WORLD OF SECOND HANDERS

I love buying second-hand clothes. I love the hand me downs from my

sister-because she has a feminine style which I don't. But, here I am

not talking about material possessions I am talking about people. See,

I know people are different. We all have a mind and I cannot think for

you or breathe for you-there are certain things that just cannot come

to be. When I say 'think' I have no control over what comes to your

mind-what I have control over is your integrity to the thought and

also your being. Let me expound on that: say I ask 'what do you think

of hope?' and you say 'hope is hanging on when things get tough and

bleak' -that there is your thought. How can I control it? Well, I can

start by saying 'why must you hang onto something? first of all what

do you mean by hanging? Give me a tangible answer.' There- I have

controlled your thought-confined it to a dimension be demanding that

it fits into a criteria-if you do as I say, the I shall have taken

your integrity and streamlined your thought into what I know-and not

given you the chance to show what hope might be.

We live in a world of second handers. Second handers are parasites.

They do not think for themselves. They let another create and demand

to benefit from that creation. Second handers simply copy paste what

has been.

I have been out on the field for a while-and it hit me, that though

most workplaces desire variety-they do nothing to see the variety

grow. In a previous post "Stop stealing Dreams" I had talked of this.

The schools teach uniformity, employers seek diversity. But this

diversity is only limited to the brain-and nothing else. It is

sickening.

Second handers will often say 'it has been done like this before' or

'this is how we do things around here' or 'our policy hasn't changed

over the years-because it works well.'

If you sit down to a public lecture- all that's there is second hand

information. The speaker talks and people ask questions about the

talk-not the inspiration behind the talk. See, what you get when you

leave is second hand information. Who's to say that if you went online

you'd not find that information?

If you simply sit on the receiving end-you are killing your self. Most

people in the world have been taught to live for others. I was taught

to live for the well-being of others. I was taught to love my neighbor

as myself-and I know that in loving myself I have to

create-produce-make something grand out of what I have and seek what I

don't have but need. It is only then that I can purely love my

neighbor.

We have to put a stop to the thrive of second handers-by first letting

people know that they have to cultivate their minds. They have to

create and produce things that no one has-because they can and because

that is the best way to thrive in this world. Second-if you have read

this post thus far-are you a second hander?

Are you the type of person who reads a book, listens to music,or makes

conversation without knowing why? Are you the kind of person who would

rather have others do things and you take the glory by saying you were

in their team or their team leader?

Are you the kind of person who will read this and simply nod and

comment that I am right-and do nothing about building your knowledge

on second handers?

If so, just stop-think it through and start using your mind-build on

information.

My favorite character, Howard Roark, in The Fountainhead, asks "if any

man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal

desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, efforts,

dreams and ambitions are motivated by men."

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How can one change the world if one identifies oneself with everybody?