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The Right to Occupy Your
Space
Let's
take a short journey into the distant
past. Not a vague journey, a specific
journey - one that will take us
along a very interesting path, a
path we rarely consider, if ever.
To start, let's try to imagine
what the world was like around,
say, a thousand years ago. Ok, now
let's see... with a little license,
we can say this was roughly the
time in history when the seeds of
courtly love were first being sown,
when troubadours were just beginning
to write lyric poems about abstract
concepts like chivalry, and when
knights and damsels were just beginning
to come into their own. So yes,
this is a fine place to begin our
journey.
Now imagine a man standing on
the earth all those many years ago.
That man, somewhere on earth and
one thousand years ago, had a son,
who then went on to have a son,
who also had a son, who, in turn,
had a son, and so on, all the way
down through the centuries. These
men, all of them creators,
produced a very direct and distinct
line of fathers and sons, all the
way down to the modern age.
And, more specifically, all the
way down to you.
Oh, did I forget to mention that
the man you should imagine one thousand
years ago is your direct ancestor?
Well, let's imagine it now. What
did he look like? What was he wearing?
What kind of people were around
him? And where on the earth do you
guess he was standing? And while
you are pondering those questions,
also consider this excellent thought:
every single one of us alive today
had a forefather standing on the
earth one thousand years ago.
So there he is. This man was
your blood. You are his legacy.
And stretching through these many
...the world deserves your true self. The world
deserves your authenticity. The
world deserves you fully present.
years between you and him, that
distant ancestor on a distant shore,
is a long unbroken line of fathers
and sons, creators, men who ultimately
created you today.
And now think about the many
thousands of men who were his contemporaries
that have no direct descendents
alive today. In other words, somewhere
in the last thousand years, they
or their sons or daughters had no
offspring and their particular line
died out.
The implication, of course, is
that you have the blood
of winners circulating in your veins.
Think about that for a minute. Your
forefathers had the strength and
imagination and courage to create.
Against all the odds - short life
expectancies, wars, crusades, famines,
persecution, plagues and pestilence
- they persevered.
They won.
Through all the centuries, the
Dark Ages, the Renaissance, the
Reformation and Enlightenment, through
the incredible periods of Exploration
and Colonization, through the Victorian
Age, the Industrial Age, through
Civil and World Wars, through the
Information Age, all the way to
you.
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You, my friend, have the bloodline of champions.
Your fathers were adventurers, pioneers, and warriors... warriors who stood on a battlefield with a sword. |
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And yet... we are afraid to talk
to that girl over there.
It is amazing when you think
about it. It's kind of like we are
letting these men down.
One thing's for sure: we are
definitely letting that girl
down. Why? Because she deserves
your true self. In fact, the world
deserves your true self. The world
deserves your authenticity. The
world deserves you fully present.
We, as men, have forgotten how
to stand on the earth. We have forgotten
how to be spacious. We have forgotten
that we have been given a name.
We have forgotten the legacy of
all those who came before us. We
dial ourselves down.
We settle.
And there's the problem. We settle
- in our careers, in our relationships,
in all aspects of our lives. Women
everywhere are asking "Where are
the real men?" And we're over here
in the corner saying, "It's good
enough."
No more! Never settle. Dregs
settle.
Always remember the legacy of
those who came before you. Because
of them, you have the right to occupy
your space on earth. You have the
right to speak your name. You have
the right to be spacious.
And you certainly have the right
to talk to that girl!
Zan Perrion
Copyright
© 2007 Alabaster Communications
Inc
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