Know Thy Self

Since I didn’t post last week I’m doing another post to make up for it, a continuation from the last one.  I went to class Tuesday morning expecting the same boring lecture along with slides or video that we always get on Tuesday mornings. Little did I know what was about to come a knock me for a loop, was the best lecture that I had heard in a long time.

Everything spoke to me as if Mrs. Bryant felt my body cry for inspiration, she unloaded not the greatest speech in the world but the right amount of inspiration accompanied with some fire to be lit under my ass. “Know thy self” she said as if she was directly talking to me leaning back in my chair at the end of the class room to make me sit up at attention. She told us about her past, her experiences and it wasn’t in the same way a teacher usually tries to tell you how it is. It was different she spoke to us like she was one of us.

She told us about her fears, and how we all share a certain kind of genius thats separate from the academic genius. That the type of genius we had was the special something inside us that we had to share with the world. Then she started asking us questions like who are we? and why do we want to do what we want to do? She listed things on the board that everyone needs to do.

1. Show up everyday
2. Show up no matter what
3. Stay on the Job
4. Here to work for the long haul
5. Master your technique
6. Ask for help
7. Have a sense of humor

All things that I used to do just out of habit of being a fighter, not a traditional fighter, but someone that fought through the struggles of life. She talked to us about Resistance, she said something like if creation was God then destruction was the devil, but that wasn’t the important part that caught my attention it was when she corrected herself. Destruction is still apart of the cycle but resistance that nothingness was the devil.

I went home that day in a different mood, and a new view on the way my everyday life was going to be. One thing I had as a kid was the never say die attitude, never give up in the face of fear event though I didn’t have much experience. Now that I’m older and have more knowledge and more experience I just need that killer instinct that I had when I was younger.