Sunday Story...Hell

Sunday Story…Hell

Imagine it is your last day on earth. As you prepare for your final destination you see someone approaching you. As the figure nears a dawn of recognition begins. The person is you…the person you could have become. The person imbued with all the greatness, all the success, all the joy, happiness, abundance, prosperity and health you could have enjoyed. You are devastated. You are done with this mortal coil and going to your final rest knowing who you could have become.
This is one of the definitions of hell:
On your last day on earth the person you BECAME will meet the person you could have BECOME.
Think about that one. Who you are meets the person you could have been. What would that look like for you? Is who you are everything you could be? Are you doing all you can do to be all you can be?
Are you living today as the person you could become?
Really? Because I know I am not. Maybe you are, maybe not so much.
I guess the first question would be do you really care? Does it really matter to you that you are or are not living up to all the potential of who you are? Do you have any idea of the greatness that lies within you? If not, why not? Why not care about who you could become…is it too hard? Is even thinking about that shift so difficult that you can’t even look at it? Imagine that day in the future where you might have to face the you that you could have become…what would you like to say? It was too hard to be you? I just couldn’t face up to my highest and best?
Really? REAlly?
It’s too hard? Hard is getting up this morning and walking 5 miles to the river to fill a 5 gallon container with filthy water for your family to drink, cook and bathe with while knowing if you don’t return with a full container your father will beat you. That is hard. Hard is going to bed at night after another day of no food and listening to your baby sister crying weakly as she slowly slides into death from starvation. That is hard. Hard is not getting off your butt and doing the things you know you can and should and could do to fulfill your mission on earth.

It might be a little challenging to find your mission and vision but it really isn’t hard. It might be slightly daunting to start living your life like a world champion something. And no, there is no world champion couch potato or fast food eater. It isn’t hard (in perspective) to quit drinking soda, smoking cigarettes or watching hours of television. It might look hard but is it really? Do you think the person you could become is going to show up 100 pounds overweight, with a heart condition and diabetes? Or is that person in great physical condition?

Is the person you could become an emotional wreck, stained and drained by drama and trauma, ruled by their unconscious needs and desires? I think not. I think the person you could become is fully conscious of their emotional baggage and has worked every day at lessening that load in order to be an emotional giant fully in touch and aware of their desires and needs and getting those desires and needs met in the healthiest ways possible. That person is in touch with their own emotions and their own humanity and can see the good and best in each person they run into every day.

Maybe the person you could become will show up on that day, your last day defeated by the world, impoverished financially and spiritually, completely beaten down and vanquished. I think not. I think the person you could become is going to show up in abundance and prosperity, filled with spirit and spirituality, financially prosperous an example to the world of what is possible when spirit and determination meet in the soul of a person dedicated to transforming the world into a better, richer, and more abundant place.

But maybe you are going to get out of this life without meeting the person you could have become. Maybe on the day you die you won’t have to meet that person. Maybe you won’t have to die knowing all the things you could have done, been, or accomplished. Maybe you won’t mind the world being poorer for the books you didn’t write, the lessons you didn’t teach, and the music you never made. Maybe you are OK with plodding along living a life or mediocrity and quiet desperation, just another average person living another average life and dying another average death.

Really?
REAlly?
REALLY?
I mean really? You are OK with that? Go look in the mirror and tell yourself you are ok with average. You are OK with being overweight. You are OK with never learning a new thing, never learning anything new, not teaching something you know how to teach, or not singing the songs you can sing? Go ahead and go to the bathroom mirror and look carefully at the face looking back at you and tell that person you are never going to be the person you could have become.

You didn’t do it did you? Maybe you should go look in the mirror and start looking for the person you could be. Maybe you could start seeing the person you could have become right now. Maybe you should start living your life like you are the person you could have become. Maybe the person looking back at you right now is that fully aware, amazing, self fulfilled human living up to the fullest potential possible. Maybe the person you could become is sitting next to you right now and all you have to do is take a look and see them waiting for you.
So….who are you looking at in the mirror?

Namaste
John
“Teaching Focus, Inspiring Transformation”
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