Nobody Told Me There Would Be Days Like This

When we are children, we have no care in the world. We get clothes and shoes to wear, we get toys and more toys, we get food; provided, cooked and cleaned up all for nothing. The life of a child is carefree, for the most part. There are always putrid exceptions where children are abused, trafficked, victimized, extorted in child labor, all those ugly things. But for the most part, children are just pure, plain, unbiased, unblemished, free spirits. They live in kind of a fantasy world. There is no care of bills, no care of what the neighbors are doing, who voted for who, what the future holds, no care for money, no real issues of the world, no work, no worries. It’s a great time. And then we start to age, we start having to do chores, we start being held accountable, we start school, we start in my opinion being brainwashed from the environment we are in. If we were to grow up in Pakistan, we would have a completely different understanding of the world around us than growing up in New York, or the backwoods countryside of Alabama, or Russia, or Africa, so on and so forth. But none of that really matters as children. They are the blessed ones. Because once we grow up, “everything” changes. I was not prepared for these changes. Nobody told me there would be days like this.

We aren’t taught in school, especially now days, the basics of life. We are almost force fed what to believe. Christopher Columbus did not discover America. Jesus isn’t white nor “Christian”. Muslims are not the enemy, neither are anyone with a different color, different religion, different understanding. The enemy is ourselves. As children, NONE of these matters. It’s as we grow older that precedence’s start obliterating simple, pure freedoms of just being human. Money becomes focal, but we aren’t taught how to use money for the most part. We are in bondage to money; gotta pay the bills, the mortgage, the car payment, the phone, the make-up, the gym, the food that has proceeded to get unhealthier as we lose farms at an exponential rate and food is processed more and more. I thought life was simple playing kick the can, basketball on the garage hoop, goofing off and being stupid teenagers. I thought my world was my neighborhood, my small town laid-back easy-going existence. And then one day we wake up and reality has hit us square in the face and we spend the rest of our adult life battling, fighting, toiling, struggling, being an adult in a crazy, crazy world. I wasn’t prepared, I wasn’t taught, I wasn’t trained. We are just expected to figure it out. Nobody told be there would be days like this.

Well, what I have figured out is; it doesn’t have to be this way. We all still have a choice. We can continue on the treadmill of existence doing the same routine every day and have a braindead mentality. Or we can become more aware of the entirety of this thing called life. And let me tell you, it’s more than just paying the bills and taking that two-week vacation every year that we wish we didn’t have to return from. It’s more than what you own, it’s more than what you drive, where you live, what you eat, who your friends are, it’s much, much more. But in order to see and understand; first we have to admit it. Admit that nobody told us there would be days like this. That’s the 5 o’clock alarm going off. Wake up, hellooooooooo, it’s time to rise and shine, it’s a brand-new day and times a ticking faster than you realize. Yep, nobody told me there would be days like this. I had to get life smacked many times over to understand the harsh reality of living on this gravity filled planet. And then I had to understand that I can rise above it. I can fly. The toughest part is to break the chains of bondage that limit us from doing so. That nobody told me there would be days like this is just one of those chains, one of those chains holding an anchor buried deep that seems impossible to let loose. But I assure you, it can be done. The frustration is real, the suffering is real, the hardship is real, but so is freedom, so is peace and so is harmony for we can’t have all the dark without the light. Children live in the light, children live in absolute freedom and so too as adults can we. Look past the ignorance, look past the ego, look past money, power, corruption and stop and smell the flowers. Step outside of the box and explore the world of imagination, of unlimited potential. Nobody told me there would be days like this can become your battle cry and then life can become a completely different journey.