Being Beethoven
How small being Beethoven must have been. How small being Mark, must be and how small being the you, you see, must be. Oh, how small the we, we see can be. (The article continues below the following images)
Like you, I, too, have believed all who said, "this" or "that" we should be. Yes, many a lie I believed - that I should be educated, I should be wealthy, I should be this or that, but never just me. In fact, after hearing all that I should or should not be, should I give up on me?
I tried being all of the this' and that's I could be. I tried being a good boy, a good man, a good patriot, you see. I tried being a customer service representative, a zoologist, a roadie, a photographer, a runner, a gardener, a Jeep guy, a slick guy, the blued eyed and sexy voiced guy, the boyfriend, the husband, a father and everything else I ever "tried" to be.
I will tell you this; I was none of those things, nor anything else I ever "tried" to be. I was always and entirely, just me.
My ego said I was a lot of things. It told me after watching a movie that I was that character and that after reading a patriotic post that I was a patriot, yes-sir-re. My ego told me, I was right and you were wrong, that this house is MY house, not yours, comprende? My ego led me astray. It convinced me, confined me, and contained me. I, like you and everyone else, became my ego, all that it said I was or wasn't, all that it saw, and nothing that it would not let me see. In my seeing no further than the edicts of ego, I limited and prevented me from simply being me.
Like you and many others, I was never good enough. I was never rich enough. I was lazy, I was stupid, I was weak, I was, I was, I was. And, like you, wasn't motivated enough. I wasn't smart enough. I wasn't good looking enough. I was or I wasn't everything my ego and society in their all knowing wisdom said, I was or was not. No, I am not the victim here, but a co-conspirator in this ruse. Through me seeing no further than all the corporeal and ego driven things I was or wasn't, I became all that I was or wasn't, instead of just me.
You see, the me you see, that I see, is more than what ego or society wants me to be. The you, you see, who I see, is much, much more than any of us can see, because the you I see and the me you see, is contained within confines of the lies we believe. And, these lies we believe, we believe because we think they are the we, we see. These lies you see, they spin tall tales or deflate our sails all in the slickly dressed ruse to bolster or protect us from all that we believe will bring harm to us, but instead, tricks and weakens us, and brings us to our knees.
You see, we are more than Beethoven,
we are more than you or me. We are infinity. ~ I Am - Wisdom / Mark
We are God's DNA, truth about God is, He is infinite, like you said. More blessings!