2013 promises to be the most amazing year of your life as you surround yourself with people who will lift you up and challenge you to press into all that you could possibly be and achieve.
I was at a social function last week with some of the most motivated, gifted and accomplished IT and transformation experts in London you could legally fit into a room. I caught up with a number of people, including an old work colleague – let’s call him John, who I’d kept in touch with online via linkedin or other social media. He’d had a new baby, was doing well in his career, and had created a successful online blog focused on personal development, while you and I were asleep. He’d literally come home everyday to work late into the night editing and publishing articles on his portal, which has attracted hundreds of writers and thousands of articles over the last year. I was amazed, and wanted to understand his driving passion.
He had learnt the hard way, having lost his father and sister that life can hit you hard in the nuts. He’d learned to cope and face life head on; and with an ‘I can’t be beat’, ‘crack on’ positive attitude, he had taken to sharing all he had learned with others. I found this rather remarkable.
I don’t own many possessions that I can’t do without. Perhaps the closest thing to my heart besides the people I love and those who love me, is — my iPhone. Sad, I know.
I smashed the screen over a year ago. It was still functional, so I endured the gamma rays slowing depleting my brain cells as I made and received calls, often without a headset. I hid the phone in a pouch, like you would have done so that most casual onlookers wouldn’t realise it had a cracked screen.
I’m not saying you are hiding stuff. Some deeply felt pain, brokenness or dysfunction brought about by ‘unpleasant things’ you have experienced or are living with right now that you hide from the rest of the world, however you do it. I am saying that I and most of the known world, do! You may well be one of the rare exceptions. My parent’s messy divorce robbed me of a supportive two parent family upbringing that exposed me to challenges and experiences that could build any shrink’s bank balance. Myself and my brother and sisters ended up in social care, and like you clearly are, have emerged to be fighters not whiners.
After an interesting turn of events, I finally handed in my phone at the Apple store in Westfield, White city, and got a brand new iPhone in return. It cost me £150, but boy was it worth every penny.
It’s been a week, and the conversation I had with John hasn’t left me. Like my experience with the iPhone, where I found I had to take it to the manufacturer to get a brand new phone; the same as my old much loved phone but better, I’ve begun to question whether you can really live like God intended; in peace, joy and fulfilment without turning yourself in for an overhaul or outright replacement.
Gori speaks, writes and tries to live life as God intended.
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