Anytime a piece of art resonates with you, it means you are in the same vibrational frequency as the author/creator when they were creating the art. You just tuned into their exact vibrational frequency. Influencers have got to be puppet masters. How do you get a million people to tune into your vibration any time you are creating? A content creator is a shepherd, and they have their own flock of sheep. Must be nice: Money is with the sheep.
“Who knows you is more important than who you know. Build a brand” James Clear.
In our times, the first step to getting somewhere is by asking yourself ‘how many sheep do I got?’ Where sheep is, there is endless consumption, and with endless consumption there is the endless exchange of energy ‘money’. Money is just a tool for exchange of energy. Back in the day, the more sheep you had, the higher your chances of being a king, emperor, chief or spiritual leader. Today, you will have a large following on TikTok. Either way, the following will draw in the money.
It’s in human nature to give energy/ money to brands that have a huge following. It’s safe in crowds. When man lived in the jungle, he knew crowds were necessary to survive. Alone, you could get attacked by animals, or be sacrificed by other tribes. That mentality is still with us today, hence citizenship, boarders, and governments. When it comes to consumption, that mentality translates to: If a million people love it, I am definitely going to love it too, because all these people can’t be wrong.
Our ancestors said it, ‘Umoja ni nguvu, utengano ni udhaifu’
The older I get, the more I realize we should have paid more attention to Wahenga. As a melanin dominant person, if you should be taking advice from anyone, atleast let it be from someone whose shoes you are walking in. Our ancestors are us, and we are them. They are in our DNA and cells: it’s been scientifically proven that DNA and cells carry memory and information, which they then passed on to the daughter cells ( which is us). Normalize listening to your intuition. Please listen to your shadows. Listen to your mother. Listen to your body. Your vessel knows what’s good for it, and what’s bad. It will communicate through creaking, rusting, and terrible machinery. Why won’t you listen? You would rather listen to the spectators outside the ring, instead of the opponent. You aren’t focused on the match, and that is why you are always being pinned.
They say you should love your God with all your heart and soul. It might seem easy to do, but it isn’t. We mistreat our God any chance we get…90% of us anyway. In return, we get disease, poverty, ugly, desert, infertility and finally death. I cringe anytime I think about how I have mistreated her: By refusing to give her the best. Everytime you choose five pizza slices over a cup of lemon tea, you are finishing her. Everytime you give 90% of your energy to a toxic environment over your own piece of mind, you are finishing her. Everytime you take the supporting role in your own damn life, you are finishing her. Everytime you depend on outside approval and disregard hers, you are finishing her.
It has got to stop.
We have to choose better, even though it’s hard. We have to learn resilience and build strength by enduring. We have to learn the art of sitting through the discomfort of wanting and not taking. We have to master the art of delayed gratification before it’s too late.
