{"id":26815,"date":"2025-11-05T12:15:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barazalab.com\/?p=26815"},"modified":"2025-11-05T12:16:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T09:16:16","slug":"perspective-by-stephen-ngoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tuwele.com\/baraza_update\/perspective-by-stephen-ngoli\/","title":{"rendered":"Perspective: By Stephen Ngoli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Staring at the sun let it magnify my energy<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Early morning rise, feel the vibe, feel the synergy<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Love and light toujour, anything else is insanity<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darkness is just shadows, right from personalities<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I promise you, perspective is perpetrating your experience<br \/>\nTaking everything so personally, go interior<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Inside yourself and purge that complex, feeling inferior\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And lighten up you&#8217;ve got to joke up, &#8216;why so serious?!&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I promise your perspective is the narrative you buy\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stories that you tell yourself to find some calm and get by<br \/>\nPointing fingers everywhere else never to your eye<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You have got to see yourself responsible for your life<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The person that you hate the most if you just spend a day with them <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get to see their story, joy, intentions, flaws the pain in them<br \/>\nThe humaneness reflected in them see that you can do relate <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">End of the day realize we mostly are the same.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So that as you bang the gavel say &#8216;I sentence myself &#8216; <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As you pay all the respect say &#8216;I reverence myself&#8217;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to shoot, stab and kill say &#8216;I ended myself &#8216;<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Want to quote the greats, success, say &#8216;I reference myself&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I promise your perspective is the narrative you buy\u00a0<br \/>\nStories that you tell yourself to find some calm and get by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[167,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-baraza-community","category-the-baraza-notebook"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - 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