The Stock Market Chart Syndrome
Is there anyone else besides me out there in internet land whose life resembles one of those stock market charts (picture in your mind a series of connected “W’s”). Things go good for a time, then something happens and troubles set in. Then the troubles eventually subside and good times return to embrace me. Then they decide to go on vacation and the bad times come in to take their place. I term it “that damned stupid cycle.” I can picture the gods on Mount Olympus looking down at me when times are good and Zeus says to another god, “He thinks things are good now. Watch this” (and he pows me with a lightning bolt of misfortune). Then Zeus and his confederate start boisterous laughter as they high five each other.
Me Helping Me
It has taken me almost seven decades but I have finally arrived at that point where I think I have figured out the primary reason why my life has been as it has been. It is a different reason for each of us. In my case, there is no more margin of error for me as my time on earth is quickly running out. Only a few short years remain. I feel like Dorothy from The Wizard of Oz in the tower where the wicked witch turns over the hourglass and says, “See this – This is how much time you have left to be alive. And it isn’t long my pretty, It isn’t long.” Now is the time for me to act with urgency to do what is necessary to bust free from that damned stupid cycle.
As I have written these weekly posts over the course of the last year, I have slowly come to realize a grand irony in my writing these posts. It hit me the other day that they are meant as much to help me personally as much as they are to help anyone that may be reading them. I have a number of manifestations pending now in a number of different areas. The thoughts and ideas that wind up on paper in the form of these blog posts are all part of my crystallizing those manifestations into my reality.
What Are You Prepared To Do ?
In the movie, “The Untouchables”, starring Kevin Costner and Sean Connery, when Costner as Elliot Ness requests help from Connery’s character, Jim Malone, an honest Chicage cop, in putting Al Capone in prison, Malone asks him, “What are you prepared to do?” Ness answers, “Everything within the law”. Malone responds, ” And then, what are you prepared to do? If you open the can on these people Mr. Ness, you must be prepared to go all the way because they won’t give up the fight until one of you is dead.”
For the purposes of this blog post, I will reframe that last statement by Connery into this statement – unless you do what is necessary in your life, either you will be walking around captive to the damn stupid cycle or the damned stupid cycle will finally be put to death.
Are you ready to do what is necessary to bust free?
The very existence of your true life depends on your raw honest answer to that one question.
If the answer is yes, then proceed forth now and do it. If the answer is no, then stop bemoaning your fate. Accept living in the cycle for the remainder of your time here and just try to make the best of it. Maybe right now you are just not ready. Maybe at a later time you will change your mind and be prepared to do what is necessary.
The choice is yours. You have been given free will by Divine Source in order that you may live full, live abundantly, and live free of that damned stupid cycle if you so choose, but, only if you so choose.
What do you choose? What are you prepared to do?