REAL Expressions

Why do people from JA find inspiration so hard to come by? Parents that have children seem to be so miserable half of the time that their children don’t even remember what fun is anymore. Everybody seems to look “overly-serious” as if to say, “Nothing is more stressful than my life”. If that is the case for every Jamaican, what exactly do foreigners see or hear about Jamaica that has them going so crazy over this place?

Travelling brings one of the nicest feelings I can think of when I close my eyes and fantasize about something that interests me… but travelling as a Jamaican??? That shit is off the hook!!! I’ve been going to the states, and it has always been a nice experience. I’ve been to Canada once and that was even better (All those occasions, however, I was always around Jamaicans or they weren’t far away). Who would have guessed that my greatest adventure of all would have been in a country where they don’t even speak English? I will be doing a lot more travelling for the rest of my life... but Mexico has definitely made an impact in my life.

That’s where I started to realize that my environment had a lot to do with the way I thought. I started to feel in charge of my emotions and I didn’t even want to feel any negative vibe around me. Everything I ever wanted to do, I was doing plus more. Anybody that found out I was Jamaican would instantly start asking questions as if they were desperate to absorb the energy that they needed all their life that only a Jamaican could give them. Of course it felt good, but it automatically made me wonder... how come everybody else where I came from couldn’t get this same experience? The more I thought about it was the more life began to make sense.

Everything that we think about continuously will inevitably become our reality. Eventually, I realised the more negative thoughts ran through my head, the more things would be a drag. It took me a while to learn about my “emotional guidance system” which was the dictator of my personality and mentality. Anything that I thought about would either make me feel “ok” or “not ok”. To be clearer, a positive mood would indicate that I was frequently thinking about something cool, and a negative vibe would mean I was thinking negatively for a prolonged period of time. So, even though I eventually figured all that part out, how come inspiration was still hard to come by?

We all can use our energy positively. There are so many things in Jamaica that stand out, that it amazes everybody around the globe. Our music “sell-off”, or dancing “sell-off”, our cuisine, our athletic and sporting prowess, or patois… our whole culture (this link makes JA'can culture pop out of your monitor or whatever you're reading this blog on) sell-off!!! It seems that the whole world gains unlimited positive energy from us; so why can’t we appreciate ourselves as well?

Don't be no drag!