Homesick
We all know people who moved to far away cities in search of a better life—only to discover that the life they found was a lot like the one they left because greatness is an inside job. And no matter where you go, you can’t get away from yourself. If you were a mess in Chicago the odds are you will be mess in New York. Changing your address won’t make your life any better until you change your mind. Real change happens in the heart. And long before you will ever be able to change your life, you must be about the business of transforming your thinking one thought at a time.
Lil Wayne is right. Staying within yourself is how you learn how to be at home wherever you are. And yes, you can be at home wherever you are even if it’s not where you want to be. There are too many people who suffer from “homesickness” because they are never at home within themselves. We think the grass is always greener in other places but people are people and nobody’s life is perfect. Loving yourself is one thing, but being at home with who you are is an entirely different journey altogether.
And the genius of Lil Wayne in this video is that he understands that we reproduce how we feel about ourselves in almost everything we do. Our homes, our relationships, our jobs, our finances, and even our spiritual lives tell the hidden story of what we think about ourselves when nobody is looking. In spite of the public displays that we make, there lives within us a secret conversation that we have about ourselves, and the results of this conversation can be devastating if the words we use are full of fear and insecurity. The great struggle in life is to protect your heart against all the things that come to make you small. Understand that people who don’t know how to protect their hearts don’t know how to protect their homes, their jobs, their money, or their families; because whenever you lose yourself, everything connected to you is lost in the process.
Just like music, life is personal and the only way to be good at it is to be intentional. Today we celebrate imagination and all the people who dare to be themselves. We see you. You inspire us. You make us want to go home.
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