You will figure it out when it all falls down." Haven’t taken a read of my short story, The Black Grasshopper? Check it out here at Wattpad: Read The Black Grasshopper. As I’m preparing to do my “year in review” posts and gather up and box 2016 as a year, I’m thinking of how this year was so filled with ups and downs. There was a lot going on. In simple, I just look at the year as a year of reflection, of personal growth, and as a foundation for a lot of good to come for the future. It’s kind of like what they say in football. 2016 was a rebuilding year.
Years like 2016 remind me of metamorphosis - like it’s a time when one has to sit still in a cocoon to really figure out what it takes to bloom. This year I was proud of one thing, I picked my pen back up this summer and started writing vigorously. I was writing for hours a day, non-stop, and began the full planning of the roll out of a book I have currently in the works. To exhibit some of the work, I published The Black Grasshopper to my Wattpad page (if you’re interested in reading, check out my profile). Essentially, The Black Grashopper is a metaphor for youth, a character I thought up from an actual occurrence in my life. I used to collect grasshoppers as a kid, and nothing was more fascinating to me than the day I came home and witness one of my young hoppers (known as a nymph) molt its black exoskeleton and sporting a new yellow look. At that age, I hadn’t known grasshoppers molted, and thus found truth in Pokemon’s “evolution theory” (spare me, I was 8). 18 years later, though, and as a whole, 2016 really was a year of looking to molt the old and sport the new. The Black Grasshopper is a stubborn and unfortunate character who can’t molt, and hasn’t done so in almost three years. Typically, grasshoppers who can’t molt die, but for him, he is spared by some chance. Rather than figuring out how to grow, he becomes fed up and tries to stop the annual winds that help the other grasshoppers molt. Nearly dying in the process he comes across judgment at the hands of Lord Slug, and finally molts. I think of the trials of 2016 -financial, legal, personal, business, etc - and I think to myself that I could have done more this year. More as an entertainer, as a businessman, as a husband, but I also recognize that it doesn’t mean I have to sulk, or be angry, or even block my blessings. We block our blessings so often sometimes, we don’t even know we’re doing it. We become upset at others’ success; we bad-mouth people; or we accept that “this is how I am” and refuse to move on to our next stage in life. Listening to music this year, there’s so much music encouraging us to grow, to jump, and to bloom, and that alone makes 2016 so unique. I don’t think I’ve heard any bad music this year. I’ve heard music that touched me personally, and I’ve heard music that hasn’t much of an effect on me as a whole. From The Life of Pablo to Passion, Pain, & Demon Slayin, music this year has encouraged us to pick our heads up, narrow our focus, and grow. Likewise, I’m thankful. Through GoodKnocking Entertainment Group, BuzzBoost Social, MRVL, and with the help of the wife, close friends, and personal reflection, 2016 has been a rebuilding year. Being said, 2017 is setting up to be a great year because of what 2016 has been. One must keep their spirit in consideration of moving physical objects.
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