The Wake of yourself

To be yourself, you need to accept leadership of that self. This means you need to be the person who is sensitive to yourself and who takes action for yourself in your best interests. You need to create your own wake in your life. This wake is raised by your unique feelings. Your work and relationships are all part of the wake you have made. Create what you need and want for yourself; don't wait for someone else to do that for you. Don't make someone else more powerful for your life than yourself, or you are giving up your freedom and deserve your imprisonment. Make your life the place where others have the chance to use the momentum of your wake, rather than you just relying on other people's wakes to bob you along.

If you would rather not be playing bingo on Saturday nights with the neighborhood girls, create your own life. Your life is telling you that bingo on Saturday nights is not the wake of your life. Find out what you love. Get into your fa vorite hobbies, spend time in a club which you have been wanting to join, or form your own club. It's okay to use another person's wake if it is also part of your own, but when you just ride his wake because you have nothing else to do, you need to look deeper inside yourself. You need to find out what you are telling yourself to do in your life before your life is over. Some projects will take an entire lifetime just to get the momentum of them into motion. You had better find out what you want in life now, and get going at your life projects.

It is never too late to at least start on something you love. You may want the world to be without war. This is a process that will probably take more than one lifetime to achieve, but you can be the part of humanity which begins where other people have left off to help effect a closer realization of the goal. You must play your part in life; that is why you are here. If that part is something you cannot become due to a late start (such as becoming a ballet dancer), you can at least start on something closely related to it. Perhaps you may choose to teach children ballet. Choose something that will bring you as close to the thing you love in life as possible. That is your goal.

In actuality, we never achieve what we want in life; we only strive to bring what we want closer to existence. If in one moment we achieve what we had wanted from a previous moment, our hearts already call for something more. This is because as we grow, our goals also grow.

You have to do whatever you can in order to make your life worth living. This is your life, and you need to come as close as possible to your heart‟s desire to give back to the world the most you possibly can. People who don‟t like the work that you love cannot possibly give the way you can because they lack the motivation that you posses. Their passion and attention of detail cannot be as great as yours. You can breath your work, while they must suffocate in it.

You have an advantage over other people in doing what you love. Be kind to others and yourself by taking that advantage. Other people will sense your love for the work and will be pleased that they are being served by someone who has passion. They can trust you more, benefit from the higher quality of output you provide, and enjoy the smile on your face and the happiness you exude as you do your work. Your employer will also take note of your passion, especially since he will sense that you are doing his work for yourself. Since you satisfy yourself by doing the employer‟s work, he feels less of a desperation and burden placed upon him. This means he will feel freer, and also feel freer to give back to you.

You might perceive your passion as something insignificant to the world, but you have no idea of the repercussions the work creates in you or other people. Your first project may lead to another which exceeds the potential of the first but which could never have manifested until the work on the first was enacted. Your endeavors, of which you might believe insignificant, may be the necessary ingredient other people need to develop their projects. The important point is that you are as close as possible to the thing you love. Therein lies the importance of the endeavor. Your gift from your heart‟s desire is exactly the most important gift you give to humanity.

Start doing what you were meant to be doing. Follow your dreams until they become real; then dream more and follow those dreams. Continue this process; that is what life is all about. The secret to life is in your dreams, your heart's deep desires. Anyone who tells you differently is not following his dreams or not paying close enough attention to know what it is all about.

People who are not following their dreams are drifting into other people's dreams. They are clogging up places where true dreamers would like to be, making it harder for the true dreamers to give their gifts to the world. People who don‟t follow their dreams, the dreamless, fill up their positions with emptiness, whereas people with passion could fill the positions with fullness coming straight from their heart. True dreamers pump energy into their work, which dreamless people couldn‟t possibly do because their heart is not in “their” work. Dreamless people are just trying to get by and are afraid to risk for their dreams. Don't let this happen to you. If it does, you will fear getting older because you will not be living the life you should be living. Your fear of death will grow because you are losing your time, your self, your dreams, and your heart.

You are not meant to lose your heart; you are meant to keep it. If you choose differently, you deserve all the sadness, emptiness, and desperation which comes with that choice. These negative feelings are your hearts communications to you that you are betraying it. You deserve to here it out. It is yours and only you are going to hear it. Only you are making the choices to betray it. Only you can do something to love, listen to, and express it rather than ignore and repress it. Only you feel your feelings. Only you are yourself. Don't just try to get through your life, you will not like what's at the end. Your life is in the process of your life. Make it happen the way your heart tells you it wants to happen.