Breakdown or Breakthrough

Breakdown or Breakthrough. The choice is yours, the choice is mine. The very thing that may seem like it is causing you to break down may be the 1st in a series of events that lead to your breakthrough. Let me take you back to a 24-hour period that led me to this epiphany.

Imagine this for a minute. I was let go from work. A blow to my ego yes. I took it in stride, back to the drawing board. Let me suck it up and find a new job. So I get in my car to drive home and it overheats. So, I had to pull over and let it cool off and try to get home. Not a good day. Not a good day. So my car will not get me home from being fired, let go, not picked up... call it what you want, I just want to call it a day. So I call for a tow truck, drop off my car at the closest shop I can find, and get a ride home (Taxi, Uber, Lyft, whatever.) So, once I get home I have to get a rental car because I have weekend side gigs I need to still perform. So while calling around to get ready for my weekend, I call a few friends for some advice - More on that later. I get a rental car, I get to a weekend DJ gig and I fry an amp. Luckily I had a spare amp, but I am basically already DJ'ing for free to pay for the rental car so losing an amp just puts me further down the hole. All this was happening while I was dealing with a family emergency, my Mother was in the hospital, but I only told those closest to me.

Breakdown after breakdown after breakdown. So I got a choice to make, feel sorry for myself or submit myself to the lesson the last 24 hours have been screaming at me. I talked with and listened to about 7 different people, none of whom were connected, some who knew what I was going through and some I just met for the first time. Each and every person confirmed what someone else had said and what my spirit was telling me. Let go of your Ego, listen to your spirit, and do for others, pay it forward no strings attached.

Break down or breakthrough, the choice was mine to make. After a minute of honest reflection, leading up to those 24 hours, I was running on pure Ego, I was unfocused, and I had no real drive. I did not tell people what was really important to me I was afraid of losing my Mom, and no one asked. See I know the difference between people building you up and people tearing you down. In this case, people were choosing to do nothing. No one asked me what was wrong. Maybe they did not know me well enough to know I was hiding something.

Word to everyone reading this... Doing nothing is not helping anyone. Ask people how they are doing. One small word of encouragement could mean the world to someone who is hiding their feelings.

Now I was not going to let this break me down. I made up my mind, whatever it took and life was up for the challenge. So I had to submit to the fact that I had to let go and be thankful for every day. I took any part-time job I could get my hands on. By the end of the year, I was juggling 4 jobs and was full of fire. I continued to run into people who would lift me up. Yes, there were people tearing each other down, naturally, there were people trying to tear me down. See I know the difference. It is how we talk to each other, and how we act toward each other; if we set people up for success or failure. Do we make demands on people or do we try to help each other out?

Life will try to break you down before you reach your breakthrough. People will try to break you down for many reasons, starting with EGO. Your breakthrough is out there. My next breakthrough is out there. We can get there a lot faster by working together, by actually caring about each other, and by lifting each other up in words and in actions. Doing nothing is not helping.

I choose to be happy. That does not mean it is easy. The more positive I become the more negative the world seems to become. I choose to be happy anyway. I choose to encourage others. Even if others try to break me down. I choose to focus on the breakthrough. Not just for me, but for everyone. I believe everyone has a Superpower. Everyone Is made of Star Dust. I believe that broken people break others. Hurt people hurt people. I believe we can do better.

One of my worst days confirmed what I already knew. I will not break down, I will break through. You can break through also. Stand up, set aside your ego. Focus, Drive, and activate your Super Power. Stardust, we are made of Stardust.