Do Well

Do Well

Reflecting on my genealogy I am proud of my heritage and most proud of my fore-parents who through tribulations and pain endured in order for me to be. In so doing I am forever cognizant that I carry, along with many like me, a responsibility to not only myself but my parents and my children to do well, that is to never shame or cause those whom shoulders I stand on or those who will stand on mine to look at me as a failure or one to stop making the effort to do well.

Doing well is not to be a famous person or gain much wealth not even to stand out in the community but to make sure that one's children has the opportunity to do well and teach them the value of life and their history.

Following this concept I feel I will have done what was and is my responsibility as handed down through my fore-parents and all those who made it possible for me to be here.

Now to explain what is meant by all those and who I owe responsibility to is to know a little about my history. It is not much different from many and maybe exactly like others. You see in studying my genealogy I find that I am a mixture of many including Native American, German, Swiss, French, English and African. Yes they are all in there some place according to my findings but I am  an African American and as such you may begin to understand why I say I am proud of my fore-parents who endured tribulations and pain.

A fore parent who were made to bear children by her master on one side and another on the other side is just part of that pain. There are many stories that follow but this is not a history depiction of those event, you 'll have to wait until I finish the book to read that. I may never finish at the slow pace I am writing but if I do finish it then you get to read it if you so desire. It will be written as fiction because there is no need to cause others to feel embarrassed or shamed by family history.

So, what is really meant by doing well. Doing well is the process where you grow up listening to your elders, your parents or guardians and following good examples, being a good person and doing to others as you would have others do to you, helping those who have a need, providing for your family and teaching children what you have been taught adding to that through the wisdom that comes from growing old and doing well.

Now that you know, have you had the opportunity to review your position in life and can you say, yes I have done well and continue to do so and will forever do that so that I too will not embarrass my fore-parents or cause harm to those who come after me.

Just think for a moment how powerful this is to you and especially to those who come after you. Just imagine if you fail and and one of those who come after you, because you did not do well. Do you see that you could break a chain causing generations of your descendants to fail.

Failure could mean not being good parents, a continuing line of criminal behavior, not being educated, or not having suitable means of sustainability in job, income or life in general thereby being always dependent on society for life support. Remember proof of doing well is always in the doing and not the saying.

So you see whatever roll you may think you play in the big scheme of things you have a responsibility and that responsibility may rest in whatever your history dictates. Where you come from, who you are, what your parents did or what their parents did and so on. Should you be one of those who were born into a leadership roll you may have a much larger responsibility but you are in charge of your own destiny and you get to pick weather you do well or not. Choose Well, Choose Early and Choose Soon. Time is another subject.