Who shall guard the lives of those who have found their way inside of themselves? The answer is obvious. Who will guard the life that we have that is challenged by our own efficiency and deficiencies? Who is in charge? The idea that there is a lifeguard for our lives is veiled in our inability to really comprehend the notion of freedom of choice. We are living in a time when one can discern one’s entire health status from one single drop of blood. One’s genealogy and family history can be traced through just a drop of blood, and yet we still inquire “who is the lifeguard watching over all of us?”
In terms of our careers and our future jobs, occupations and vocations, we still query about who the lifeguard is. Unfortunately, we do these things without being in the proper place, like in front of a mirror, or in front of a power circle of individuals who will walk with us through life and give us an honest assessment of where we are. Who is the lifeguard?
Fastening our economic ties to salacious ideas of financial returns exceeding eight per cent, or three to four percent above the standard rate on a CD at a bank, would mean that you’re flying too near the sun and high risk investments. Why loan a person money who has no means to repay you, and perhaps no intention of ever doing so. What futures are you betting on and is the destruction of a relationship — family and friends — worth upholding the image of a financier who can be bought for a few pieces of silver?
Who will guard your life and your reputation as you dance lewdly on a pole and the incident may be immediately tweeted out to the masses or will appear on Facebook to degrade you and humiliate your children. Are you making yourself vulnerable to the trappings of tangible, but void rewards that are limited in their usefulness and are valueless currency in an emotional exchange? The shelf life for prosperity varies with external conditions and at some point it does expire, while your soul will not.
Who sanctions you to be great? Who sanctions you to challenge your station in life, and the choices that lead you down the path to a dead end? Yet you are not analyzing where and how and what you should be doing and you stay in place and do not move. Who is the lifeguard for what you choose to do and why are you waiting to be saved? Why would you need a lifeguard and why would you not already have surrounded yourself with church groups, community organizations, health initiatives, self-help groups, and 12-step programs? Why wouldn’t you try everything possible until you find the formula that works for you and your life? If you are alone and seeking your own counsel and protection from yourself, then understand that your ability to advise yourself is cluttered by the afflictions of low self-esteem and self-centeredness and may eventually lead to self-destruction.
Anger and jealousy are personality flaws that can be detected and recognized and corrected by you. It is time that we understand that we have the responsibility to not act as lifeguards on our own, and we are charged with creating safeguards for ourselves and those we care about. Growth and change embrace the notion of new identities and a new perspective of who we can be so that we can become better vanguards of our society and our future.
Lifeguards take your positions — but make sure that you don’t go into the water alone. Picture yourselves among a league of distinguished lifeguards helping the world and the community to change. There is so much that needs saving. There are so many rewards to be bestowed when we remove selfishness and replace it with generosity, trade anxiety for tranquility, reduce frustration and increase our self-worth we are protecting those values we hold dear. Guard vigilantly against making those decisions that destroy your image and your outlook on life’s possibility. Being angry and hurtful with your tongue is not something that you reward yourself for and take pleasure in, chalking it up to “that’s just how I am.”
Look in the mirror at the lifeguard in you. Treat others so that your well-being becomes important to them too.
Peace.
