Precious Mettle- by Zeke
Senica, Jesus, and Plato walk in to a bar.
Plato pontificates about what a drink may distract our attention from and what life truly is.
Senica says he’d like a drink that is complex enough to fortify his will power.
Jesus asks for a water and says, “I’ll take it from here.”
This isn’t an argument about being indecisive.
It’s about understanding what you are capable of.
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When you’re looking at life from a hotel window, everything looks about the same.
That is, unless you’re studying a specific scenario from a birds eye view.
It’s hard to have a real-time perspective, and constantly being stuck in the moment can give you a false sense of what’s going on.
We all need to have stock in our own stock.
Believe it or not, the most precious commodity in your creative bailiwick…is you.
Hardship is how you prove your mettle.
That is how your value is defined.
Struggle is the writ large of part and parcel value.
And success should come with the same learning curve as failure.
Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.”
It isn’t very often that any of us can say we truly did it alone.
If we, ourselves, don’t like being overlooked for our contributions, then we all need to do a better job of holding others up when they help us out.
Community is what makes a place home, rather than just some place you sleep.
The same goes for the art we all take part in.