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Chapter 13
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Final Interjection During the course of the past year I realized I didn’t change, I evolved. I didn’t find enlightenment but was enlightened. I didn’t find someone that could answer all of my questions, I found myself. Someone I always knew I was but wouldn’t or couldn’t admit to being. Someone who was so lost inside his own head, he had to understand everything before he could understand himself. I remember my first really really “crazy” idea. That knowledge was transferable. That I could look up into the stars, ask a question, and know the answer. That you could look at a painting a certain way and it would teach you how to see it. It’s taken a year but I realized I was right. When I looked at the greatest work of art, I had to understand it. I had to figure it out. But it was more than that, it was designed to inspire. When you look at it, when you try to answer her many mysteries, they start to answer themselves. The more you stare at her, the more your mind understands. Like looking into the night sky and trying to imagine what it would take to reach a star. To ascent to heaven and meet the gods. Once you know it’s possible, you know you can achieve it. The rest is just a matter of time. So when I tried to de-code Da Vinci, I discovered more than a code. I discovered Da Vinci himself. I feel like he understands me more than I understand myself. I feel closer to him than anyone else in this world. I remember how I used to be, how I used to think, how I used to feel so little. I went from not caring about anything or anyone but myself to wanting to “save the world”; To solve all of life’s biggest problems and help as many people as I could. I remember thinking that I had to write down everything I knew. The only fear I possessed was not being able to tell the world what I only I could. What it seemed no one else would. I went from quitting a mediocre job making 10$ an hour to writing a book to help kids growing up. Then to learning how to make money online, but never trying. Then to 4 days of what seemed like insanity that introduced a new path. A path I never ever imagined my life taking. Answering questions I never knew needed asking. Being able to not just see something no one else could in a painting but a glimpse of a perfect world. A world where there isn’t hunger, or hate, or discrimination. A world where everyone works together for a common good, a greater good, and for a better world. A United World, not just united states and countries and families and churches. Maybe what I once thought was crazy is the sanest thought there is. Maybe we can be perfect – how are you going to know unless you try?. Maybe in a world where everyone is in it for themselves and only the people they love – we can learn to love everyone. Maybe all our differences are what make us the same. Maybe someday soon we’ll look past the past and towards the future. A future worth living for, a future worth dying for, a future we all deserve.
Maybe there isn’t such a thing as destiny or fate but instead the steps it takes to reach our true potential. Maybe God isn’t someone judging us but someone loving us no matter what. Maybe God is a glimpse of our own potential. Maybe God is just another word for love. Maybe life isn’t about winning or loosing or being the first or the best. Maybe someday soon we’ll all look back and laugh about how pathetic we’ve been. Maybe, just maybe, there is more to the world than what we can see but what we can feel. Not what we can touch, but what touches us.
Maybe it’s time for a new beginning. Maybe it’s time we end the waiting. Maybe it has to start with you.
“If Liberty is dear to you, may you never discover that my face is Love’s Prison…” – Leonardo Da Vinci
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