I Own The World
Gooood evening everybody!
This post does NOT have anything to do with music promotion AT ALL! So if that’s what you’re looking for, stop reading.
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Have you stopped reading yet? No? Ha! I knew saying that would make you read on! Here’s something short that I wrote on my way from sunny South Africa to freezing Amsterdam back in January whilst waiting for the second plane to arrive after having missed my transfer. Just something short, but inspirational. Something for every artist to keep in mind when you have one of those times in your career where nothing seems to be looking up for you:
I sit at Heathrow airport, waiting for the next plane to Amsterdam to arrive as I just missed my transfer – my elbows on my knees and my hands stroking each other with fingers outstretched as a type of animated prayer. My sleeves are rolled up with tattoos showing and I’m slowly moving my head from left to right and from right to left as I scan the area around me and the people it contains. I don’t blink, yet I don’t stare. I merely sit there looking around at everybody with a rather cold look, my natural expression, with half of my face continuously covered by my ‘praying’ hands. I can see how I intimidate some of the people. In fact, I intimidate most of those that see me sitting there, ’staring’ at them. I don’t care. I’ve always kind of had a thing for intimidating people. The look they return me; the extra steps they take to walk around me with extra space; how they’ll quickly walk on whilst glancing back and forth a few more times, attempting to go about it as stealth fully as possible. The ironic thing is, I hate people seeing me for what I am not. And I’m definitely not a guy to be scared of. If you treat me the way you’d like me to treat you, that is. Yet, I get some type of enjoyment out of seeing how capable I am of intimidating people, making them feel uncomfortable, ’scaring’ them. I guess it all has to do with standing out. I’ll take the limelight in any way possible, as I believe I was born to be a permanent habitant of its exposing shine. And for me, unless I’m playing chess with words, there is no easier way to stand out than to simply be the intimidating, cold looking, mysterious boy sitting across the room from you; looking you straight into your eyes without a blink and without shame.
Some have told me it makes me seem arrogant. Like I have a typical ‘I don’t give a shit. The world belongs to me’ attitude. But let me tell you something: the world DOES belong to me. Each one of us lives in our own world, a world we create ourselves everyday with the seemingly unbreakable tools we call our thoughts. The people and objects around us would be nothing without our own thoughts about them to give us emotions and make them what they are to us. They always say, ‘beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’; so does everything else. Look at the world around you in a negative manner, and you’ll end up living in a sad world filled with misfortune and sorrow and everything to lose. Look at the world around you in a positive manner, and you’ll end up living in the opposite: a world filled with opportunity and everything to gain. Those thoughts, the thoughts that shape the world around you to make it what it is to you, are yours. Same way as the thoughts that shape the world around me to make it what it is to me, are mine. I can change the world within a day, merely by changing my thoughts, and in turn, changing what i see in the world and thus, changing the effect that it has on me. If I wish to see murder in a dead man, I will see murder. If I wish to see future re-incarnation instead, I will see that. This world, the world I breathe, cry, smile and bleed in, the world I live in, is nothing but a product of my own thoughts, my own mind. I alone hold complete power to change the world into whatever I wish it to be. So do you. So do all of us. Which is why, the world belongs to you, and only you. The same way it belongs to me. And only me. The world is mine. And I will do what I wish with it. I am no ordinary person. For I own the world.
Inspiring, innit? As always, comments go below!
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wow, this is just so inspirational. it makes me feel like my own perspective and perception of the world can bring about change within just a few seconds!
LET’S ALL CHANGE THE WORLD!
You never cease to amaze me homey!!!!! WOW!!!!!!!