A Desire to Aspire
1/23/2013
Shelley Renzi
For those of us who have been wandering, lost in the woods of the world, wondering if we can purvey something better for those that will come after us: The answer is yes! A desire to aspire is the spark that ignites the beginning of a change to how things have been and pushes us to seek a better way of being. Once you accept things are not as they should be or could be, you have already begun the walk down the path toward how they will become.
I have felt broken. No one is really broken but I have believed I was. I have been lost in the woods wondering how and if things could ever change. When we are, as we are, for as long as we have been, we struggle to envision anything different, so it isn't easy to look beyond and conceive of what could be. If you could, what would you see?
A world where people care before they ignore? A world where we have the foresight to grasp the reverberated effects of what we are doing, as we are doing it...giving us the fortitude to restrain and control our animalistic tendencies to perpetrate pain in order to gain strength? Can you picture a world evolved to positive over negative? Integration over elimination? Recycling over ending? Respect and thoughtfulness over judgment and disgust? Love over hate? Compassion over anger? Peace over fear? Kindness over cruelty?
Dr. MLK Jr had a dream, that all people should be treated fairly. He came from a place where he was hated because he was born the wrong color. He was pushed down and trampled because ignorance and might reigned over tolerance. Did he deserve to be so wronged? Does anyone born into ugliness deserve their fate? The earth we are born upon, is perfect in every way fathomable. It is self-sustaining and creates the exact right balance of atmosphere, oxygen, temperature, growth, energy and recyclability to produce, and maintain life. The animals granted the right to inhabit the earth are afforded the same abilities as the earth itself. As self-proclaimed rulers of the earth and it's animals, humans have the extraordinary advantage of learning and understanding. This means we can alter the way we choose to live, based on what we have learned and experienced. The earth and it's animals continue in the cyclical phases they have always followed, while humans can grow in understanding exponentially. We have the ability to evolve in a lifetime, v. an existence, and each subsequent generation is cumulatively more capable of expanding in all realms conceivable. As a race and as individuals we possess greatness.
When we chose to allow negativities to create veils of distraction we cannot see beyond, we stunt our goals toward all we have the potential to become. We all have a desire to aspire to something better than we are. This is the greatness within pulling us forward. When we aspire to be better than what came before us, the power we possess is based in goodness and therefore stronger than any other power. What we chose to follow, share and be more in tune with returns to us tenfold. Should we pervade and follow negative desires, negativity will echo back to us. Should we chose to attain positivity, through learning, understanding and sharing the goodness in life, like forgiveness, compassion, peacefulness and love - this is what will come back to us tenfold.
Where is your desire to aspire today? Is it pushed to the side, until you have "time" to attend to it? Is it front and center in your heart, your goals and your life… right where it should be? Is it too hard to peel away the layers of badness that block you in and hold you down to allow yourself to wonder where it might be? What it might be? How it could change you?
Can you take a moment today and another moment tomorrow and one more the next day to consider what you aspire to? It is not in sitting idly by, while the whole of your life passes, to find you have left only less for the next… but instead to come to accept all that is, see what could be improved and strive to alter things for the better that utilizes the greatness you possess.
The universe asks us to use the gifts we have all been imbued with to alter our world from negativity. We have each received life, love and learning. How can you begin using your gifts to aspire to what you desire?
