Blog 326 – 06.28.2016

I am a life long Star Trek fan and old enough to have seen the originals as they aired for the first time on television. In the first round of movies there was a great line where Spock tells Kirk that the reason he is unhappy as an Admiral is that his first best destiny was being a Starship Captain. What is your first best destiny?

Chances are that if you are the happiest you have ever been in your life, where you want to be, doing what you want to do, and surrounded by the people and things that you love that you are living your first, best destiny. If you are not, why not?

A preacher I once knew told everyone that they needed to get under the spout where the blessings come out. Bless simply put means to make happy and blessed means happy. Elvis Presley in an early hit song, All Shook Up, sings, “Well, bless my soul what’s wrong with me? I’m itching like a man on a fuzzy tree. People say I’m acting wild as a bug. I’m in love. I’m all shook up.”

When that song came out over fifty years ago a lot of older people did not care very much for the young hip swinging Presley but it wasn’t long before almost everyone had to agree that Elvis Aaron Presley’s first, best destiny was entertaining us all with his voice and that earned him a royal title rare in the United States as The King of Rock ‘n Roll.

But what of you and me. Everyone does not get to be The King of Rock ‘n Roll or The King of Pop or Prince or Duke or even Earl as the Cowardly Lion so aptly put it. But we do have a brain, a heart, and the nerve so we to can achieve our first, best destiny. And, no, that is not to be Bobby’s Girl, or Bobbie’ Guy, or Stacy’s Mom or Dad. A destiny is something only you can do or be. And nothing will give you more happiness and satisfaction than doing and being what you came here to do and be.

How do I figure out what and who that is? I suggest you start with a heart to heart with the only one who knows – you. Ask the question to your heart of hearts and take a baby step in the direction that your heart leads. Follow that inner compass and stop listening to all those negative voices that say “You can’t do that.” And, by God, prove them wrong.

As children we used to count our buttons as we buttoned them, “Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, Indian chief.” All the possibilities and all we had to figure out was what we wanted. People would ask, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Well, what will it be? The choice is still yours.

Your friend and fellow traveler,
David White