Speaker 1: Creativity is an addiction, unplugged because we will always say
yes to creativity, totally uncut because we all make mistakes.
So let's turn it into a tool. This is arrow unplugged.
Oh we're gonna talk today, Gonna talk, probably hit some
subjects that might kind of get inside your head and
heart in a way where you're gonna go no, no, no,
no no no. But oh oh maybe maybe In a
matter of days, I'll not only be turning sixty one,
but I'll be celebrating thirty years of an incredible marriage.
In November, I'll reach forty four years as a broadcaster.
Yet mentally, I still think I'm sixteen years old, which
is really wrong. According to researchers. The experts say a
sixty year old man should feel like he's in his
early fifties. So at what age are we supposed to
stop feeling young? The answer from those who base their
lives on human actions and reactions, they say, we stop
feeling young somewhere around forty three. So what about freaks
like me, those who still act like a teen. Doctors
love it. You're in better physical health and it keeps
dementia at bay. Now I'm not saying that I'm denying
these beautiful six decades that I've been given. There have
been so many amazing journeys. While some say they would
do anything to return to a certain age, I gotta
tell you I do go back carrying all of this knowledge.
Hates Errol. This is the daily mess. I am a
daily writer, and maybe that's what keeps me in the
spirit of being so young, is that I've got nearly
thirty years of daily writing. It's just freely put on
a page. But I don't go back and read it,
not unless I'm called to go back to read it
to study a habit that I broke free of because
something has unveiled. Because we all know that history does
repeat itself. So I've documented everything so that I can see, ooh,
you could be going back, dude. Let's shape up a
bit here. Okay, let me grab you by the nap
of the neck and let's get you out of that fort.
This is the daily mess. A very good friend once
suggested to me. It was about three or four years ago.
He said, you know, I like what you're doing, but
I don't. He attempted to share with me his inner
thoughts about my inner thoughts, and he was not in
connection with how I identify things, with my place with religion.
Like most students of Christ, you take a step back
when you are confronted by other people's beliefs. Here's what
he said in his explanation, some of us aren't on
the same page. To hear others like yourself speak like
it's the only thing you have sounds like fingernails scraping
against a chalkboard. Who Okay, let's take note on how
I started this. Even though he said these words to me,
I still started after all of these year with this
at the top of the page. A very good friend
once suggested, I can't tell you how many times HR
pulled me into their offices at work to remind me
to keep my thoughts to myself. That coworkers found it
to be overbearing. I crossed the line. I knew there
had to be changed. What I believed in how I
lived wasn't welcoming to others. Through awareness and of course,
through prayer, the outside shell evolved into smiles, smiles. It
didn't matter what was moving through me my thoughts. I
was going to smile, not say anything, because through those
smiles you can still receive the energy of peace without
saying one word smile. But is it a fake smile?
Some people have identified me as that, Oh, you're being
fake today. I've even been known to say I've got
the plastic candy coat of bathroom mirror smile. But if
you don't know me and I'm in a crowded place
and I am smiling, you're feeling my energy without me
saying things that are connected to religion. So I challenge you,
instead of blurting out what your heart is steaming, allow
yourself to just smile. I'm Marrow and that's the daily mess.