THIS WEEK'S SUPER SOUL SHORT HAS CIRCLED THE
GLOBE, SPREADING THE EXTRAORDINARY VISION OF
SPOKEN WORD ARTIST, ACTIVIST (AND SUPER SOUL 100
VISIONARY) PRINCE EA. AN INVITATION TO ASK
YOURSELF --SUPERSOULERS-- ARE YOU TRULY LIVING
THE LIFE YOU WANT? It is not death most people are afraid of. It
is getting to the end of life only to realize that you never truly lived.
There was a study done a hospital study on one hundred elderly people,
facing death close to their last breath They were asked to reflect about
their lives biggest regret. Nearly all of them said they regretted not the
things they did but the things they didn't do. The risks they never took,
the dreams they didn't pursue. I asked you will your last words be, if I
only I had, hey you ,wake up why do you exist? Life is not simply
meant to work wait for the weekend and pay rent. No No I don't know
much but I know this, every person on this earth has a gift. I apologize
to the black community but I can no longer pretend, Martin Luther
King, that man never had a dream That dream had him See people
don't choose dreams, dreams choose them So the question I'm getting
to, is do you have the courage to grab the dream that picked you, that
befits you and grips you or will you let it get away and slip through.
You know I learned a fact about airplanes the other day. Now this this
was so surprising see. I was talking to a pilot and he told me that many
of his passengers think planes are dangerous to fly in. But he said
actually, it is a lot more dangerous for a plane to stay on the ground. I
said what..like how does that sound? He said he said because on the
ground the plane starts to rust, malfunction, and ware much faster than it
ever would if it was in the air. As I walked away I thought, yeah
makes total sense because planes were built to live in the skies and every
person was built to live out the dream they have inside so it is perhaps
the saddest lost to live a life on the ground without ever taking off. See
most of us are afraid of the thief, that comes in the night to steal all of
our things but there is a thief in your mind who is after your dreams. His
name is doubt. If you see him call the cops and keep him away from the
kids 'cause he is wanted for murder for he has killed more dreams than
failure ever did. He wears many disguises and like a virus will leave
you blinded, divided, and turn you into a "kinda". See "kinda" is lethal.
You know what "kinda" is. It's a lot of "kinda" people. You kinda want
a career change, you kinda want to get straight As, you kinda want to
get in shape. Simple math, no numbers to crunch, if you kinda want
something than you will kinda get the results you want. What is your
dream? What ignites that spark? You can't kinda want that. You gotta
want it with every part of your whole heart. Will you struggle? Yeah.
Yeah you will struggle, no way around it. You will fall many times but
who's counting? Just remember, there's no such thing as a smooth
mountain. If you want to make it to the top, then there are sharp ridges
that must be stepped over. There will be times you get stressed and
things you get depressed over but let me tell you something, Steven
Spielberg was rejected from film school three times, three times but he
kept going. The television execs fired Oprah, said she wasn't fit for TV
but she kept going. Critics told Beyonce that she couldn't sing, she
went through depression but she kept going. Struggle and criticisms are
prerequisites for greatness. That is the law of this universe and no one
escapes it because pain is life. When you can choose what type, either
the pain on the road to success or the pain of being haunted with regret.
You want my advice, don't think twice. We have been given a gift that
we call life so don't blow it. You are not defined by your past instead
you are born anew in each moment so own it now. Sometimes you
gotta leap and grow your wings on the way down. You better get the shot
off before the clock runs out 'cause ain't no overtime in life, no do
over. And I know I sound like I'm preaching or speaking with force but
if you don't use your gift then you sell not only yourself but the whole
world short. So what invention do you have buried in your mind? What
idea? What cure? What skill do you have inside to bring out to this
universe? Uni meaning one, verse meaning song. You have a part to
play in this song so grab that microphone and be brave. Sing your heart
out on life's stage. You can not go back and make a brand new
beginning but you can start now and make a brand new ending.