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Dr. Seuss wrote the book, Oh the Places You’ll Go. It’s a book often given to young people when they graduate. The older you become, the more you can understand the deep meaning in this little children’s book. At first, it might seem to you a boring and inconsequential gift.

In the poem, sometimes the hero goes to a dark place. Sometimes in life, we come to a place where we are not fully accepted for whatever reason. Perhaps it is our appearance. Perhaps it is our history. Perhaps it is our bloodline or even generational things we have no way of controlling. Perhaps it is our beliefs, our values, our integrity, or our perception of self-worth and how we carry our outside selves in terms of style or manner of speaking.

As a young person, you are spirit first and body second. And sometimes even the problem is our spirit.

You see, sometimes you will get to a place where even bending over backwards to please everyone isn’t enough. Sometimes you will try everything in the playback to get momentum moving forward but you will be stuck getting sacked over and over again, bruised and beaten up physically or emotionally and not really even know why.

Why, God. Why is this happening…you will ask. You’ll get some answer about God giving his toughest battles to his best….and even then, after a while you’ll be like…..why? This battle package is too rough. I did not order the ultimate warrior urban jungle terrorist overthrow delta force package God. Why you doing this to me?

The problem is your spirit.

On a subconscious level, you irritate the shadow side of folks. You irritate their demons and attachments they are subconsciously carrying.

And…well…..you can’t fix that. You’re just a human.

You could be a lightworker. You could be an empath. You could be chosen. You could be a rainbow child. You could be an indigo child. You could have a mission and purpose here on Earth. And you shouldn’t let the spirit of rejection stop you.

It’s the hardest thing to do, to stay in faith and self-worth and to keep going. You can try things like moving to a new place, keeping your circle small, setting boundaries, etc. But you still gotta interact with those you would rather avoid and frankly, those you perhaps agreed in a soul contract before this lifetime to help.

Maybe you got rejected by a job or a community or a group or a church. Well, you still gotta work and you’re still under obligation to serve others in volunteering and fellowship although you don’t want to fellow at all. This is the part that’s hard.

To keep going in, even though you know you ain’t wanted.

Darkness isn’t an entity in itself. Darkness is low level light. Light is the entity.

Read that again.

Darkness is the absence of light.

To make something brighter, you gotta put in the effort. The planet is essentially a whole lot of beings choosing to go in daily to bring up the light level. Civilization is lightness overall, and lack of civilization operates in survival mode. Basically, try wandering into a forest at night alone, and you will understand darkness. There is the law of humans, and the law of nature and nature with all its beauty can be a very dark place full of predators.

St. Augustine said in the book, The City of Light, life is a continuum and people fall on this continuum based on where they currently are in life with experiences. No one is all bad or all good, they are just moving along the continuum based on experiences. So a criminal, could have at one point done miraculous things but fell on hard times due to experiences out of their control and they have the ability to move back along the contnuum…they just gotta want to.

As Andy Mineo says in the song, You Can’t Stop Me….the biggest obstacle we got in life is ourselves and our desire to move or not move, to budge or not budge…..to stay and stare at a closed door or to move on to find other open doors. You can move across the continuum throughout your life or week or even day. That’s how Augustine was able to go from what others called a reprobate lifestyle to a closer relationship with the God light or universal lightness and to become an important scholar and doctrine writer of the Church. The closer you are to meditation and prayer and spirituality, the more you naturally begin to become lighter in attitude and beliefs and behaviors.

And this can irritate subconsciously those on the continuum stuck in low vibrational energy and low light. They are stuck and just frustrated cause they want to break loose and move too, but they can’t for whatever reason due to themselves or their conscious reality and current life experience.

Basically, when you are poor, you are stuck in a poverty trap whether your fault or not (most times not your fault). So when you see others moving along the continuum in relative ease and abundance and blessings, it can be very irritating to your trapped spirit so you react in envy and angry sarcasm. But to manifest abundance, you must untrap yourself or make yourself move into better attitudes or faith or budgeting behaviors or to a better economic community. And to do this, you gotta let go of the poverty entrapment mentality of subsistence and lack. That’s what folks today call Law of Attraction.

Sometimes we come across trapped people that can’t shift their mindset. From the outside, you can’t really fix that. Someone addicted to substances….they only change when they choose to change cold turkey. It’s a mind shift only they can make.

We all got choices. You do you. I do me. If you don’t like me, well not my problem. That’s on you. But I’m still under obligation to help you if you get stuck somewhere.

I got a soul contract. And yet, I can’t waste time or valuable energy trying to move someone on the continuum that refuses to budge for years from being stuck.

Yes, as Dr. Seuss explains…yes, kid, you’ll move mountains. But only the mountains that are willing to budge.

I guess what I’m saying to young folks is to operate in hope and dreams but be aware that sometimes the mountain won’t budge and that ain’t on you or your effort. Sometimes we gotta walk away from that mountain and go find another dream or desire and that’s ok and sometimes the pivot, walking away….that’s the catalyst you needed for the mountain to finally give. Cause when you want something or someone real, real bad….that desperation is exactly what sticks it in place not moving. A butterfly or cat won’t come to you if you chase it. You gotta let it come to you first.

Sometimes you gotta let go and that is real, real hard. That’s the hardest part. But it won’t get better unless you do. The mountain, the dream, the hope…..it seems counterintuitive but you gotta give it up sometimes for it to finally fall loose. Shift your perspective.

Animosity is an unmoving non-budging mountain. It was there before you got there. It might be there very well after you leave. The only thing you can do is shift it along the continuum towards illumination. But it will be a forever job. Someone will have to pick up where you left off. And sometimes you won’t get it to budge until you start to care less and walk away which seems counterintuitive but true.

And sometimes you walk away and it still won’t unlock itself or budge. And that’s sad. Real sad. And that’s what we call tragedy. It is what it is. It will hurt for a while but the pain will eventually go away with the blessing of time.

Sometimes someone gets trapped and starts to drown in it. In the Bible, we got the story of Ruth and Naomi. They moved to Moab. Naomi got stuck in poverty with the death of her family members. Ruth chose to stay with her. Now, Ruth too is stuck in the field working like crazy. Then Boaz pulls Ruth and Naomi outta the trap too.

Life is full of heroism. It’s all around us if you just look. People everywhere pulling people outta dark tar pit traps. And that’s the good side of life. “For all its drudgery and despair, it’s still a beautiful world.” (Desiderata)

That’s my two cents on a very vague answer to a very complex issue just like a Dr. Seuss children’s poem answer to life. But sometimes the solution is the simplest one and the more convoluted the instruction manual, the more Tower of Babel gibberish fills the place. Perhaps this is too convoluted too.

Sorry about that.

I need to work on that. Being simple like the Lynrd Skynrd song.

Kiss.

Keep it short and sweet.

Or rather…

Keep it simple, stupid.

And, oh kid, by the way, the places you will go! You will grow old and look back amazed by your life adventures. Life is a fun and sometimes wild ride. So buckle up, kid, and off we go.

Wish you the best.

God bless.