Celebrating Greatness

~ Gottfried

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a lack of wisdom. Greatness lies in not being strong, but in the right use of strength. You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. Opportunity does not knock. It presents itself when you beat down the door.

Greatness cannot be denied. Surround yourself with the dreamers and the doers, the believers and thinkers, but most of all, surround yourself with those who see greatness within you, even when you don’t see it yourself. The first key to greatness is to be in reality what we appear to be.

Greatness is not a destination. It is a continuous journey that never ends. To truly know me, you need to be immortalized. When legends die, the dreams end. There is no more greatness.

Greatness is frightening. With it comes responsibility. Consider the postage stamp. It’s usefulness consists in the ability to stick to one thing till it gets there. Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Someone once told me not to bite off more than I could chew. I said I’d rather choke on greatness than nibble on mediocrity. True greatness consists on being great in little things. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness. If you work hard enough you can be a great failure.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. Don’t you dare, for one second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are. If you want to achieve greatness, stop asking for permission.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment. Greatness is a practice, not a status. There is greatness in not caring what people think. No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.

I’m not crazy, I promise.

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

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          1. He sure is !! He’s a runner, too!!! He likes to switch the boards on me. I’ll be all motivated and into everything and then, it’ll be gone 😅. I keep wrestling with him and winning though. Haha 😆

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  5. 6 Feet Above
    Greater Than
    6 Feet Below

    Matters Not

    If i Don’t Feed the
    Worms First Eventually
    We All Return to Star Dust Whole

    True We Come From Star Dust too Yes

    Star FLoWeRS Star Seeds We Are iNDeeD

    Resurrecting Super Nova Explosions
    From Gaseous Star Dust Iron FLoWinG

    iN Our Blood Stream
    PicKinG Up Oxygen
    To BREaTHE Supplying
    ALWaYS By LiViNG Green Trees

    Iron At Core of Mother Earth Laws
    Of Attraction Positive And Negative

    Poles too As Duality Comes Unity
    FRiEnDS WitH GRaViTY ALL Yes
    Naked Enough Whole
    Complete Star
    FLoWeRS
    SeedS We
    Us Come
    to Dance
    And Sing Free God Yes

    i Am Only A Beginner
    Star Every Ray oF LiGHT
    NeW NoW CaRRiES oN
    Wayward Dust of Stars

    FLoWeRS Seeds ALL

    STiLL oN FiRE With

    Passion For

    Bringing
    Shadows To LiFE
    Mr. Gottfried With
    SMiLes How Great Thou ArT iS..:)

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          1. “You’re my spirit animal” Thanks Mr. Gottfried For the ‘Great’ Compliment
            Hehe Brings Back Memories of The Young Women Cashiers in Grocery
            Stores Who Still Name me Their SPiRiT ANiMaL True And Also

            In All the Dance Hall Nights
            For 6 Years and 298 Events
            Before Covid-19 Shut The
            Place Down on March 12, 2020

            And My Wife After The Pandemic
            Worries Now More About me Driving
            With Drunks in the Wee 3 AM Hours Back Home

            True Rises The Rates of Geico Car Insurance Too Hehe

            Oh Dear Lord i’ve Been Named Practically Every Name

            In And Out of Books Ranging From Anonymous YouTube Avatars

            Wishing Hoping The Three Quarters of A Ton or So of Leg Pressing

            Weight Crashes Down on me And Kills me Slowly in Effortless
            Ease Pressing it 12

            Reps With
            GorillaLioN
            Werewolf
            Growling
            Deep Within

            Rumbling More

            To Generate More
            Chi Energy of Course
            With Hands Reaching
            iNto Heavens Attaining
            And Transforming my
            Personal Weight of 111
            Kilograms into the Weight
            of mY Finger Tips in Balance While Leg
            Pressing That 699 KiLoGRaMS Now 12

            Reps Once Again So Slowly Effortless Yes
            iN Ease as i Become The Feather in CHI Wind

            Anyway When Young Named Bird Legs Then
            in Middle School Folks Asserting i Am too Weak
            And Strange to Exist Then Yet All That Changed

            Particularly in my 6th Decade of Life With Feedback

            Ranging From Do i Know How Famous i Am to Yells
            Out of Car Windows At 2 AM Screaming Living Legend
            At me to Surprisingly Yells From Women in Crowded

            Cars in Bar Parking Lots to Take My Shirt off Hehe

            Of Course They Could Have Asked for A Link too HAha

            Yes Metro Area Icon Another Kind Compliment to Hero

            To Gee They Wish They Could be Either Married to
            Someone Like me or Actually me Hehe Close to

            Four Decades Younger Than me Then And

            The Most Ironic Part is i Never Had

            To Say A God Dammed WORD

            True HAha People Described

            me With All Those ‘Great’
            Accolades For Not Saying

            Or Even Singing A God Dammed
            Word All 11.3 MiLLioN Words in Free
            Verse Poetry in 113 Months as of 1.18.2023

            Yet All Those Accolades Coming From a Never
            Ending Public Dance Still Ongoing in 17,744 Miles
            Close to 113 Months Since August of 2013 As Well

            Yet Here’s the ‘Thing’ mY FRiEnD During All Those
            Years Not Wearing A Single ‘Abraham’ Penny in A Pocket
            And Often Not Wearing Pants At All Hehe all Non-Verbally

            AS Such Wearing
            Shorts as i Haven’t
            Worn Pants Since
            the Winter of 2013
            Even in Rare Snowy
            Icy Weather in Northern Florida

            Along the Emerald Gulf Coast Here

            i’ve Already Been to Hell For 66 Months
            For Real With That Worst Pain Known to
            Humankind Assessed As the Suicide Disease
            Worse than the Torture of Crucifixion for Real

            Type Two Trigeminal Neuralgia From Wake to Sleep
            No Drug Would Touch Mostly Shut-in my Bedroom

            For 66 Months With a Synergy in Life Threat of 18
            Other Mostly Work Related Stress Disorders Chronic
            to Acute During the Previous 11 Years of Work From
            1996 to 2007 So Actually That’s A Total of 17 Years

            Ranging From Purgatory For 11 Years to Hell for
            the last 66 Months As Well In Hell For Real And

            What i Understand is the Greatest Greatness

            Is Just Having The Strength to Take Another

            Breath in Hell WHeRE THeRE is No Current

            Escape Where A Thousand Years

            is One Second of Hell

            Within As in that
            Place The Spector
            of Death is Heaven In Hell iN Pain And FroZeN iN Yes

            Most Severe Numb A GREaTesT BLeSSinG iMaGiNaBLE

            The Real PoTeTNTiaL For DeatH iS HEaVeN iN Hell Yes

            iNDeed ‘Dante’ is Correct Hell Isn’t Hot Hell is FRoZeN

            With No Memory of A Feeling of a Smile at All

            Yet Here’s The ‘Thing’ if One Ever Escapes

            They Are Transformed into A Totally
            New Creation Re-Born And Suddenly

            One Comes to Find the Essence of the Vehicles
            And Vessels HouSinG LiGHT iN So Many Metaphors
            of Myths And Stories of Holy And Sacred Text Are REAL

            IT’S A JUST A MATTER OF EXPERIENCING THE HELL AND

            HEAVEN FOR REAL Within And What You Do Next May

            Be to Make A Covenant With The Real God Within

            This Connecting Peace and LoVE ReaL to Help

            As Many People to Both Get Out Purgatory

            And Hell For Real And Perhaps Help

            Some Folks to Never Have to Go

            Yet the Jury’s Out As Far As

            Do People Who Don’t

            Go to Hell and

            Escape Actually

            Get to Go to Heaven
            At All mY FRiEnD Yes

            iNDeeD It’s Not a Chosen
            Few It is Those Who Generate
            The Will to Survive And BREaTHE LoVE iN Peace
            Again And Spread The Seeds of Love Both in Rocky
            And Fertile Soil Souls Understanding Fully That Every

            EyE oF GoD

            iS Free to

            See or
            Remain
            Blind to the
            Deeper Fruits
            oF LiFE DiViNE mY FRiEnD

            THeRE iS NoTHiNG Anyone
            May Add or Subtract to the

            Soul Both Nothing And All my FRiEnD
            Naked Enough Whole Complete Only

            Still Just Less than A Grain of Sand Only
            Another Slob With the Face of God Doing

            my Best to Hold Mountains of Love Up With
            the Power of
            Peace

            And
            SMiLes
            of Course

            Hehe ‘the Flood’
            Comes Again With SMiLes…

            And i Am Just A Little Rainbow Below A Grain of Sand
            Pot of Gold Inherent in the Dance And Song of Colors More…

            Yep That’s What One of my Young Women Indian Poet FRiEnDS Used
            to Call me ‘Rainbow’ Another Calls me ‘SMiles’ Now Sadly The Professor
            Engineer Who Called me ‘Rainbow’ Yes Her Life Was Taken Away By The

            Delta

            Variant

            In India
            And Her
            Mother’s Life too
            Before Vaccines
            Were Available Then

            i Shall Repeat Her Name
            Again ‘Astha’ as i Do All
            mY FRiEnDS iN My EPiC
            BooK oF Life For Real

            iN ‘SonG oF mY SoUL’

            Shared in Innumerable Avenues All Around the
            World Where Mr. Gottfried Has A Place As Well…

            And The Thousands of Young Women Who Danced
            With me Those Six Years They LiVE iNTo Eternity Now New

            In Selfies That Continue to Repeat Forevermore in A Place

            Online With No Sun, Moon, or Stars; Perhaps For A Thousand

            Years As Long As ‘Servers’ Burp Them ALL Up in All Avenues Still

            Breathing

            As
            Avatars
            STiLL Do For Real…

            Hehe SMiLes Young Women Used
            To Ask Me to Take Pictures With me
            As They Felt the ‘Famous’ Might Rub Off Yet Little Do They

            Know Now They Still BREaTHE As Avatars All Around the World…

            Yet of Course Hehe What Comes Around Goes Around in Several
            Thousand Dance Events Both in Dance Hall and Public Places Literally

            Hundreds Perhaps Thousands of Voyeur Videos Taken By Others in Social
            Media Ways to
            Spread my

            Non-Verbal

            Ministry of
            Moving
            Meditation
            FLoWinG
            Ascending
            Transcending
            BLiSSinG BLeSSinG
            Dance Free From Head to
            Toe Peace In LoVE iN Peace
            Regulating Emotions Integrating
            Senses From Head To Toe Beyond
            WHeRE Nirvana And Bliss God
            YeS! HEaVeN Naturally Breathes

            All Non
            Verbally
            AS Such
            Within Yes
            With SMiLes
            Of Free Dance More

            And The Occasional
            Free FLoWinG SonG
            Dance Inspires Even More…

            Yet i Suppose 1,213 Words
            Above Is Enough For Now..;)

            1,223

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          3. True Hehe Sadly Not Everyone Appreciates The Size of me Dear
            Mr Gottfried Yet Dear Lord of
            Disney i Received

            The Most

            Hilarious
            Identifier
            Of All At
            The iHop
            Breakfast Joint
            Where A Waitress
            Notified me That Her
            Daughter Spotted my
            Spiraling Dance And Said
            “That Man Looks Like Such
            A Pretty Princess Dancing”

            At Walmart Just

            A Few Days Before That A Retired Military Dude With
            PTSD Notified me Someone
            Was Trying To Steal His Credit
            Card Number In The Check-Out

            Line At Walmart
            Believing i Was
            Undercover
            Auxiliary
            Special Police

            And That Happens
            Everywhere i Go

            Interesting How
            Differently People
            See me

            Oh The

            Diversity
            Of Human Views

            Sincerely Thanks
            For Being Such A
            Good Sport About
            My 2000 And Something

            Word Tsunami

            Sized Comment Hehe 🌊🏝

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  9. This has be the highlight of my week already…. Introspectively, you could be great and not know that you are and the folks around you don’t either …or when folks keep telling you of how great you are,but then you look at yourself and can’t seem to fathom or decipher any atom of greatness….what can be done in these hypothetical situations?

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