I had a dream the other night that I had a full-blown text conversation with one of my mentors. I hit the dude up to continue that convo and he had no idea what I was talking about! Shit happened in my REM mode, not in real life!! What is the point of telling you this story, you ask? Chasing your dreams drives you up the wall, man! BUT, that’s a good thing because you get a fresh viewing angle on the scene.
Let me explain a tad. The amount I have grown as a human after 5 years of channeling all of my personal and professional life learnings into building Imperfects has literally made me a semi-superhuman. You ever wonder how the Zen Monk just gets cut off in traffic or in line and smiles and buys the wrongdoer a coffee or sends a big smile, instead of getting road rage? I spent my whole life trying to figure that out, because I always wanted to get proper WWF on a MF who takes what’s mine, right? Turns out, to find that Dalai Llama-like zen, all I had to do was sacrifice everything to go after what I believe in. I’m telling you, I’ve found ways to reinvest my faith in humanity after getting burned a million different ways—all because I have faith in my work. I have nothing to hide so I have no fear. I never lose because it's not about winning or losing, it's about proof and resilience and persistence and TIME. And I’ll tell you why.
Time eventually allows for proof; proof takes time; resilience is synonymous and necessary to define time in any form; therefore, persistence is key and “proof” is the product. Ultimately, we are all chasing, proof: Proof of self, proof of concept, proof of everything. Well, I am here to break it to you. It ain’t easy to achieve proof, but it is damn well worth chasing because of one thing that comes during the process of chasing it: believing in yourself. I am pretty sure believing in yourself is the secret to life; it opens up the pathway to honesty. It will make you stare in the mirror and talk to yourself about the hardest shit ever and then, in turn, make it easy to be honest with everyone around you. Fortunately or unfortunately, that’s what makes a superhuman these days—internal, personal honesty that can ultimately be applied at every level of the human experience.
That said, I’ll keep it short and sweet this go around and go with the Underground Poet energy to sum it all up. It's been a while since I’ve written a poem off the top and shared it with the Imperf Fam out loud on a Little Friday, so please, allow me to lean in and share some beautifully harsh realities about my struggle with growth and how it applies to my life approach. I hope it helps you score a different viewing angle on the overall scene you’ve got going on right now.
