Brush my shoulders off

This paragraph is being posted here as a note to myself during a moment of clarity and I can’t think of another place to write it. On a few different occasions in my life people have told me that if I want to do well in life I need to play the game. They’ll say things like, Stephanie you got smile a little or flirt and the one I hate the most sometime you have to just kiss a little ass. The thing is I’d rather walk naked covered in honey into a bee hive than kiss anyones ass. I think ass kissing is a form of lying and deceit but that is a whole other discussion. So I’ve always prided myself on not playing the game but it just hit me that all these years I have. I’ve been playing other people’s games by _ my_ rules. I need to get out of the game (or games) altogether. Just do my thing. Focus on my goals and my agenda and leave these fools alone.

Ok and now to the post. This goal is never really complete until you life is complete. Like A Well-Read Dog Head said, this is more of a life skill. In the last couple of months I have been brushing my shoulders off consistantly. The difference between now and when I first posted this goal is like night and day. Well… maybe not quite night and day but maybe daybreak and mid morning.

I have good days and bad. On the good days I’m whipping the dirt of my back and shoulders and doing a little dance while doing it. On the bad days I’m lifting a weary arm to brush off the days crap. Struggling to wipe the dust from my eyes and keep my vision because for me that’s the key to this. Keeping my vision and not letting anyone or anything cloud it.

For me one of the things this goal is about is learning to encourage yourself. To pushing foward even when no one is cheering you on. Doing this takes less effort than before. I’m not ready to mark this goal complete yet but almost. Probably in about three months.

The other day my boss was trying to play some sort of head game with me. I honestly didn’t care what his problem or motivation was. I just went about my business. It was quite a liberating feeling.

Dust dirt off your shoulders

To step up. The origin of this term comes from a story in which a donkey falls into a well and cannot get out. The farmer tries to get the donkey out by rope, unsuccessful in his attempt. He decides, instead, to just give up and bury the donkey in the well. As the farmer begins filling the hole with dirt, the donkey becomes depressed, realizing that all of the dirt on his shoulders and back were going to eventually bury him. He then thought of an idea: I can just shake it off and step up. Therefore, he could just die by doing nothing and getting buried, or shake the dirt off his shoulders and step up to the occasion. So when you have a problem, will you shake it off and step up or be buried?

Yet another interpretation may come as a modification to the term ‘dust (or shake) them hataz off’. As more people hate on you, or become envious or angry at you for whatever reason, the dust accumulates into dirt, and soon you’ve gotta ‘dust that dirt off your shoulders’.

“I got po chasin’ me, babies mammas trynta get wit me, so I get them glocks rocks and dust the dirt of my shoulders the cops an them bolders”—Jay-Z

Retrieved from “http://www.rapdict.org/Dust_dirt_off_your_shoulders”