The Reality Slap
The problem is me.
It always has been me. I just never realized it until much later on. What happens when a man forgets why he started everything in the first place?
He loses his vision and becomes useless. Even worse, he can’t tell you where he veered off course since it happened so long ago. The reality slap is the hardest one to take.
It’s the one that shows you how imperfect you really are, how blind you’ve really been for so long.
The reality slap makes you question your own motivations. Why did I do it this way? What is my real reason for doing it? Who am I doing it for? Reality has slapped me…hard.
Over the years I have tried to be everything to everybody. Everyone had a piece of me but never a whole me and I couldn’t figure out why nothing seemed to work or last for very long. Reality has slapped me hard…
The reality slap will teach you how useless you have been.
The reality slap will show you how much you need to change…now.
I’ve been spread too thin over the years and this has made me useless to any one person or cause. For who can attain true effectiveness while giving only a piece of himself to as many causes as possible?
And for what? To please everyone?
To make them happy?
Funny…the reality slap will teach you that they are never happy with you and, much worse, they can care less how much you sacrified for their benefit. It teaches you that they really didn’t need what they say they needed.
They needed a full you but you’ve altered your “you” to “fit” the demand, yet finding out that the full you was never what they wanted or needed in the first place. Reality has slapped you.
If the whole you wasn’t what they were looking for then the reality slap tells you that you gave yourself to the wrong person or persons.
Family, friend or business associate…it really doesn’t matter. Anytime you break yourself apart to have someone remain a factor in your life, you will be useless to that person and any other aspects of life. True usefulness is being you and letting them accept who you are.
Or keep walking…the reality slap.
It’s time for a change to be made but the only way you will ever see the light so that you can change…is if you allow reality to slap you without you slapping the reality back.
