The Tribemaster's Daily Mentor | Volume 1: #32

FROM: The Desk of The Chief Tribemaster

“The worst fool is an informed fool” 

— CTM

Hello Everyone

This is Edward Williams again, filling in for He Who Must Be Obeyed.

Listen up.

Pretending Not To Know Will Kill You.

You know what to do. You always do.

Right now, You know what's the next thing to do or to stop doing.

How can you pretend not to know?

Practice, probably.

Surrounded by hesitators and procrastinators 

It's easy to settle into the tired refrain of w a i t i n g

Waiting for someone

for a signal

for a sign

Waiting for perfection - as if such a thing were real

PERFECTION?

please

The very word implies a state of endedness.

A stage of completion. 

Perfection.

No such thing, darling.

Only your ideals which you constantly attempt to measure yourself up against 

How's that going?

Comparing yourself to the manipulated imagery and fake ass front stages of the glossed over insecurities that "they" hope you won't see

What about real?

When's the last time you opened your mouth to cry so hard your body shook

like a ship in a storm 

Or 

On a starry night tilted your head back and laughed at the stars

taunting you to reach them again

Just feel

Open yourself 

if you dare

Stop pretending not to know it's there

All of it 

The pain

The guilt

The blame

You don't go through life without picking up some of that stuff 

But no amount of well meaning mea culpas

Will ever destroy the fact that you are an unquenchable flame

Dim if you must 

Fitting in to survive is sometimes a useful skill

But make it a temporary camouflage okay?

Because you're not here to hide or abide by the rules someone else made up 

for their benefit

You are a Leader and a good one at that

So stop pretending not to know. 

And just go ahead and love yourself because it's the only way you can love anyone else.

Till tomorrow.

Live to learn. Give to earn.

Ed