Sooooo…
I had a “Near Death Experience”….
The floating out…
The tunnel…
The
light….
The Welcome…
The Review…
The presence…
And then…
I came back here….
I came back to…
Shit in my pants…
Pee between my pockets….
When I say, “I got the shit kicked out of me…”
It’s true…
That’s what happens, when you have a bad day at work in my old occupation…
Meanwhile…
Seems like I imagined something….
That had me leave “the next
adventure” for a bit later…
And that had me return and have a few NEW adventures here on planet earth….
And since then, I’ve had quite a few adventures….
I’ve lived in the woods, with next to nothing…
I’ve lived with some fascinating folks, who gave me next to everything…
I’ve been married…
I got divorced…
One
day out of the blue…
I met someone lovely from “far far away” and then…
I found myself moving around the world…
You’ve seen our garden..
You’ve shared in our smiles…
Over the years…
I walked away from what the doctors considered impossible…
Scoliosis - PTSD - Nerve Damage - Hip Replacement…
But I digress…
The “near death”experience people are fascinated about…
That just took a few moments…
Back in late October of 1989….
I was a young handsome fella back then…
Just getting started…
Having it all come to a crashing sudden end..
(Get why I love this stuff?)
Because. I’m a different kind of handsome fella now….
I’ve got a few grey hairs…
And a few wrinkles too…
Wisdom wounds is what one the old ones
called them…
And so since you are here…
On planet earth…
And since you are here, reading my ramblings…
I invite
you - to do two things…
I invite you to embrace your uniqueness….
To allow yourself to “be different” - to dance the dance only you can dance…
As scripture says, “stop hiding your light under a bushel
basket”…
Seems to me…
That you came here to dance a dance…
To dance a dance to the song only you can sing…
And if you don’t - then you
and your family and your tribe - starve…
And starving has you settle for junk food….
Because you believe - and behave - as if - you - are junk…
Think about it….
If vegetarians eat vegetables….
If fleshatarians eat flesh….
What does junk eat?
Notice this goes WAY BEYOND taking a “mental diet”…
This goes back to WHO
ARE YOU…
And you aren’t junk…
You came here to eat SOUL FOOD…
And here you are…
Enjoy it!
But I
digress….
Because the second request I have for you is…
Take the time to REALLY live…
It’s closely related to the first request - but it’s not the same….
Just like how I am
closely related to my cousin Tommy…
But we aren’t the same….
Tommy still hasn’t chosen to live….
Tommy plays it safe….
And Tommy
suffers inside - every - single - day….
And most everyone pretends that Tommy ain’t suffering inside…
Because he pretends - he ain’t suffering - at all….
And so he has pretend
adventures….
He has pretend sex…
He plays pretend games….
He pretends to be funny…
He pretends to give a shit…
You
can imagine what he shares on facebook…
And when he’s asked about his crazy cousin, Mr Twenty Twenty…
He tells people that his crazy cousin - teaches people how to pretend their way to happiness…
And he smirks….
Get why?
He actually thinks that is what I do…
Because that’s what he does….
And he thinks - that’s what I do….
And it
ain’t so….
Tommy plays his Ultimate Fighting Champion game….
And shares videos of the latest and greatest fighters on his Insta….
On the other hand…
I’m a 5th degree black belt in Kempo Karate….
And I’ve got some other certificates too from fascinating folks…
Certificates that might be worth starting a fire with….
I do appreciate the paper….
The recognition….
But more importantly than that….
I appreciate the wisdom and guidance that’s been given to me…
And how that’s given to me - and those who dance with me…
Those who I love…
Most of my “wisdom keepers” who gave me soo much…
Are now
gone…
And I appreciate the wisdom I’ve earned - by listening to them…
How “wisdom grows” by living - what I was learning…..
So let’s wrap it up…
What if it’s true…
That you came here to REALLY live….
You came here to TRULY love…
You came here for HONEST open laughter…..
Laughter that reveals YOU are alive…
Laughter that reveals YOU - are love…
And you live in a world where it seems like most people settle for surviving the day….
And they settle for hanging with people who are “like them” who “like them”….
And
they love - a good joke - or a stupid video….
Because it gives them a chuckle…
That distracts them from their day…
And it’s better than, “being alone”…
So in
conclusion…
I’m inviting you to live life….
But to do that…
You need to entertain ONE THOUGHT…
The thought - that life - really can be lived…
And that YOU can really live life….
And that what you would truly enjoy - you can actually have…
I can’t convince you of that…
Thousands of success stories here - can’t convince you of that either…
But I can INVITE you to stop “living” like all you came here to do was settle and survive….
The most Remarkable folks I know are in our Remarkable program…
No, they aren’t
perfect…
Yes, they still have both struggles and successes….
But I can tell you this….
They are choosing something that almost nobody does…
They are choosing to live life…
They are choosing to “explore and soar”….
And I invite you…..
To join us….
I’m not gonna share the link
here….
But here’s what I’m gonna do…
I am gonna ask you to answer ONE question....
Just take a moment and reply to this email...
(Of course you can make ANY comment you wish to, and I hope you do… But I hope you take a moment and answer this one question…)
Do you - want your last breath here on earth…
To be one where you regret what you chose to miss out on…
Or do you want your last breath - here on earth - to be a celebration….
A life well lived…
Shoot me a reply..
Do it now…
Poke me if you want to chat about this….
I double dog dare you!
Your friend,
Mr Twenty
Twenty
PS: What about YOUR LAST BREATH today?
What do you choose for it to be?
