The one difference is that I answered as follows, “I’m better than you because I chose to be. It’s impossible for you but not for me because I know who I am and what I want. I already know that if I live your life, I will kill myself before thirty. Failure happens to those that don’t know what they’re doing.”
I ignored their pathetic cries and lowly recommendations and stuck to my guns and now I’m living my dream life and I’m peaceful and happy.
It’s amazing.
But this post isn’t going to delve into this, it’s going to talk about the phenomenon that happens next.
“Don’t forget about us. Remain humble. We will always be here for you. I always knew you had it in you.”
(Same people by the way.)
Have you ever heard these ones before? If you haven’t it’s alright it’s just the next stage. Some people that achieve success fail in this stage, so I’ll tell you what I answered.
“I can’t forget you if you’re beside me, come stand by my side and rise to the same height as me. Excessive humility is what kept me there so no thank you, I will live my life however I please. You were never there when I had nothing, so you won’t be there if I have nothing in the future. No, you couldn’t recognize a diamond even if it hit you on the head, you never believed in me you believed in my results.”
The ultimate teacher, life itself, proved to me that I was right. In the beginning people complained saying that I was too harsh and I became isolated, but I’ll tell you a little secret.
Isolation happens so that the people that are worthy find space to fit into your new life.
If you fail to answer with firmness, you’ll have flies and bugs on your windshield while you try to navigate your success. Remove them and add passengers to your car that actually pull their weight. Trust me your life will be all the better for it.
You see the finest of lines is one that you cross once your external world finally takes the image of who you know yourself to be. It’s so thin that you might not realize you’ve crossed it, so you keep acting like you’re not there yet. Like I wrote in my book, “The soul knows, the body evolves, and the mind is always the last to realize it’s already become.”
You’re already there so act like it.
I will now share a little story, altered to fit our lesson’s purpose.
There is a myth of a native girl who was invited to play with a porcupine. The porcupine led her through the wilds and then finished by climbing a tall pine tree that reached towards the sky. The girl followed but was stopped by her relatives who called her back to ground. The girl ignored them and chose to follow the porcupine. The people below kept appealing to her sense of fear, the dangers of going so high but the girl ignored them. She climbed so high that she reached the sky. At one specific point the villagers couldn’t differentiate the girl from the stars above and their fearmongering cries turned into claims of godhood. The girl had gone up and became one with the heavens and the porcupine who was in reality a god had taken her as his divine wife. The villagers did what mortals do. Instead of climbing alongside her they excused themselves saying that she was chosen, divine from the beginning, special. The girl kept looking down and aiding them hoping that one day they would recognize their own divinity and join her up in the heavens.
The girl was still the same. It’s just that she acted on her potential. She was a villager and god at the same time. So, the moral of the story is…
Learn to thread through the finest of lines.
