How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Chapter 1: Faith without Support

Chapter 1:

Faith without Support

Finished every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; but get rid of them and forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, and you should never encumber its potentialities and invitations with the dread of the past. You should not waste a moment of today on the rottenness of yesterday.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson, writing to his daughter

WHO said you were not made for the big things of life? That you can't achieve your goals? That you can't have peace of mind, be happy and be important? That your only destiny is to sail through life's difficulties and be miserable?

Who said you were not supposed to win? Or that you were not supposed to be successful, be known and be celebrated?

Ok, just about everything and everyone!

Well, maybe nobody has ever become a millionaire in your family. Maybe nobody has ever driven big cars, ran giant corporation and built exotic, architectural bullet building with exquisite furniture overlooking the White House!

Maybe nobody has ever gotten the right education and graduated from college with straight A's in your family! In fact, maybe nobody really expect anyone in your family to be great!

So they said you were destined to be average and be ordinary?! They said you were destined to live a low life and just take it the way it is?! They said you can never enjoy live to the full because the economy, as they said, is seriously in bad shape and out of focus?!

And they said you will never have great succeed, that you will never amount to anything much because you don't have the winning edge, or the right connection, the right education and people in your life!

Or maybe they said that your destiny cannot be shape! That it sucks!

Regardless, that is the tape of the World and shouldn't listen to it! You shouldn't master the tune! It is all husks! And whether you believe or not you have the structure to change the balance of the World power!

However, the tragedy of the World today is that it is made up of intellectuals and geniuses who are so down, poor, miserable and defeated and whose stories have become almost proverbial! Most often these are the kind of people who, with creative details, will give you all the wrong reasons why you can never amount to very much in life.

So the World does not see anything promising about your future because you don't look promising, right? They don't expect you to raise the standard of your living, to go beyond your limitation and break the record because there is nothing heroic about you?

So they said you have been fashion to live a life of pain, misery and uncertainty? And that since you have no personality you are to live and experience life like the average Joe or Josephine on the dusty street, isn't it?

They said you are wimpy, they said you are lonely and dull!

The truth is, "No one can make you inferior without your consent." Only you can structure your life precisely the way you want it to be structured, and not the significant adults in your life or the miserable World out there!

Hence like the copper-snake that was hung on the tree by Moses in the wilderness, the truth is that you, too, can hang your life on whatever poll you desire and be lifted far above your limitation, weakness and defeat!

It's foolishness, therefore, even if it appears that you can't go beyond your limitation, or that you have been beaten and can't go against the rock to give the leadership of your life to your limitation, to the significant adults in your life or to the events of the World around you!