A Saints Journey

A Prologue to Truth: Vulnerability, Healing, and the Road Up

• KENDAWIZ

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Thank you for joining me on this remarkable adventure of a sanctuary. It's your boy Ken the Whiz. Hey, y'all. This is an exciting part of what I like to call a life's journey. Um, aka a saints journey. I call it that because we all try to embark on this grand adventure, you know, as kids, as adults, to live our truth, live our life, uh, and try to be the uh an example for the for the past, present, and future, right? I try personally to live a life that can be somewhat positive for the most part. It's trying sometimes. It's trying. But this branch of anybody who's been following my work, you know, I started with uh Ken's world, you know, that's a hobby, that's something I just you know like to do on my downtime to release myself from what life is really going on, and you know, I just I still try to give the positive affirmations and uh just some solace in there, just a little bit, but you know, I try to stick with the the theme in hand, you know. But sometimes I be I get kind of caught up. I don't know if you guys really listen, but I try to I try to keep it different. Um but I I I uh I challenged myself to do something that not only speaks my truth, but what millions of other men and women think on an everyday basis, and you know, we are sometimes we do shelter ourselves within this box of life, of what we think is supposed to be right and wrong, and it's not necessarily the case, you know. We just are afraid of our truths being revealed to the masses. This is my prologue, you know, my episode zero. One just to really introduce who Kendall Wiz is and uh what he or what I'm speaking of third party, what I am trying to accomplish and you know release into this world. It's it's a lot of it's a lot of madness and uh anger and fearfulness and resentment and greed that we all forget what the true values are in this life, and so I just try to take a bit of who I am and what I experience, and as I do on Ken Ken's world, you know, give real life scenarios as if we were a part of that. Now, in this case, this is not an anime world, this is real life, and I do take that very seriously to a to a point of like holding my own self accountable for such a time as this, um, but this podcast will speak to who I am as a man, an African-American man, a mixed man, uh, and to shed some light on some my own personal ideals and my own personal perspective on what I think things should be, or what it could be, or what it is, so uh not to go so much into it, but to really give you guys an understanding of who I am uh will be so much better. I think this will be uh my therapy, you know. I'm not people around me are really good at writing, uh, you know, creating on paper. I'm a hands-on, I like to talk. That's my writing, that's my way of releasing. I do talk to a lot of people on an everyday basis, but you know, you know, I might find a few that will stop and we'll just chit-chat, and you know, religion or manly advice or family advice or whatever the case in point at that time is. But this podcast, this body of work I would like to work on, would be not only for it to be a guideline or some type of help to somebody, but a look into what I feel can be eye-opening to some. If I can just touch one person in this world, I'm making a difference. Such a cliche phrase, but from a person like myself, it really means a lot. Um, so I'm going to put a lot of my feelings out here, um, to which is really hard to be vulnerable, you know, especially from a man's perspective. It's extremely hard to be vulnerable. And what I mean by vulnerable, guys, because I feel like there's a lot of misconceptions with vulnerability. There's a lot of podcasts I hear that explains men's point of view from women's and uh men's and women's perspectives, and a lot of that deals with hurt, a lot of that deals with past trauma, um, past experiences with the opposite sex or same sex, however your preference. Uh to be established to to establish something like that means that one you try to live a truth, but the other person rejected it. Or not necessarily reject, but didn't understand it, or didn't even try to understand it. I think vulnerability, in my opinion, is a lack of understanding of oneself and of the other. My people perish from a lack of knowledge. Understand that when we don't have the knowledge to be equipped to survive this war and onslaught of what we call life, it makes things so much harder, it makes things difficult to really traverse, and to get to know somebody means that you yourself have to step back and be unselfish to the other person to allow them to be themselves when a person can be able to can be able to get out of their own way, I think that's where healing and understanding starts. Because a person who's really hard-headed and not wanting to understand other people's point of views because they feel that they don't have to, which within right, it is your prerogative to make that choice, but be wary that when you do that, you're shutting yourself out from either a blessing or an understanding. And listen, I'm only 33. You know, I uh haven't lived a long life, but my awareness, my my awareness and understanding to what I know and feel, I'm not saying I'm better than nobody else, but I feel like I'm blessed to understand that at least to give somebody else uh a way of releasing and expressing themselves to me. You know, I'm not speaking for everybody, you know, relationships are hard, and I'm not even talking about a romantic one, it's just any type of relationship when you're trying to establish a long-lasting relationship. That means that you're giving yourself an opportunity to understand another being, and that's hard, you know, and that's hard to really do to an extent, you know. Most people really don't care about other people's feelings and other people's traumas, hence why we have therapists and we have psychiatric wards and medicines for the mental disorders. I can say this if COVID didn't do anything, it allowed people to live a truth that they wasn't able to do before. I think COVID allowed people to kind of or force, I'm sorry, let me rephrase that, forced people to learn about themselves and to really dive into what it is to be their own person. I don't know if I'm making sense, I'm really just trying to put all my ideas out. Um, but this is obviously I'm not trying to dive into too much, but this is what I will be talking about. Um to just to shed some light on people's understandings, and and I guess for myself too, learning to be okay with who you are, but also not being okay with just being normal or just settling. That's hard within itself as well. But this was just like I said, my my prologue just to introduce what this podcast will be about. This is what I want to call a life podcast, uh, different scenarios, uh, people's understandings to why another person would do certain things, and appear in on myself and how I would deal with certain situations. And obviously, as it grows, you know, I get new ideas and you know, talking to new people, I would definitely have some, you know, uh special guesses, interviews just to understand people's thoughts and and uh people's deductions on how to traverse what we call life. So I will end on this. When we fall, and there's no way up, if you really look at it, you have no other direction but to go up. Never feel like you have failed yourself, never feel that you can never amount to anything. When any person hits rock bottom, the greatest news that any person can tell you is it's not gonna get worse. If you will allow it to, it can, but it only gets better from here. That's the definition of rock bottom. But we see no way out, but the truth is the one way out is up. Thank you guys for tuning in to what I call the beginning of a journey, the beginning of an adventure. It's your boy Kendall Whiz, and you are tuned in to a Saints Journey. Thank you. Peace.