Re – Create Yourself … Shed Skin like a Snake

In life as in the moment of your untimely death, you ought to reject society sculpts molds and coffins by not reincarnating its clichés, chestnuts and formulas.  Forge yourself an identity of your own by mixing the past and the present, what is respected and what has been forgotten, nostalgia and the taste of new …An identity that command veneration and never spells out monotony. You either chose to be master of your own image and persona or others will define it for you. Once you become the prostitute through other people ocular lens… you double down on your luck of standing out like gold in the mist of low-grade metals.

If you do not chose an identity, people will force their choices on you…Sometimes we can be stuck in rut, repeating the same tired methods, by trying to be something we are not. Recreating your self does not mean being a carbon copy of something you do not understand, it means growing, seeing the world with a fresh pair of eyes, it means adding value to who your are, by picking a skill like the piano, a language like Spanish, or a sport like hockey …

It means changing your Skin… like snakes do …

“Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Faciebat Anno [date],”

Antonius Stradivarius Cremonensis Facibat Anno

In 1644, in Cremona Italy, a young man by the name of Antonio Stradivari had gifted hands for violin making at the tender age of twenty-two. His passion and skills translated into the highest standard of violin making to this day. A genuine Stradivarius will fetch couple thousand if not millions. Scientists know the entire ingredients list to build the perfect violin but still are flummoxed on how Antonio did it 300 years ago…  for it still cannot be replicated …

Knowledge is only half the battle when you know how to use it …

      I can circle mother earth in order to find the sweetest brown sugar, the softest president’s butter, 3 eggs from biologically raised hens, a few drops of vanilla and cinnamon, some pink salt from the famous pink lake in Senegal and finally some old fashioned oat meal.  These are the ingredients needed to make world class Vanishing oatmeal cookies that do not vanish when they come out of the oven.  I can have the instruction written in your mother tongue on how to prepare it...So what are your chances of success if you’ve never stepped into a kitchen?

Truth is, what you put in matters just as much as what comes out … and vice-versa.