Maya Angelou Had it Right.

Dec

Impromptu Letters | everyday hero, freedom of speech, maya angelou, sacred feelings, self respect

“If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.” Her words ask us how others are made to feel in our midst. Is there a sense of elated freedom in your words, actions or behaviour? Glance away from the public eye, become the everyday hero from the inside out as Maya Angelou did herself. She may not have set that as her goal, but accomplish it she does nonetheless. Do we aspire or insight, inflame or introduce?

Insipid comments always seem to concern others.

Look what they are doing, saying and so forth. We bury our mind with nothing more than daily dribble instead of focusing on making a positive, uplifting difference instead of indifference. While the trials we read, hear and discuss may move us into action and call forth both support and condemnation, we cannot allow ourselves the luxury of letting our own life slip by in their wake. If we believe in an idea, a constitution, charter and so forth, we act within the peace in which it was inspired, nothing short of it. If we do otherwise, we enact a breach of trust, confidence and above all else a small measure of self sustaining ego worship, nothing more.

What we focus on is what we move with

How is it that some seem to focus on what they can do with their day while others manage to let the day slip away without so much as a calm moment? You can feel the negativity rise above the articles they pay tribute to, as emotion spills instead of sprouts. Like tissue paper, negative media tears away at our ability to inspire. One by one the box empties. Regardless of whether these incidents are atrocious bulldozed in front of us, they only live if we give them our time.

Isn’t it time you asked how freedom works?

Freedom isn’t about rights or privileges or the cornerstones of one religion or another. It is about the sacred feelings each and every one of us carry forward in our day. How do you behave indicates what you hold sacred. If you believe freedom is a sacred phenomenon, then act upon it with dignity, self respect and without complaint or complicity.

With freedom comes responsibility

If our forefathers and mothers were to come back from past wars and examine how we as a society are behaving today, would they be proud of YOUR actions today? Did you uplift another human being? Or did you divide and conquer through your words and actions?

Freedom does not deny it applies and applauds.

Sailing ahead is not about winning a war to ensure others enact your ideals or beliefs. If you believe that you have much to learn about freedom my friends. Moving forward comes with the understanding that we are all cut from the same cloth, we simply choose to wear it differently. Why complicate your life with overtures that depreciate your own essence? “The everyday hero applauds others for loving acceptance. He or she knows we all come in and leave the world in the same manner – how we uplift, inspire and bridge the gap between is what matters most.”