The Joke is On You

When you think to yourself, “I’m not good enough.”

When you think to yourself, “I’m not worthy.”

When you think to yourself, “I can’t have that, do that, or be that.”

When you think these things — The joke is on you. 

When you subscribe to the bullying, the harassment, the abuse.

When you tolerate disrespect especially in a scenario where you are fighting for your life, recovering from brain damage.

When you betray your own boundaries for the sake of someone else’s ego.

When you allow these things — The joke is on you.

When you lie, cheat, or steal.

When you attempt to force someone to conform.

When you threaten or damage someone’s reputation and freedom out of hate, jealousy, selfishness or pride.

When you do these things — The joke is on you.

Why —

Abandoning yourself is the false positive you were sold as the solution to your problems.  

Exploiting others just because you can means you have a cancerous, ill spirit within you — pay attention to it, take care of it, purge it out of your system. 

Removal of yourself from the realities of your life does one thing only: makes you a shell of a human being.

But you have a soul. You were uniquely designed. You were called by name. 

Your pain and suffering wasn’t put on your bill.

That’s the joke.

Falling into the trap that we are supposed to suffer in order to receive.

Into the trap of thinking that we can only attain something by sacrificing a part of ourselves.

Falling into the trap that once you take up space — in relationships, money, or career, that those things will run out. So you put restrictions on yourself, on how much you’ll use or do or have to “ensure” you won’t run out. 

All this is doing? Keeps you small. Keeps your mission small. Keeps you contained in a box. 

That’s the trap and where the joke is on you — if you fall for it. 

I don’t think it’s any coincidence that April Fool’s Day and Easter fall in the same month. 

Don’t be a fool — look at the one who overcame the grave. 

So when you finally decide to quit all of the b.s. —

Welcome to New York.

-B