The Third Paige
When The Unplanned Comes Together
Trusting thyself isn’t always popular. The Lone Ranger isn’t just a TV show you know? While it may be trendy, keeping up with The Joneses comes at a price some of us aren’t comfortable paying; a price much too steep for our taste. What’s trending won’t pay your way to Paradise.
In like fashion, trusting thyself may not always work to your good. To date, the only thing that hasn’t returned void in my forty plus years of living is the Word of God and even that . . . well I’ll save that for another blog.
What being true to thyself does proffer conversely, is originality and the ingenuity thereof. When he entered the NBA and even further along into his career, the late Kobe Bryant was derided for being a clumsy fit. While not always popular, he was always original. While not always markedly good, he remained true to the game — his own self-contrived convictions — and to nothing and nobody else.
He didn’t hang out with teammates — the in-crowd fell outside his narrative. He studied sharks to one-up his adversaries — swishing in excess of 400 shots per day apparently left much to be desired. Owing to his originality, he debased convention and made self-perception wildly popular and it worked recursively for his good. The profusion of acclaim he garnered on the hardwood made that truth…
