Wake Up Everybody

I thought of this post on New Years but wasn’t sure where to go with it. It’s 2014. I was listening to John Legend, cover Teddy Pendergrass. I also thought of School Daze, at the end, where Lawrence Fishburne told people to wake up. These are my thoughts. They may not make sense. Time to Wake Up.

It’s a new year, a new beginning. Time to wake up everybody. No more sleeping in bed. No more backward thinking. Time for thinking ahead. The world won’t get no better if we just let it be. The world won’t get no better. We gotta change it. Just you and me. Surely things will work out. The only thing we have to do is put it in our minds. They do every time.

Wake up everybody. We are practicing Abstinence or Celibacy. This road definitely is not easy. Anything worth doing brings forth a challenge. Not everyone will understand why you (or I) decided to live sex-free. A teacher once told me when you start moving to a different level, not everyone will understand. Not everyone will like it. Not everyone will support you, but that’s ok. With every challenge, you need to seek out people, who are going through the same thing. Someone, who will understand your new and future challenges. Someone to be empathetic, not sympathetic.

For example, in church, the teacher said when we move forward in the faith, we need to re-assess our friendships and relationships. We can’t go to the same places anymore and expect different results. The same principle applies to living a sex-free life. We need to re-assess ourselves; re-assess our friendships; re-assess our relationships. Next, Kenny Pugh was also discussing how we need to meet new people and stop hanging around people, who limit us. Pugh also said we need to declutter our lives. We need to get rid of things, we do not need anymore.

I am a book and product reviewer. I love books, but I don’t have the space to keep every book I have read, unless it is meaningful (and I will read it or reference it more than once). Same thing for products: If someone else can use it more frequently than I, give it away. I just don’t have the room for it. I went through my things this weekend and boxed up three boxes full of books, magazines, and newspapers. I gave away three or four bags of clothes to the church in November.

I am also re-thinking an old friendship. Someone, who I used to be close to- hit me up the other day. We have not talked in years. After talking with him on the phone, I’m not sure if we'll ever be close again.  I still have a long way to go in cleaning out the clutter in my room and still have to work on the clutter in my mind.

Time to Wake-Up Everybody.

Wake up. (S)he is not interested in you. (S)he does not want to date you (S)he will not return your calls, texts, and instant messages.

Wake up. (S)he wants sex only. (S)he does not want a relationship. Maybe (S)he wants kids (or does not want kids) and you don’t (or do). (S)he does not want to marry you or have anything to do with you.

Wake up Everybody  (A poem by Me)

Wake up Everybody.

Time is not standing still.

Time waits for no one.

Still got a void to fill.

Life is moving forward.
Why you lagging behind?

No point in waiting on someone, who does not have you at heart

Time go let them go.

No death till yall part.

Wake up everybody.

Time to delete that “friend”

More interested in tempting than relating.

Stop settling for someone, who is judging you

Stop dating someone, who is dating you

Stop wasting time with someone, incompatible with you.

Let them go, let them go, let them go.

No point in holding on when you are slowly losing your soul

Ate the poison apple, slowly dying inside.

Feelings you suppressed, repressed inside, bubbling over to the outside.

No longer can you hide the pain

Wake up Everybody. It’s a new year. New Beginning.

Go to church. Volunteer. Go back to school. Write a book. Re-assess your dating standards (Kenny Pugh). Refocus on your kids. Declutter, de-stress. Discover your purpose. Walk more. Eat healthier. Go Ahead and tell everybody, you the (wo)man, you the (wo)man, you the (wo)man.

@2014 Stacie D. Wyatt. Celibacy Diaries.