It’s been a while… That seems to be my new opening line, but oh well…
This might be my last post for 2013 but I hope not. *I best focus on what I wanted to post before I drift off…
It’s midnight and I lack sleep (Caused by drinking an energy drink with my supper *Great Idea).
As I lay awake and tried to figure out how to sleep, I remembered something I once read on Facebook from a guy called Jacket Shop, it said something along the lines of “When you suffer from insomnia, use that time to do something positive and harness that energy” (I’m paraphrasing heavily). So I figured I’d take that advice and tap into this un-nurtured “talent” of mine.
2013 has been a year that is and was filled with a lot of teachings for me personally and a lot of those lessons involved other people helping me learn something, intentionally or otherwise. These people added something positive or negative to my life and in doing so helped me grow in ways that I didn’t know I was capable of. Some of you might be wondering why I mentioned the positive and negative in the same breath or why I said some people “added” something negative. I did so because I believe a person consists of both positive and negative energies, as much as we like to acknowledge the positive more than the negative. A blend of both energies is what makes us who we are.
The thing that drove or motivated this post is a status I posted on Facebook, “I hate that until you find someone to fill a certain role in your life, you always miss the person who used to…” The third and fourth needs on Maslow’s hierarchy of needs pyramid is Love/Belonging and Esteem, both of these involve other people. So in the journey that is a person’s life we find people to satisfy those too needs. Keep in mind that these are NEEDS and not wants, so as much as some of y’all might think that you don’t actually “need” other people in your lives I would beg to differ. The people that fulfil these needs come in different forms, from family to friends to lovers or companions and these people fill a certain part of your being. They play roles that are pivotal to one’s development and when one of those people leave or stop fulfilling that role, one is left with a void that stays there until someone comes along to fill it. You might be thinking how someone else can play a role of someone like your mother for example, but remember I said “fill/fulfil the role” not become that person. Your mother plays the role of confidant, friend (at times), caregiver etc. That’s what is filled by someone else.
We tend not to realise the importance of the people in our lives ( same as we don’t see the miracles that happen in our lives every second but that’s a topic for another day). We take them for granted right up until the moment they’re no longer there, that’s when we actually realise how important they were. “You don’t value that stale piece of bread until you have absolutely nothing to eat”.
So please take the time to acknowledge and appreciate the void that the people in your lives fill. Even if it’s something as simple as having someone to chat to when you’re experiencing insomnia…
I am who/what/where/how/when/why I am
TechniQue12…
Midnight Sun 