Kick in the ass
“Sometimes you need a kick in the ass to get your ass moving...” Christina Livingston
My Rrrosa Christina is one of the most brilliant and quick people I know. Whenever I call her to whine about whatever issue, she always has the right thing to say, or if not, she listens and that is the truth. The other day, I got a kick in my ass and it made me realize that I have gotten a bit comfortable, complacent. I keep expecting my goals and dreams to fall into my life, that I’ll become the over night star as my girl Alicia says. I forgot just for a moment that there are things that I need to be doing on my end so God can step in and make it happen. It just dawned on me the other day that along with everything else I have accomplished, I am going to have to fight for this. I give the cliché to my students all the time that it isn’t worth it if you don’t have to fight for it. We have to fight for things instead of just saying that we want something. Those stories of people being discovered on the back of a bus singing along with their headphones, or walk through a mall and get picked up a modeling agency are rare, and are often the one’s that we tend to cling to. We want to be discovered and whisked away into our ideal life, but let’s be realistic. In order to be discovered, you have to be doing something. I needed that kick in my ass because now I have that little fire in my belly that has been missing ever since Spoken Silence came out. I got comfortable. I have two books, a decent following and really, as a young woman who’s only been out of school for two years, that’s not a bad start. I was okay with that, and honestly thinking that okay, maybe one day some publisher will randomly come across my book, fall in love and whisk me away into my ideal life. Yeah freaking right. I have to get it together and start pushing my dream again.
So thank you Rose for reminding me that complacency has no place in ambition. Complacency is the first ingredient for mediocrity and as we know that is not the goal for 007...
Peace Y’all
B
