POWER: part 1 - Rising

Cartoons. It’s not just that I enjoy them, it’s that they are the threads to the fabric of my soul. You don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ve only ever met one person who did. That’s not what I’m here to talk about. I’m here to talk about power.

Webster describes power succinct and perfect as the “ability to act or produce an effect.” Over the past few months I have felt myself rising in power – advancing my abilities to act and certainly producing the effects. A cartoon, Yu Yu Hakasho, helped me recognize that building my power has been my desire from the start. Transcendentalism, Buddhism, Wicca all the things that I have always believed in and always followed are simply roads to building power. Tai Chi, Reiki, coming of age stories. I’ve been walking this path since childhood.

The epiphany came from a Yu Yu Hakasho character Hiei. Hiei spent his life building his power for revenge. He had no great dreams, no perfect destiny. His only mission was one of constant self improvement. When he finally realized he was powerful enough to have his revenge, he realized that it didn’t really matter to him anymore. He continued to build his power, but with no real motivation, he decided to give up and die. On his resurrection it became clear that it no longer mattered why he had the power, just that he had it. A greater destiny was about to find him, and all he had to do was be ready to handle it.

I realize now, as I have since I was a child, that I have a greater destiny. I always thought it was my job to search blindly for it but now I realize that when I am ready, it will find me. As far as I know, power can be built only by education and training. If you know another way, please enlighten me. I will continue to build mine, I’m hungry for it. There is only one thing in existence that I want more. Calm. I guess that’s why I wrote this series in parts.