Vocal De Frag Episode 192 Let The Mirages Pass You

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Hey, it's Aero, and this is Vocal D-Fraggin.

Vocal D-Fraggin is taking the time to get to know who you are as a person.

Do you do that?

I mean, how old are you really?

Seriously?

Do you feel old?

Do you feel crumpled up?

Do you feel used?

Do you feel like you're not getting anywhere in life?

Have you ever asked yourself questions and then, you know, kind of question the answers

that you gave yourself?

Or are you pretty much typical, like everybody else, and you run to bosses, friends, psychologists,

psychotherapists, doctors, and other people, to give you the answers that you don't want

to put your energy into.

You don't want to invest in the answer, because what happens if you're wrong?

I mean, we tend to forget that life is all about that, being wrong.

That's where you learn.

That's where you grow.

That's where the sunshine comes from, or that ray of light that gives you the inspiration

to try, try, try again.

But you've got to ask yourself the questions and then question the answers.

I call it vocal defragging.

I also defrag in a journal, which I've been doing since November of 2017.

My God, we're about ready to enter 2026.

So nine years of asking questions and questioning the answers has been in front of me.

The only reason why I went into a vocal defrag is because I can go back to that writing

in any time, and it becomes the interpretation of the moment of now, and not the interpretation

of the moment that it was felt and lived out.

So therefore, when you vocalize your questions and then question your answers, man, you can't

change pitch volume and tone.

It's documented inside this digital device, which probably will scare the crap out of a

lot of people, because it's like, oh my God, it's my voice.

I suck.

Yeah, you suck.

We all suck.

Just get over it.

Okay?

You're never going to like your voice.

You don't like anything that you truly save.

And if you do, okay, tell me the path I got you there to where you finally became satisfied

with a victory that you had in your personal life, I mean, seriously, be honest with yourself.

Where along the way, did you find your victory, and in that process of a victory, how many

times did you swing at that ball, and you struck out?

See?

It's part of the process of not just growing up, but growing wiser.

This is Vocal Deeprag.

The subject this week actually came to me late late last night, as I was wrapping up a

full day of creativity.

And that usually means that I was probably deep-ragging.

And the thought that came to me was time to pull it off the highway and allow the Mirages

to pass.

I want to say that one more time, because I really wanted to sink inside your mind body

and soul, time to pull it off the highway and allow the Mirages to pass.

Now instantly, I took it as being the message I'm supposed to give to the 14-year-old creative

self that I was in Billings Montana, who wanted to have a radio job as his career.

He didn't want to be the architect anymore.

He didn't want to sit there and mess around with being a school teacher.

He thought, radio is my life.

I've been trying to do something with it in my bedroom since the mid-part of the 1970s.

I want to do radio as a profession.

This is the 14-year-old in Billings Montana.

Now at 63, people will say, 46 years of broadcasting, what are you going to retire?

My reply has always been a very calm.

I don't know how to tell the 14-year-old who was still living in Billings Montana, that

I am hanging up his dream, because I'm not.

But yet this quote came to me, pulled off the highway and allowed the Mirages to pass.

So my de-fragging today was based 100% on one thought, what in your life do you think

is a Mirage?

Okay, you're going to have to put on your own shoes.

You cannot wear the shoes of those that inspire you to influence you and or give you empowerment.

You got to put on your own shoes and answer this question.

What in your life do you see as a Mirage and why aren't you letting it pass?

I grew up in the state of Montana and one of the things that I saw a lot of while we were

out there on those long-ass highways going up to Bear Lake or Cooney Dam or going down

to Sheridan, Wyoming, to be with family is that when it's hot out there, you see a lot

of Mirages right there on the horizon and mom used to joke around all the time saying

you can never catch up to a Mirage and I pretty much said, I'm going to change that.

I'm going to change the fact that we can touch the Mirage and we can become something from

that Mirage.

I will allow that Mirage to serve as the purpose to plan the idea, the gift of the presence

of now because I see it right now therefore it must be something that I can utilize as

a tool right now and then how can I teach everything that I learned from that Mirage?

No, I don't know if I was just full of crap or what I was thinking when I was that age

up there in Montana.

But right now at 63, I'm really looking at this quote, time to pull it off the highway

and allow the Mirages to pass.

Is that my answer for the 14 year old kid in Billings, Montana?

What's your answer?

Because I'm still trying to figure out, what in your life do you see as a Mirage and

is it time to allow it to pass?

Did my father ever pass a Mirage on a highway?

Here's a thing, I never looked behind the vehicle to see if that Mirage was ever behind

us.

Do you see what I mean?

Did we ever pass the Mirage, a Mirage is usually right there in the horizon in front of us.

So therefore, what was the writer putting on the page last night through methods of

deep-ragging and what was he trying to say?

Pull it off the highway and allow the Mirages to pass.

I'm asking you, what Mirages do you have in your life that you need to allow to pass

you and if they do pass you, do they serve as an inspiration?

Because I just mentioned this, not even two or three minutes ago, that Mirages to me

where I'm going to reach it, I'm going to find out what that Mirage is about, I'm going

to teach it, I'm going to incorporate it in other people's lives.

So I bring it back to you again, only because I like using examples so that people can grow

from the paths that we've already walked upon and did we pull it off the highway and

we're allowing them to pass us.

Because a Mirage physically exists.

One of my podcasts, which is called Stream Thinking, I will sit there and say before I jump

into the story, it's time to believe in the Mirages, it's time to trust the Mirages,

it is time to grow with the Mirages.

Does that mean that you're going to become a Mirage?

I don't think so, there's a lot more to you than that and the reason why is because in

reality when you look up the word Mirage, it is something that exists, you can see it

right there in front of you, but if you touched it, have you learned from it?

Have you heard from a Mirage?

What is a Mirage in your personal life and how can you grow with it?

And why would that 14-year-old kid in Williams, Montana tell his mother that I am going to

reach that Mirage and then I'm going to teach it, pull it off the highway and allow the

Mirages to pass.

So heavy thought, but do you see yourself in that Mirage or the reality of the moment?

Ask yourself the questions and then question the answers, I call it D-Frame.