Meetta Talks,-Your Talent (s)

Hey Meetta Talks Readers!
Before I share some more of my life's journey, I want to share with you a little bit of one of my favorite songs. It is relevant to this weeks sharing.

SAY

By John Mayer

"...Have no fear for givin' over!

Have no fear for givin' in

You better know that in the end,

It's better to say too much

than to never say what you need to say again"...

Even as your hands are shakin,'

And your faith is broken,

Even as your eyes are closin',

Do it with a heart wide open...

A wide heart

chorus;

Say what you need to say,

Say what you need to say...

Say what you need to say etc..."

Meetta's Talk Topic for today is:

How are you using the talents you've been given?

Never mind the obstacles and negative people talk!

Even the ordinary about you can be made extraordinary if you PREPARE, PERSIST and PURSUE!

Passion is a valuable key also.

SO, WHAT IS ORDINARY ABOUT YOU?

One of my passions is writing.

When I am writing , I feel strong and free. It is scary also because I know as I open up and offer my writings to the world, there will be people who don't agree with what I write, the views I take and people can be quite judgemental, also cruel. Still, I write! That passion in me drives through that fear and I still manage to say what I need to say, the way I need to say it!

Some people also think I am a great talker. Someone even told me on yesterday, that she read my blog and I speak just like I write. She said as she was reading it, she heard my voice playing in her head. She thought it fascinating! Reader, read my profile, I told you I have a strange voice, pleasantly so though.

The things is, people who have met me, don't usually believe that I used to be shy. Painfully so! In fact, I was so shy that if you hit me on the back of the head I would just shrivel up and not say anything, BUT that was a long, long, long time ago and don't you try it now...! I'm smiling a tough smile.

Seriously folks, somewhere along the line, with a lot of tough love and support from others, I found my voice! Ever since, it just kept getting louder and louder!!! Even on paper! I have found that words have a mighty way of getting right to the heart of the matter. Words, even silent words can "hit you where you live", depending on what your going through and what you are reading. The right words can leap right off the page and change your life forever!

In any case, I love sharing what I have learned.

I love to learn and grow! I take the opportunities that life hands me. Like, I absolutely adore meeting people from other parts of the world! To me,meeting them is an adventure, especially considering I have not yet been able to afford to travel to all of the places my heart desires.

When I was 7 years old, one of my mothers visiting friends asked me what I wanted to be and do when I grew up? I remember this because I did not miss a beat (or a step) as I was dancing to "The Jackson Five" singing ABC...my answer was, "I'm going to travel the world, (meet all kind of interesting people) take pictures of it and show the world how beautiful it really is." I knew I wouldn't be a famous photographer, always some kind of talker! Though, at 7 years old, I didn't know what to call the kind of career I was talking about. It has to be something in entertainment though, because I loved to dance and music was my thang! Yep, I said thang! (Smile)

Well, I am WAY past 7 years of age, and I am a professional talker (currently on a small scale, very small), but I do very much enjoy being around people who know more than I do on different subjects of interests. People who have interesting careers and hold different positions,

I find it all quite interesting ! I wanna know what else is out there!...Always did. The world is much bigger than Detroit, Michigan. I wanna know, taste and experience life, THE GOOD PARTS of it, that is!. AAH!!! I wanna live out loud and use my life to do great things for other people too. I don't want it all for myself. Though, we come into this world by ourselves, our lives are built to live for, with and around other people.

Velma Gilmore of Clinton Township, a 91 year old woman that I work with, (Yep she's still working and sharp as a tack too! She says we keep her young! me smiling).

Moving on though, one day she said to me, "the moment you stop learning is the moment you start dying. First you die mentally, then spiritually. Not too long after that everything is downhill because that is when you REALLY GET OLD!" you start to break down physically and everything is downhill from there. It's important to keep learning, keep your mind sharp. It is even more imiportant that you share what you know with other people because you don't know how many lives your life has and will touch. You can't always know the ways in which you touched them." Thank you Velma!

Sometimes, the only story anyone EVER reads is us! People get inspired by people! For better or for worse. Our story is our actions, the way we treat people, the way we behave, including the way we speak to and about other people! Our individual stories include how we handle difficult and easy situations, what our views are on different topics of discussion and how we live out our story. In my blog page, through all 13 of my continued "columns" every week, (Feel Free to check out "Hey Blogger! to find out the titles of those weekly columns) I hope you take "my story" to heart. Feel free to sift through what is useful for you or someone you now and discard the rest.

In closing, I am taking great joy in sharing my writings with you now, despite all obstacles and negative people talk. I will continue to use "my powers for good!...me laughing). Writing regularly again gives me SUCHHHHH a freedom! I trust that in some way , it will do the same for you. Reader, I hope you find something in my "ordinary" that makes your life EXTRA-ordinary!

PREPARE, PERSIST AND PURSUE. You may just be amazed at how your ordinary can be made into something extra-ordinary!

Again, I ask "HOW ARE YOU USING THE TALENTS YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN?"

SEE YOU NEXT WEEK ON .....MEETTA TALKS!