What book titles and stories have you written from your younger self? What advice would you give your younger self after reading what you've written? (If it was in a self help style as mine was).
I am half Italian, 1/4 Sicilian, and Heinz 57 Variety as my late Grandma Rose used to say. So, being that my mother returned to her maiden name of Ferrari when I was a child after her divorce, I often dabbled with this a pseudo name as it is a family name. For writers, remements of older writings remind us that it is a gift from God to be able to express oneself by writing.
I just came across a manuscript introduction that I wrote when I was twenty two years of age, how I know this is I actually wrote the date on the paper!
Inspiration strikes at odd hours, 1:00 am, Sunday, December 12th, 1993. Look out M. Scott Peck of the Road Less Traveled. One of the up and coming inspirational bestsellers, Here's A Penny, Now Go Find the Fountain of Your Dreams, by, Gina Ferrari.
Step 1: Believe In Yourself
Madonna, no not the mother of Christ, rather the mother of pop culture said it best in her song, Spotlight.
No one know you better than you know yourself, do the things you want, don't wait for someone else. Life is just a party, that's all you need to know, it's your turn to shine baby, let yourself go!
Life to a large extent is built on the mentality, the survival of the fittest. The strong survive and the weak live to some extent a meager existence. Believing in oneself is hard because there are so many external forces that may be pulling us down. People we may consider our friends and family. We may be involved in a destructive cycle or patterns with them that defies logic. (off the topic-love). Because we believe these people love us and since they love us therefore they must know "what's best for us." In effect if we believe that others know what's best for us and have our best interest at heart, we in effect give up our power and allow family, friends to lead our lives and decide for us. Human nature is such that we desire strength, afterall if we are going to survive we need all the power we can get a hold of. If you are going to believe in yourself you have to have your own best interest at heart. You can't rely on family or friends to tell you what to do with your life.
People that really love you may guide you but they won't dictate for you. You have too much self respect and won't allow it. This brings up the whole issue of what is really love.
Love is an action, caring. True love has no room for jealousy or envy. Love is trying our darnest to meet the needs of the other person, not our own self-centered needs, love is kind, mutual, listens well, rarely criticizes, provides direction and opportunity for growth. Love requires work. Not one sided work. We are all constantly changing every second of every minute of every day. Dr. Deepak Chopkra in his book, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind hits home with this point, "We grow a new liver once a year and rejuvenate our skin once a month." Because we are always changing, we ourselves have different viewpoint on our being. What's most important is that you accept yourself as a unique individual. some people may sound like you, or may look like you, they are currently working on cloning (a brave new scary world, but when alls said and done, you are you. No one else thinks like you, sees like you, hears like you, has dreams like you or feels like you.) sure you may have similarities or things in common with people, but no one is you or can ever be you.
You have a soul! There are no clearcut answers in life and to write a book that says, "You're unique and that's it just isn't enough." The life experience is not black and white-it's filled with a lot of gray and that gray needs to be explored, to show that there is nothing to disprove no scientific physical or otherwise that we aren't unique!
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