'Human Potholes' ...Lady Gray

Human Potholes’
By: Lady Gray

I come to all of the members of the Human Race with the nth amount of due respect & love for life…this article is to provoke the human thought process. Feel free to express your thoughts.

In the World today, where the majority is made to feel insignificant & menial by the minority, it seems futile to develop one’s self worth in character. For every positive step we take forward, negativity pushes us two steps back. The majority seldom tally all of those baby steps, they focus on the ability of the minority to push us back on our journey in life. Yet the strength of the ‘insignificant’ & ‘meek’ have always found the strength to conquer & overcome when their life is being suffocated by the self-appointed minority. We accept our suppression & oppression so long, then we arise in unity when our very existence is threatened.  When life riddles our journey with too many ‘potholes’ to continue. Yes, life will always support the ‘sharecroppers’ of the World with ‘potholes’.

When there is a ‘pothole’ on your street…does that tell you to just be cautious on your travels? Or does it say much more? That ‘pothole’ has become very vital to life, if not significant to the ‘total picture’ of reason & purpose. The ‘pothole’ may exist for months. The traveler’s instinct kicks in, being ever so careful not to disrupt his journey, he will go around that ‘pothole’, day in & day out. The traveler, focused on his own mission & agenda, will fail to hear or see the message the ‘pothole’ is trying to deliver.

“LOOk’ around you, your neighborhood & community are in need of maintenance & repair.”  There comes a time when the significance of the ‘pothole’ is noticed & felt. It’s message silenced & covered up. For days the majority will continue to go around the ‘pothole’ by instinct alone, until they recognize that it has been repaired. But now when we drive over the ‘pothole’, our journey doesn’t feel the same. A ‘pothole’ that the minority would have you believe is trivial & insignificant, yet it caused hundreds daily to go around it on their travels…

Life has given society ‘human potholes’ as well…all with a reason & purpose, a message that has to be delivered. ‘Human Potholes’ come in all sizes & shapes, some of them are easily recognized, others are cloaked in darkness to test our built in instincts & survival modes. When a ‘potholes’ message falls on deaf ears, it’s trivial beginnings become significant  & can reach enormous proportions. As humans we also host ‘potholes’, if they’re not recognized & dealt with, they will soon consume our being & become our demise. From the trivial to the enormous, ‘potholes’  are part of our existence, whether or not we recognize them & heed their advice is for another thought.

What about the ‘human potholes’ that we find to be a nuisance  & irksome? The importance of their existence that we fail to recognize. The self-appointed Guardians of our block: the ‘elderly man or woman’ who sits on their porch or behind a window & just watch. They know all the comings & goings…give love & tongue lashings to our children…wave, hand you a flower as you pass by, nod, shake their head or just ignore you all together. They’re significance & the role they played in our portrait is not recognized until they’re removed or covered up.

The drug dealer & gang members…they stand outside of their residence & on the street corner every day. We drive by & see them…we look outside & know they’re there. We know their faces, what they’re doing…they’re very existence becomes part of our daily portrait. Then one day you drive by, the corner  is empty, there’s no lights on in their residence. All of a sudden you notice the portrait doesn’t feel the same…something is missing.

The defiant juvenile, who made you shake your head & raise the hair on the back of your neck. The little rebel who didn’t understand the importance of his role in life or what a significant part in the portrait of our daily lives he took. Then one day, he’s gone from us too soon. Taken from life, by larger ’potholes’. His shoes no longer grace his home or run on our sidewalks. His laughter, smile, occasional wave or smart ass answer are now absent. The neighborhood loses strength & our portrait never looks the same again.

The largest ’potholes’ in life’s pyramid are claimed by the minority.  The politicians, globalists, corporate overseers & dictators. You can find them at the top of the ‘Pothole Charts’. They’re images & significance remind us of what happens to a trivial pothole when it is not recognized or heeded. When the cost of its maintenance & repair become to burdensome for the majority to consider. Soon the eyesore ‘pothole’ becomes undesirable for the daily portrait of our lives. Instead of removing or repairing the ‘eyesore’ we find another way to travel. If the majority uses their ‘significant’ strength in numbers & chooses another route for their journey, the enormous ‘pothole’ will crumble unto itself.

‘Human Potholes’ are created by weaknesses within our lives that we fail to recognize or address. Many times we become accustomed to life’s ‘potholes’. But when they claim you, when you no longer have the strength to crawl away from them, then the daily portrait of your existence is no longer of your choosing or design. Denial is the seed which creates ‘potholes’. We must make the ‘seeds’ accountable…be aware of their care & growth.

Each day on our travels, the enormous ‘potholes’ are assaulting our ‘mental chassis’  & daily portraits. Our existence has become threatened & burdensome. We become weakened by the numerous attacks & assaults on our character & portraits. We feel disheartened, helpless, worthless …our character’s greatest ‘FEAR’ is that we will start to take on the traits of the enormous ‘potholes’. We fear ‘touching life’ within our existence…should we be assaulted for our efforts.

The enormous ‘potholes’ are allowed to exist due to the fact, that we’re so busy going around them, trying to keep our chassis in tact that we don’t have time to give it the attention it needs to be repaired. We all feel that ‘no one man’ can get the job done. So the existence of the ‘pothole’ grows….however I remind you of the small ‘pothole’ that was so significant that it caused hundreds if not thousands to feel its presence. Or how it was allowed to become enormous & affect the existence of ‘millions’.

Let us not forget the movie, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ one of my favorites. George Bailey thought that he was the most ‘insignificant’ man in town. By the end of the movie, he was actually the ‘most important’ man in town. There are some rewards in life, that can not be measured by the ‘size of the pothole’ or the cost of maintenance & repair.

I want each & every human to realize, that you do count in life’s total scope & without your existence, my daily portrait wouldn’t look or feel the same….thank you for playing a role in my ‘daily portrait’.

I leave you as I came, with the nth amount of due love & respect for life….
Lady Gray

Commitments Wisdom...Lady Gray

We must continually ask ourselves whether or not our actions and plans reflect our commitments to do all in our power to ensure our desires and Visions become a Reality….If not, those areas in which we are found to be lacking, need careful examination and a commitment to rid our lives of any and all barriers to our success.

“True character is a rider, seated firmly atop the shoulders of commitment. So when commitment falters, character is thrown.”

What does your character say about your commitments? What does your commitment say about your belief in the Vision?

It is true that the journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step. What we must now consider is the destination. If we continue to attack our 21^st Century problems with 20^th Century answers and methods, we will no doubt continue on a road further and further away from the Vision within our hopes and dreams.

In short, if we continue to do what we’ve always done, we’ll continue to get what we’ve always received.

Stand firm my fellow Brothers and Sisters of the Struggle, through true dedication, determination and discipline, our future can be as close as the next horizon.

"Baby The Rain Must Fall"--By: Lady Gray

‘Baby, The Rain Must Fall’...

I wish to dedicate this article to all of those who wish to ‘walk within the light of day’.... 

I’ve always been passionate about rain & stormy weather.  When your heart pounds..the blood courses through your veins to the symphony of Mother Nature lets you feel alive & at peace.  There’s something exciting about having your heart & blood pump, then being lulled into a state of peace & finally rest.  It’s almost like Life & Mother Nature are making love to us... I can see some of you scratching your heads. (smile) 

I love stormy weather,  the soft fall of rain that lulls me to sleep after Life makes love to me and shares some of its thoughts.  After all, that’s what that big clap is after every bolt of lightening..Life spitting out another thought.  Mind you, I do not like tornados, but I have been in a few hurricanes over the years...but I do like the way Life & Mother Nature has a way of taking care of all of us.

On my journey, I have come to the conclusion...that we are all ‘sharecroppers’ on this plane in life.  We truly can’t own a corner of the world...we are merely invited guests. (I see some of you shaking your head & saying Lady I own a piece of land, my own house. What you truly own is a lifetime lease with the government & the powers that be through taxation!)  We are asked to share & contribute to its overall upkeep and existence so that others may also know of Life & Mother Nature.  Mankind also is gifted with the same elements that bring Life strength & beauty. Just as the winds sweep the earth, the rains wash & bring strength, the sun productivity, the darkness growth...so does man reap the benefits of accepting Life’s invitation.

Life is a journey of growth & development, the gathering & creation of bricks, to leave something standing when we have come to the end of our travels.  But along the way, “Baby the rain must fall”.   Whether or not we opt to run from gathering clouds or experience the sustenance it has to offer is another matter! Sooner or later, you will not be able to out run the ‘storm’ nor have the strength to endure the path of destruction it has taken. 

I am a firm believer that ‘reverse psychology’ is the greatest tool within modern man’s arsenal! It is the ‘golden key’ to living & not merely ‘existing’, but it is not attained without ‘sacrifice of self’.  Just as the rain provides sustenance to man & the earth, leading to productivity..so does the misery, pain & tears of man lead to ‘growth & advancement’ if he sees it as an endowment of strength from life.  

Many times we experience loss, pain & misery that tears our person in two...we become weak & withered...we want life just to leave us the hell alone!!! So we impose prisons, firewalls & force shields to protect us during our existence. We become miserable, beat up on our person or lash out at others outside of the comfort zone we have created for ourselves, for our lack of strength to embrace life again. Fear becomes our soul mate & life’s shadow...our character becomes stagnate. We know the sun exists but can’t feel it’s warmth, there’s too many clouds that hover above us, the sewer within our hearts has become too full.

“Baby the Rain must fall”...let your tears flow, cleanse your heart & person. Allow for new challenges, personal resolve & new chapters to be written within your life.  Do not allow life the satisfaction of destroying your whole book over the destruction of just one chapter or leg of your journey. Life gives as well as it takes...it knows all too well the tool of ‘compromise’, the feel of pain & destruction...the rewards of birth & growth.

Life’s rain provides us with the strength to break ‘old chains’ & tear asunder the self-imposed prisons we’ve created that deter our growth, advancement & journey. Get your strength today...slow down long enough for life to catch up to you...release the flood gates to your pain, misery & old scars to allow the sun to shine again down upon you.

Just a few thoughts....

With Love & Respect for Life itself....

Lady Gray