Preachers, We Already Know Things Suck. What’re You Going to do About it?

Please, we don’t need to be reminded what’s wrong. We need to know what you’re going to do to make it better.

Imagine you wake up today, and all of a sudden you have the power to do whatever it is you want.

Whether that be sit on the couch and do nothing, or travel the globe feeding starving children all across the land.

Think about waking up today, and the view from your bed is exactly what you have dreamed of.

Picture yourself, in your perfect physical shape, wearing the exact clothing you want most, and you’re in the place you’ve always wanted to go.

America was founded on the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; land of the free, home of the brave.

For me, it’s a little hard for me to wrap my mind around, but where did our angst go? When did we decide that we are going to be dormant and docile, and not demand a greater today.

It’s like, since my existence in this life, I have seen no passion behind any political or other figures in the media and beyond, fighting for something that they know we as a people deserve.

I had an interesting conversation with a gentleman last night. It was awful late, and we were all enjoying ourselves, and I had found myself on the porch of a small house on top of a hill in Asheville.

The inside of the house was packed with rowdy college students living in the moment.

The porch was cold and cramped. I was unsure really why I was even there in the first place, let a lone on this porch.

The lot of the people sharing this space with me were sucking down cigarettes like someone was going to steal them if the didn’t.

To my left is a very nice young lady, with a polka dot dress and a light jacket, and to my right, a very attractive and soft spoken women with large hoop earrings.

Standing across from me are three guys. The two on the right are my buddies that I live with here at the SOLE, the guy on the left was a taller gentleman wearing a tie die UNCA hoodie, who claimed to hate hippies, sported a dirty beard and dark thick framed glasses.

I am pretty unsure exactly what it was that this guy was saying, but I found myself awful out of place.

I’ve been to my fair share of college parties, and I guess I never really noticed just how many opinions these college kids have.

I mean, I honestly live with some of the most motivated and passionate people I’ve ever met in my whole life but this guy, this guy had passion like I have never seen before.

He could barely slow down enough to catch his breath!

So, I reconnect with my thoughts and feelings while I am standing there, and I start to notice that although he seems to know what he’s talking about and although he seems to be really fired up about the topic; he’s starting to talk in circles.

So after I let the discussion take its course, I feel the urge to interject. Not for any real reason other than I was having a hard time trying to figure out where and when this conversation was going to come to a close.

So after he had taken a short break, stated that he quite possibly was “a little drunk”, lit a cigarette and was back at it.

That’s when I decided, I should at least ask if he ever did intend to actually bring this thing to a conclusion, or if he was just preaching.

Turns out he was just preaching.

That’s when I noticed that we have an awful lot of, “preaching” that happens, with no real call to action or intent to ever do anything about it.

What would you say? What would you do? If you believed that you could actually get it done?

These are the questions we need to be asking ourselves on a regular basis. If we don’t, how are we going to ever make an actual change.

You can whine, and complain, bitch and moan as much as you please; but to the young 20 year old warriors out there who know deep inside of them that you were sent here to do something and to make a difference, the only way to make the change is to do it. And you can start now.

I promise you, last year I was rolling sushi, living in a duplex, going to school full time, and now I am on the forefront of making an actual change for the lives of many people.

I would even feel comfortable to say that most of you out there reading this today are a hell of a lot smarter and more capable than I am.

But if you’re not, if you don’t have the connections, time, money, help, support, blah blah blah. Join the club and keep scraping by, convincing yourself that you’re okay with being average and that your hopes dreams and aspirations don’t matter. Because if you want to keep making bullshit excuse after excuse, that is the only life you will ever know and I am telling you it will just keep getting worse and worse.

We are in a shift. A shift in how the world works. We don’t have time for people who are okay with being average. You will not get what you want just be clocking in a clocking out anymore. That security that you have been promised for so long, it’s no longer there. There are too many people already who can work that job, let alone the machine that can do it better and more exact each and every time.

You have to find something that fires you up so much that you don’t have time for distractions. You don’t have time to chat. You don’t have time to watch that funny YouTube clip.

Nah, you have to want it so bad that no matter what anyone says or does it doesn’t matter unless they are helping you get whatever it is you want to get done.

And you need to continually surround yourself with people who are doing the same. This may be the most important part. And the thing of it is, is that they don’t even have to be working on the same thing.

But as long as you have surrounded yourself with a community of people who are no nonsense, all business; you will have a much better chance at sticking through and making it happen.

They will all be at a different point than you, you will be able to help some when they get to a road block, and they will be able to help you.

You don’t need to do this alone but you do need to do it.

So let’s stop preaching and start doing. Because preaching does nothing than bring down the spirits of people around us if all we are preaching about is how terrible everything is.

Imagine after all the doing is done, how much more affective you preaching just may be. After you all, you are the one who followed your dreams and made the most out of every situation along the way.