Unchartered Territories 🏴‍☠️

 New Horizons.

    After spending much of my time planning out my next move, I’ve come to realize that action is the only step necessary. 

    Most people spend their lives, trying to think they way into success. They spend days, weeks, months, years, sitting around and trying to map out their entire lives ahead of them. And what happens? Everything they have planned goes straight to hell. There’s an age old saying which says, man makes plans, and God laughs.

    Action is the remedy to most of our problems in life. The sitting around and waiting is the source of most suffering. Waiting for something to come, which never does, can kill a man and his spirit. The reality is, success only belongs to those who are willing to reach out and take it. Those who are no longer afraid to sit back and wait for all the chips to fall into their lap. Those who are willing to risk it all, in order to achieve something most cannot even fathom. Those who know that their actions will lead them to roads very few have ever travelled.

    Man suffers more in his head than he does in reality. If that is the case, I must be pretty good at suffering by now. My head is a jungle. A never-ending labyrinth with twists and turns at every single corner. Perhaps the best way to solve said labyrinth is to air it our in the open instead. To pull it out of my head, and allow it into the Aether. Allowing the Universe to do its magic, and show me how great life can be. Who knows, perhaps others also share my struggles, making us all one and the same after all.

    The idea of helping people is a great thought which keeps me up at night. The idea that I am able to affect a form of positive change into the lives of others is definitely the goal. Even if my work is able to help bring joy or clarity to a single individual, then I would consider all the work I’ve done to be worth it. Change can be much like a spark from a match, once struck, it is hard to put out. The ability to help or free someone form their own chains is the ultimate goal, to help build and create a clear, better future.

    A lot of people struggle with the same issues we all hold close to our chest. We, especially as men, have a tendency to never talk about anything with anyone because we are taught fairly early on that nobody cares. And truth be told, they don’t. They do not give a rats ass about anything we have going on in our lives. Which is fine. Once we are willing to accept the harsh truth, and face the music, then we are on the path to being free. To no longer care about what others think and how they perceive us. How they no longer hold power over our thoughts and actions in which we hold dear.

    Ask me if I’d rather a group of 100 friends, or 10 brothers, and I’d chose the brothers every single time. Ask me the same question with 5 brothers instead, and I’d still chose it. Friendship is for women and the weak. For those who wish to walk on eggshells and be agreeable with everybody and everything in order to maintain a calm, non-confrontational approach to life. I’ve tried it before, when I was younger. The non-confrontational approach slowly kills whatever part of a man you have left inside. It eats away at your soul, as you dismiss the things which bother you, in exchange for a “friendship” from men who would never even bleed for your cause. Pathetic.

    Moving forward, it’s important to understand that people will not like you. That they will not want to be associated with you, out of fear for themselves. Fear for standing alone, and being targeted. Fear of walking the valley of the shadow of death, because they fear the evil. We do not fear it anymore. We have come to understand that the only thing to fear, is fear itself. That we must be willing to confront all the evil in the world, and destroy it, rather than make peace with it. King Agamemnon from the Trojan wars famously says that peace is for the women and the weak. I agree.

    Brothers are the team which help change the world. Men who are willing to go to war and die on their swords, in order to create a better world. The idea that we are in charge of our own future is a very powerful sentiment. It allows even the weakest of men a route of redemption, to help those who come after them. The ability to stand tall, look evil in its eyes, and go out swinging, is every man’s dream. I spend most of my nights living in my head thinking of that exact scenario. Oh how we all long to be legends like the heroes of old.

    Overall, the ball is rolling. Action has begun. The potential is limitless. The moon is not a goal, but rather a marker for something which lies much deeper out in space. The galaxy, nay, the Universe, is for the taking. God has called upon us to rise up from our seats, and to rightfully claim what is ours. To extend our hands, and reach into the unknown. To trust his judgement, as we navigate unchartered territories. 

To fear no evil,

as we walk through the valley of the Shadow of Death.

        Glory Be,

                    Amen.