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Survival of the Fittest By Dylan Stewart It’s been said that the species that survive are not the strongest, not the smartest, not the fastest but they are the... most adaptable to change. That’s the litmus test, the proof in the pudding, the way forward How fast can you adopt, how fast can you change, how fast can you take the situation surrounding you, the obstacles confronting you, The pressures mounting on top of you And transform them, transform yourself, shift your context and your view and reposition yourself for success? Life is expectedly unexpected, and throws curve balls for the hell of it, turns in the road that you just don’t see coming And yet, how you respond and how you react defines how you thrive and survive. Who would’ve thought a year ago that we would be here? Who would’ve thought six months ago our lives would’ve taken this turn? Who was ready and prepared when the shit really hit the fan to take that excrement, and use it as compost, to create a garden of beauty and flourishing growth? We all have the opportunity, the choice, the foresight to plan ahead But when things don’t go as planned some amongst us are better at pivoting, are better at restructuring and re-examining on the fly, so that we end up on top Adaptation The greatest of human innovations The ability to turn a desert into a flourishing paradise, the ability to alter the environment to our needs, The ability to take what we are given, and not only make the most of it but make it the pinnacle of our preservation. Stretching, bending, twisting, transforming. We can all do it. We are human beings after all. We have adapted to everything on this planet, the weather, the bacteria, the environment, the trials and tribulations of social relationships When we first found ourselves in this pandemic it seemed unfathomable that we could make it through. Unbelievable that we could continue to grow and stretch. But somehow, before we blinked facemasks became the norm, social distancing became common, stock piles of toilet paper became an expected eventuality. As human beings we are experts in adaptation. Experts in making the abnormal into the new normal. And it’s a skill we should harness. A skill we should teach. A skill we should cultivate, to an even higher degree. The world is scary, frightening, attacking us from all directions And all we have is ourselves, our wits, our senses, and our pure unharnessed human nature to constantly reinvent ourselves. To regularly reassess our situation, and make different choices and turn ourselves in different directions. Human beings the freaks of evolution, who bested the primates, who defeated larger predators, who used our innovation to create cities where there was only sand. To create electricity from the elements around us. To create fire and use it to create societies. It’s time we stop being afraid of our ability to change. It’s time we stop holding back from our desire to be unique and uncommon. It’s time we stop betraying our very human nature by letting fear create panic. It’s time for us to grab ahold of the reins of this life we have been given and make it into the best of our dreams. The best of our capabilities. The best of who we are Every cell in our body changes. Every thought in our head is in constant development. Every instinct that we have has been honed by challenges and obstacles larger than any that we face today. It’s time we owned who we are. We are the champions of change. The epic of evolution. The absolute apex of adaptation. And it starts with you. Are you ready for everything you know, or think you know to be flipped upside down? Are you ready for the ground beneath us to fall away? Are you ready for the skies to rain down fire and thunder? And are you ready to survive and thrive through it all? Well if not, it’s time you got ready XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I’m Dylan Stewart, the NorthStar Man and I change lives by connecting people to creativity, their true purpose and direction, and engaging in living their best life now. Click here to book a free one-on-one breakthrough session with me. http://go.oncehub.com/embracechange Click here to read my other posts: https://www.facebook.com/InkstainsByDylan/ #ayearofwords #dailypoetry #inkstains #dylanstewartpage #inkstainsbydylan #northstarman #365challenge #JustWrite365

The Final By Dylan Stewart Life is a test A long stream of multiple choice questions... Short essay questions True or false questions Every day It’s a new test How will you respond? Did you prepare? Or did you wake up in the classroom with nothing but your underwear on? It’s a test we aren’t prepared for A test we can’t be ready for The questions came out of left field And sometimes we answer in code Your relationship is a test Your job is a test Your every decision can spell instant failure or instant success But it’s just a test It doesn’t really mean anything Except it means everything Every answer moves you forward Every question holds you back And we are all Everyone of us Trying our best to get an A+ But we are happy with a C- Sometimes the questions are easy Do you turn left or right? Do you tell the truth or lie? Do you share your heart? Or hide behind fancy 10 cent words? Sometimes you cheat off your neighbor Sometimes they cheat off you Sometimes you have all the answers scrawled on the back of your arm Sometimes the questions leave you staring wide-eyed in wonder How do you answer? How do you respond? How do you succeed? When every test is just a precursor For the next test When every answer It’s just an entryway To a whole new set of questions But there is no failure Unless you choose not to answer There is no passing grade Unless you do your best And as the questions come Fast and furious Fair and unfair Filled with prejudice Full of ambivalence All we can hope Is for enough time on the clock To write our answers To search our back stories To trust our guts And fill in the bubbles With a number two pencil And hope we shaded them in fully Before the final bell rings And when it does Who will grade the test? Will we grade them ourselves? Or be graded by those around us... Those we considered as friends Those we considered as mentors Those we considered family This test is inherently unfair Inherently unbalanced Inherently jaded And yet we do our best And hope for the best And drop the rest Behind us Answering questions as they come Until our final essay When we get to share What we really learned And how we really grew And what it all met Are you ready to answer? Here comes your test XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I’m Dylan Stewart, the NorthStar Man and I change lives by connecting people to creativity, their true purpose and direction, and engaging in living their best life now. Click here to book a free one-on-one breakthrough session with me. http://go.oncehub.com/embracechange Click here to read my other posts: https://www.facebook.com/InkstainsByDylan/ #ayearofwords #dailypoetry #inkstains #dylanstewartpage #inkstainsbydylan #northstarman #365challenge #JustWrite365

Hindsight is 2020 By Dylan Stewart Thank you 2020 It’s so easy to be jaded... So easy to take it all for granted So easy to be resentful So easy to blame So thank you 2020 You have taught me more Given me more Show me more Then any year before And I will never forget you From the dawn of your new year With the death of idols I had worshiped To the twists and turns That nobody could see coming But no one will ever forget Thank you 2020 For showing me That there is more to learn In struggle than in triumph More to find in the challenge Than in the success Because of you Everything is different I am different For the better I have set aside that Which I thought was unchangeable Rearranged my life Refocused my work Found my truth And given back to those around me So that they may thrive too Thank you 2020 I thought I had what I wanted I thought I knew where I was going I thought I could see the road ahead But thank you 2020 For your twists and turns For your unexpected grace Within your unbelievable tragedy Gratitude is easy When the world is your oyster When everything comes up roses When everything is simple And predictable And flows according to a grand design So thank you 2020 For showing me a different design That is just as grand For reminding me the survivor I am For giving me opportunities to stretch To change To alter the very course of my future fForever I have gratitude Beyond my greatest wishes Beyond my greatest dreams Beyond everything I thought I wanted And it’s because of you It’s because of you that I have all the gifts That I have all the abundance That I have a new perspective That will carry me through anything For you threw it all at me At all of us And we shook it off Brushed it away Pushed past And found a new way A new chance to connect A new way to hope A new kind of faith I will look back forever At this strange year With it’s constant chaos With it new normal With its social distancing And it’s toilet paper shortages And I will be grateful Thank you 2020 Now I know I have everything I could ever want And nothing will ever change that. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I’m Dylan Stewart, the NorthStar Man and I change lives by connecting people to creativity, their true purpose and direction, and engaging in living their best life now. Click here to book a free one-on-one breakthrough session with me. http://go.oncehub.com/embracechange Click here to read my other posts: https://www.facebook.com/InkstainsByDylan/ #ayearofwords #dailypoetry #inkstains #dylanstewartpage #inkstainsbydylan #northstarman #365challenge #JustWrite365

About Now By Dylan Stewart Before you, My first love I was a boy, confused in alone. Desperate for love, I’m afraid I would never find it.... You showed me love, of a certain sort Let me know I was wanted, needed, and then you took from me. Stole from here. Changed me into something else Before I could blink I was a parent. A widower. Even more lost and confused. Even more desperate for love. I raised my daughter alone, figuring it out as I went, a boy in a man’s body. A father in a child’s place. I took what I had learned, took what you had shown me, and did the best I could. Before you I was a student, innocent, wide-eyed and in love with the idea of love. After you I was flawed and frightened. Falling apart at the seams, with nobody there to notice after I walked away. Before you, my daughter I was a child myself. Full of ideas and opportunities. Full of ego and misguided notions of what it meant to have someone depend on you. Before you I relied on others. Survived by the kindness of others. Leaned on those around me for everything that I could. But after you I was a true father. Responsible, and yet still immature. I was still struggling to find out who I was, who I could be, and what I needed to become to take care of you. Before you, my second love I thought I had figured it out. I thought I knew how to stand on my own 2 feet. I thought I knew how to say no, hold my terms, hold my space, and on my needs. I was wrong, with you I learned how wrong. I folded over time after time. I bent myself backwards and forwards in an attempt to satisfy you. I twisted my life, my family, my hopes and dreams around in an attempt to make you happy it never did. With you I found I was still a child, and you held it over me. Pushed and pulled me, changed me to your own liking, and left me more broken than I had started. After you I began to find myself, figure out who I was and what I stood for, understood what it meant to be a parent. To have others rely on me. To fight for what was important, and step into the role I had fallen into. After you it took years. Almost a decade. Of restructuring, reimagining, rebuilding, remaking the man I wanted to be. I found my way back to my daughter. I found my way back to myself. I found my way into something different, something powerful and strong, something to be looked up to, something to fall back on. Before you, my third love I thought I needed nothing. I thought I was self-sufficient. I thought I had figured it all out, fixed my flaws, and built a life I was proud of. I thought I had everything I could ever want, everything I could ever need, I thought I was whole. With you I learned that I was whole. I learned that I could be relied on. I learned that I could stand on my own two feet like I always wished. I found everything I had fallen into was leading towards this. And I found myself afraid, afraid of the reality that I still wanted more. I wanted you. I wanted love. I wanted to know what it felt like to really give myself to another and have them accept me just as I was. With you I finally understood what love was, what it meant, how important it was for me to be myself and only myself and know myself so that I could share that with you, without a fear of becoming someone else. Without a fear of falling back on that loss little boy. Without fear of falling apart yet again And after you, time will tell. I hope there is no after you. I hope this is it, and this lesson sticks, and our lives grow together, and we find within each other that which each of us has always sought. Through it all I’ve learned lessons, I’ve made mistakes, I’ve adjusted my course and my direction. Through you I see myself, and I like what I see. And I built on it. I’m not ready to see what life is like after you. I don’t want to know. Because to me, where I am now, is where I was always meant to be. I couldn’t have found my way there without my first love. You taught me that you could lose it all and still have yourself. I couldn’t have found my way there without my daughter, through her I learned what it was to be wanted and needed. To be put to task to grow up and show an example. I wasn’t perfect, but every mistake got me closer. My relationship with you showed me something I could’ve never seen otherwise. What it’s like to be a father, to be a provider, to be a force to be reckoned with. I couldn’t have found my way here without my second love, she showed me what to look for in a partner. She showed me how to stand up for myself. She showed me how to be weak, and find the strength in my own vulnerability. She showed me how to put my foot down and fight for what I believed in. And now there’s you And I wouldn’t be who I am without everything that came before. But I’m changed now. Different now. Whole in ways I never expected Before you I was something uncertain, insecure, fragile. But with you I am strong, certain, ready Ready for whatever comes next. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I’m Dylan Stewart, the NorthStar Man and I change lives by connecting people to creativity, their true purpose and direction, and engaging in living their best life now. Click here to book a free one-on-one breakthrough session with me. http://go.oncehub.com/embracechange Click here to read my other posts: https://www.facebook.com/InkstainsByDylan/ #ayearofwords #dailypoetry #inkstains #dylanstewartpage #inkstainsbydylan #northstarman #365challenge #JustWrite365