Bonus episode. Are you ok?

0:01 Good windsday morning. It is March first. Thank you so much for joining us on this newst episode of currently under construction. I am your host oldest thinking so much for joining us this morning. This is a bonus episode, just a Little Land Yapp you're to throw in your lap this morning. Hope everybody's going to have all wonderful and prosperous day to day. Praying, did you all that are still sleeping right now, that you're resting well, that God sends his angels Twin Camp Around you all, and did you all asleep and well, and prayed to over you today, you and your family, your loved ones, that you have a magnificent day today and all of you endeavors and ever whatever you do on your way to work, on the school out and about home, rest of me, Lecas, and whatever the case may be. I know we just we just had a part. We just had a pot on yesterday, but I just felt compelled to record and get another part out today, or this morning, rather, just a bonus episode, something that was stirring in my in my spirit. So I couldn't hold it. So I decided to jump on a mic and just have a little conversation with y'all. You know what I mean, but I just want to talk to you all about just you overall. You know. Are you happy with you? Are you happy with where you are in life? Are you happy with the person that you that you are, that you look in the

1:32 mirror with every day? Are you happy with your star player? Yes, you'll start playing a person that you look in the mirror every morning, each and every day. That person is looking back at you. Now, some of us aren't there, some of us are still working on it, some of us are lost. But what is happiness? Is Happiness being having a successful career, having a successful family, having a good job of out making money, making others happy, serving happiness means different things to different people, but I guess what I want to just sit and ass going, I want to want to talk to you all about, is what is happens to you.

2:23 You know. Are you truly happy? Are you at a place in your life to wear when you look at yourself in a mirror or you think about your life and your overall place of where you are right now, are you content with it? Are you, you know, happy with that? A lot of us are, a lot of us are walking around in a funk right now. A lot of us are walking around in a cloud and not even realizing it, and there are a lot of different factors to that. Now, what I'm talking about right now is a generalization. I don't want anybody to think that I'm picking on them or I mean their business or anything like that, because I know that's not the case. Out of D that ain't how I roll. But this is just a generalization of what I'm seeing, what I'm thinking and just, you know, just a point of view from my perspective. So y'all just roll with me on that. All right. But we've been in this pandemic a little more than two years right now. We've never seen anything that has shut the entire world down, the entire world, not just a portion of the world or a country here and there, but something that should dine the entire world completely. At this time two years ago, we didn't know if we were coming, if we were going, or whatever the case may be. But I brought it up to go here. We've gone through it and then do it a lot in this

3:55 pandemic. We're at a point where we were able to go anywhere to where we had to stay home to where we didn't know if we were coming and going, where. We started losing loved ones and friends and colleagues and associate's, celebrities and so on, just back to back to back, and it became disheartening, became dishrdening to us to see these numbers of people that are affected by Covid nineteen and all the different streams since we've been in this pandemic. I know a lot of us are ready to get back to the norm of being able to go here and there, to go out to breathe air without a mask on, to be able to interact with each other without social distancing, to be able to have a family get together, not worried about anybody getting sick, to travel night chest continentally, but outside of the US as well, without any travel restrictions or whatnot. A lot of us are ready to get back to that. But for the fact of the matter, we are in the current norm right now and a lot of us haven't been there with a handled. A lot of us off just try to cope with it the best way that we can and it's affecting a lot of us in the many, many different ways. You know we've had to stay home, we've had to be around our family as a whole lot more. This pandemic

5:30 has affected us as a family unit as a whole. A lot of us doing this pandemic health spouses, that we found out that our spouses didn't like us or our family didn't like us, or friends didn't like us, or something of that particular nature, because we've had to be around these people more than we had would if we were being able to go out to go to work or go to do something throughout the day. And that is the fact of the matter, you know, as harsh as it may seem and harsh as it may be, that's the ace. But again, I mean I'm running my way around the moon to come back to say that we have been affected by this pandemic mentally, emotionally and a lot of ways, spiritually as well, because we still it's the unknown, and it's an unknown that a lot of US unsure of how to deal with or how to cope with.

6:26 So when we begin to move about and trying to have a normal life, a lot of us are okay with it, but then there are a lot of us that are a number of us that are in a state of depression, get in a state of mental awareness that's not that and not in a good place. A lot of US know a lot of us don't know it, don't realize and it's affecting us. I've been seeing lately on social media and in the news test a lot of suicide, a lot of people that are taking their own lives because they can't take where they are right now or they've been dealing with mental wellness. Are Dinner with the state of depression for such a period of time and there at that, which they feel like, there at they're with seeing. So that's why I ask, do you like the person that you're looking in the mirror? Do you like you? Do you like the person that you look at and you represent daily? We all love each other, we all love ourselves, but a thing that I want and need for us to do and to understand it, to look at, is we need to like ourselves. It's hard to move on and to be able to say we like or we love someone else when we don't even have that self love. We need that. We need that. If you're at,

8:03 you're with seeing. Of you in a state of that, you don't know if you're coming a going or you feel not like yourself all the time, you don't have to deal with it, you don't have to endure it by yourself. Even if you don't know who, you think that you can talk to. Of course, we know we can talk to the Creator, we can talk to the most high because everything starts and ends with him. We know that take it to him first and ask him to guide you or give you a clear path on what you need to do to come out of that state and see. That's why God gave us each other. See, there's no shame in seeking help if you are not in a good place emotionally mentally, there's nothing wrong with it. It's a stigma that we've been growing up. If you're from my generation, you're from generation x, the baby boomers, generation x generation. Why? To some degree, that's how we were raised, that you don't talk about mental with mental health issues. That's something you don't discuss. That's something that was shunned. It's something that was you crazy, but you're not. Get you're not. It's like I talked about before. When we have issues with our bodies, we go to the doctor. When we have ear problems, we go see a ear, nose

9:37 and throat doctor. Issues going on with our eyes, we're going to send athhomologists. Issues go on on with our mouth and teeth, we could see the dentist it shoes go on with our car, we will take it to her, to the mechanic or to the dealership. So why is it that we can't? If they're issues going on with our minds, we can't take that to see someone, a therapist or counseling, to see someone to help us out with that, to get it back on track? It's the same thing with a spiritually, we're out of seining spiritually. Well, take it to the Creator, because we knows, we know that he's going to definitely get us back in line. Yeah, that's what's going to get US straight.

10:26 On that I saw something and that there was a stood that to me that was profound, that you never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruined happiness of your present. And I'm going to read that one more time. It said never let the sadness of your past and the fear of your future ruined the happiness of your present. Now let them marinate for a second and you think about that. You just think about that for a minute. So often we as people tend to let others dictate where we are right now based on things we may or may not have done in our past, and those things affect US mentally and emotionally as well. But we can't do that. Those of you have known me know that I have a saying, as saying that I hold dear, and it's a saying that I get from someone that was very close to be coming up, and I hold on to that. We can't allow our passed to dictate our present and I owe our future. You can't go forward if, in life, if

11:56 you constantly looking in your rear view mirror. That's why your windshield is bigger than your rear view mirror, not that that may rend and you think about that also. Yeah, you see, Um, I've talked to you all about this before and again, I have no problem talking about it one more time. I even myself found myself in a state of depression at the end of two thousand and twenty. I didn't realize it, but it took a good friend of mine to point it out, and I didn't believe from I just thought that they were just talking but it took a really good friend to point it out and say, Oh, this unite right, you're not you.

12:56 I said, what do you mean? I'm not mean. It's like you're not smiling or anything like you normally do. I'm like, I smile, not joke, ah all the time. Like no, you do it, but it's not in your eyes. Your eyes are blank, your eyes are dull. There is no jow in your eyes. And I just thought that person. I said, well, you know, you know what you talking about. You let me just I'm not trying to hear that, but it made me think. It made me take a really hard look at myself, my actions, in my behavior over those few months after my mom passed, and I realized the person has a point. I wasn't and I didn't even know it. I had no inkling, no idea of it or anything.

13:58 I knew something somewhere deep down in me that something wasn't right, but I just look like hey, you know, I'm still grieving my mom, which I was, but it was something much deeper than that and I had to I had to find a way out because I was in a downward spiral and didn't realize it any at all I was. I was in a downward spiral and I think God that person took the initiative and had the courage to point that out to me. Let me know, hey, I care enough about you to point this out, to let you know I see something's not right. Oh, I need you to come back and needs you to to get some help on that. I really appreciate that person for that. You know who you are if you listening right now, and I know that you are one of our strongest listeners to this podcast. Thank you. Thank you, and I'm hoping this morning with this podcast, that I can do the same thing for someone, that I can let them, listening to this and listening to me tell my story, to me, listening to me speak on this particular subject, that they will see that, that they will come out of that, that they will take the initiative to do something for themselves.

15:37 I'm really hoping that I can have that effect on someone, if not someone listening, that maybe they may know someone that may need to listen to this or that they could go to and say, Hey, I love you, I see that you're not okay. What can I do to help? Hey, let's go talk to somebody let me refer you to go talk to somebody that maybe we can help get you in a good place. Or Hey, let me pray with you and and see if they almighty can help open a path up so that you can move forward and be okay. See, it's easy for us to say that we're okay even when we actually not. That's so easy for us to do and we have to get out of that, people. We definitely have to get out of that. People. I am so serious about this. I love you all and not care about your mental will, being your physical will, being your emotional will, being your spiritual wellbeing. I sincerely care about that and if I can help one person, then God has allowed me to do what he set out for me to do and giving me this message and giving me this platform to be able to we

17:07 lay it on and to me be able to have the conviction of to being obedient to what he meant for me to do. Yeah, yeah, I know, I put high cast for it. Mad for the last few episodes has been a little different than what you accustomed to listening to, but just hanging out with us again. You know, I have a whole lot of new equipment. We're still getting used to write new hosting platform and we're still learning all the ends and outside of it and everything. So continue to bear with us and everything. But we're still going to push out a great outload of content for you and we're kind of make this thing even better than it was before. And I'm not doing it by myself. Remember, I'm doing it all with you, doing it all with you, and we doing it all for you, and that's what we do here currently under construction right right the game. We have a I know what I said. The next episode was begin but again, this is just a bonus episode. It is just a little extra. This is just a bonus episode for me to drop in and, being obedient to what God put in my mind and my heart, to share with you all and to hopefully this one, this will touch home for someone. It's will touch home for someone in some shape form of fashion.

18:40 I saw something else that I want to share with you all to again and spoke volumes to me. But it says it doesn't matter what's been written in your story so far, it's how you feel up the rest of the pages that counts. It doesn't matter what's written in your story so far, it's how you fill up the rest of the pages. That counts, and I want you all to fill the rest of those pages with a lot of positivity, a lot of success, a lot of love, a lot of encouragement, a lot of prayers, just a lot of getting things done.

19:23 That's what I wish for you. That's my prayer for you all. That's what I'm hoping that we all be able to accomplish together. You know what we do. We're community where family current under construction. You know my model. I'm sorry, you know I will model. All right, everybody, I said I wasn't going to be long. This actually end up being a little longer than I thought. This is actually almost the length of an next tire full episode. I've curled out the construction. So again you you'll get the next episode here in a few days. Be on the lookout for it again. You can catch us on all of your platforms. Where were you listen to your podcast? Apple podcasts, Google podcast, spotify, overcast, pocket, cash radio, public, stitcher, deezer. I heard radio and many, many others, and some new ones to come outs again. You can listen to us on Google podcast, apple podcast, spotify, radio, public, overcast, pocket, cast, cash box, deezer, Amazon, I heard radio, many others. I know few do, as I added in that weren't in the first time. I give you those, but they're

20:55 also available on those platforms as well. So, but anyway, everybody having an amazing have a great morning this morning. Get up, you know, those you diding need to get up the head out the work and I hope you have an amazing have a great day to day, getting the kids off the school, that you make it to their destination safely and that you all have an amazing, wonderful day to day. I love you all with every fiber of my being and I'll talk to you all soon. So you know what name you know. I'm Modo. It takes a village to put this thing together and you are my village and we're going to do this thing together, break by break, one step at a time. Currently under construction.

21:45 One error on my part. I did say today was Wednesday. Today's Tuesday. I apologize for that, but today is Tuesday, March First, two thousand and twenty two, and I talk to you all in a couple of days. Yeah, I keep it like right here for us here turned down. The construction have an amazing day and I love you all, peace,