Advices
I've been enamored by numerous initiatives on #hive.
So much so that I've been forced to leave the earliest one's which I joined and was active in simply due to the fact that there simply isn't enough time in the day 😂.
Regardless, I'll still try to post on all of them, even if it means combining them like I am about to do now.
#ttt is an initiative by @ablaze which I'm thoroughly in love with.
Who doesn't love music?
Regardless, due to different off hive issues, I haven't really been able to post on it for some time.
At such, I deliberately made time today so I can share my own pick of tunes for this week's entry.
Yet the new initiative which I got to know about due to @honeydue is a fairly new one creates by @ericvancewalton called #memoirmonday.
An initiative when people make posts replying various questions about life which @ericvancewalton will post weekly in hopes of masking something of a memoire for our next generation...
I found it quite intriguing and wanted to be a part of it.
You can read all about it here.
Now the memoire monday question for this week was by coincidence one which fitted quite easily with my tunes for today.
What advice would you give to future generations of your family.
When one would read or think of a question like this, he or she (like me) may be immediately flooded with thousands of potential advices yet may not be able to hold one.
Naturally, advices are pieces of wisdom and guidance one is able to give due to them being gleaned from different experiences. So if one lives a long life, one that he may see at least two of his future generations.
As they may say in my mother tongue.
Experience go boku
And the various advices would be even more.
After thinking about it for almost thirty minutes, and left with the makings of a bad headache, I decided to leave it all together and go after #ttt
- Advice #1: Don't overthink things. It never helps.
While skimming through the artists, I realized it's been a while since I listened or wrote about NF.
And that's when inspiration flowed in..
It was like the music was the fishing net I needed to catch advices from the flood.
- Advice #2: Always listen to quality music.
2 advices down already 😂
Hence, while listening to NF, I realized the amount of golden advices that are embed in plenty of his songs.
Yet I won't post about all, I'd post about the three most important ones.
The ones I just have a guy feeling might trouble my younger generation based of what I'm experiencing right now.
Thanks for reading through the intro.
This is a post collaboration of the two initiatives #ttt and #memoiremonday...
Advice Tunes.
The Search.
The Power of the mind is a scary thing. It controls pain, hate, love, greed and fear.
In other words, he who has mastered the mind, has mastered himself and as such, he has mastered the world.
~seki1
As I've grown older, I've become accustomed to how greatly the mind affects my output. Not only as a content creator, but as a human being.
If your mind is weak, your body is weak.
If you've lost yourself up there mentally, well there's nothing you're doing down here in the physical.
In this song, NF was talking about his battles with OCD, trying to understand what was happening and how he could battle it.
This song is the intro to his album which had the same name. The album was filled with songs that when played it easily symbolizes one's search of self.
Yet no song hits the nail on the head more than this one.
My advice to my kids, grandkids, etc from this song is simple;
Always keep searching. Your mind and imagination is endless, never let your curiosity dull and never strive to be perfect, only try to constantly improve.
If You Want Love.
People make a serious mistake in thinking you give to those whom you love, while the true answer is; You love to those who you give.
~Rabbi Dessler
Companionship is a truly beautiful thing. Spending your time with someone, giving them your time, and your heart.
Putting pieces of them in you as they collect pieces of you in them. This is love.
NF talks about his experiences with loneliness. Reminiscing to the time with his mother, he remembers how he truly felt love at that moment and thus sings about the condition of getting that love.
Change, trust and the ability to give the same type of love you want to collect.
My advice to my future generations from this song is a bit complex and long. as all matters regarding love are.
If you've found a partner, be ready to invest in her/him. Be ready to go all in, for there are no stop loss or half bets in love.
Although when going all in don't be misguided. One being nice to you isn't love. A few spare compliments isn't love. Love is true and love is real. Love isn't easy to find, love is definitely not easy to keep.
When you've gone all in and come up empty, don't fall into despair. Fall back into the love of your family and friends. Then when you're ready, go all in again.
Most importantly. NEVER GIVE UP ON LOVE.
- Remember This.
Man is a master of tools. The ability to bend and use tools is a trait and skill he has hones for his survival. It's ironic really, because mans most useful tool is not the hammer, saw or bow and arrow. Man's most useful tool is indeed another man.
~seki1
In this song, NF talks about his experiences with people. How people tend to try and use others, trying to use others as stepping stone in other to get to other places.
They lie, cheat, change, anything for their own benefits.
They can try to drag you down, make life hard and diminish your hardwork yet when you rise beyond all those odds they'll come close as friends.
My Advice from this song is exactly the same with what he's preaching;
Be wary of People. Never show your full hand in front of a crowd.
Every crowd has a Judas, every good friend can easily be you worst enemy. Life is uncertain and people are even more fickle.
Be Independent.
Those are my three tunes and my advices. As always you can check out @ericvancewalton and @ablaze blogs on Monday's and Tuesday's every week respectively for their individual rocking initiatives!!
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