What an Irony!

The greatest irony is this: expecting results for the work you didn't put in. Put in the work, the results show. Pick any area - relationships, health and fitness, academia, spiritual, financial, you name it. When you allow yourself to defy your inherent desire for comfortable and easy, you eventually sweat and grind until you almost pass out. At this point, you are made or marred. Three things happen at this stage: one, you either continue with the same intensity unbothered by the apparent or seeming alienation; or two, you get comfortable with what you have achieved, get comfortable with that amount of pain and sweat and make it your norm, without thinking of what could happen if you went further than this or that. In other words, you get complacent; or three, you get scared and throw in the towel.
At one point or another, you will come to the bloody crossroads, and choose something. You may preserve your blood and sweat, but that is too easy. You may choose the daily grind, and that is hard. Well-meaning people, in your personal circle also known and friends and family, will do their best to stifle your dreams and goals, especially if they feel left behind. It is a tough one because you will have to consider so many things. At the very best, if you stay where they want you to stay, will you become the best that you can be? Will you be able to take them along with you, if you stay there?




How useful can you be if you don't deny your pleasures for today, risk one form or another of alienation, just to become exceptional and useful and valuable?

It is ironic the expectations without a conducive internal environment. An African proverb goes: If there is no enemy within, the enemy outside cannot harm us. Ergo, considering that, it is ironic when your focus is solely on those around you with zero introspection.
Heal yourself first. Develop yourself first. Put in the work first. The results will be loud and clear. You won't have to say anything. You just have to do something.

XOXO,
JustEmmy

#NoteToSelf

Blessing in Disguise

By definition, a blessing in disguise is an apparent misfortune that yields good results in the end. 

2020 is a blessing in disguise. 

We have the greatest test on our hands. 

We have the greatest destruction at our doorsteps. 

We have the greatest misinformation neither our ears have ever heard nor our eyes ever seen. 

Amid this quagmire,something else is happening despite the devastation waged by Rona. 

Things that seemed impossible, are suddenly becoming feasible.

Suddenly what we thought was more important, and without it we couldn't survive, is being challenged day in and day out. We are practically forced to reconsider our priorities, to analyse our lives and identify what really matters, what really is worth fighting for. 

We are on the default survival mode. 

Can we say that the progress  we have made as individuals, institutions, and nations will outlive the pandemic? I really hope so, and even do better.

Can we say that we would continue to consider the bigger picture as we make decisions and plans at every level and in whatever capacity we are making them?

Another awesome feat in this 2020 is the universal spiritual awakening that is taking place. It is so beautiful to watch the humans rising up, emotionally, intellectually and spiritually, taking advantage of the situation to get to place they have never been; to become what they never thought they could become. To become what they have never been. 

When we are finally spiraling out of control in our own efforts, then God takes control. we just have to believe and be ready, because our salvation is near.

One thing to hold on to is that God is faithful. 

Consider this: 

Romans 8:35-39..... 

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

 As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Till later,
JustEmmy