We recently connected with Spitfire Sparks and have shared our conversation below.
Spitfire, thank you so much for joining us. You are such a positive person and it’s something we really admire and so we wanted to start by asking you where you think your optimism comes from?
This question stuck out to me today, so I decided to run with it. People tend to ask me this fairly regularly, and sometimes I feel like I have the perfect answer, and other times I’m completely stumped. On my best days my optimism comes from the fact that I feel truly blessed to have a chance to thrive at life and create the reality of the dreams that I have in my mind. Everything is filled with hope, luck feels as if its shining on me, the wind is at my back, and things just feel smooth. Like cruising with a current, just flowing as it progresses me forward. These days are easy to be optimistic, and I feel like that can be a double edged sword for people..
Enter the not so good days, the random off days, and downright terrible days. We all have them, they are a part of life the same as everything else. I rely on the focus of three things in these times to try and help lift myself through it. First and foremost, you must act with, and give yourself, grace. Understanding that you won’t be in the same happy mood or mindset all the time in itself becomes an asset because you know it is temporary, as anything else.
Secondly is mindset. Control is a very under focused on aspect of happiness. Different people prefer different levels of control over their lives, there’s no one answer for everybody, but it’s important to note where you stand. It’s very easy to “give up” controls in life, and I hear it very often where people just slipped into it and garnered slow resentment over it while accepting it instead of trying to change it. YOU create your reality, YOU create the progress, YOU create the goals.
Finally, is hope. There’s a million quotes about this, but I always love the “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” Things may be bleak, things may be nothing like you imagined, or rough, or any of a thousand other situations, but every day is a chance to get up and try and mould it into something you are proud of.
“Optimism isn’t a belief that things will automatically get better, it’s a conviction that we can make things better.”
Thanks, so before we move on maybe you can share a bit more about yourself?
My name is Luke, or Spitfire Sparks. I am a rapper/producer/jack of all trades focused on leaving a positive imprint in everything I do. I truly strive on a daily basis to be a beacon of light and positivity to help lift and elevate others. Music is the universal language, and I strive to speak it fluently. If you have gotten this far, reach out on social media to me, I’d love to connect and share with anyone who has thoughts on this topic!
Looking back, what do you think were the three qualities, skills, or areas of knowledge that were most impactful in your journey? What advice do you have for folks who are early in their journey in terms of how they can best develop or improve on these?
Empathy, Awareness, and Experience.
Empathy is hard development wise. I really don’t know how it happens other than experience and understanding. The best way I can think of it is to imagine feelings rather than specific events when thinking about other people. It’s not about how YOU would feel necessarily, but IF you felt how they felt, imagine that feeling and all that comes with it.
Awareness is something that can always be developed and improved. We as a species heavily rely on awareness and “unspoken” cues and identifiers for understanding. Honing these skills can definitely help you decipher situations and scenarios that may be harder to see at face value or spoken value.
Experience is the best teacher, we’ve all heard it. Sometimes as simple as it sounds, it’s just very hard to imagine or fully understand things you have never gone through, or feelings you have never felt, or challenges you have never overcome. Furthermore sometimes people “experience” things, but don’t try to learn from them or understand them, which can lead to incorrect or skewed perceptions on said things.
How would you spend the next decade if you somehow knew that it was your last?
The scale of grandeur would of course change if I knew the hourglass was getting low, but I’d like to think that I would stay consistent to my current life, and I think that’s a big overlying point to the whole optimism thing. I wake up every day and TRY to make my life match what I want it to be in my mind, and that in itself is ever evolving. I also try to embody the spirit of small but mighty. I may only be able to create small kindnesses or small blips of light, but a million small lights shines brighter and goes farther than one giant lighthouse. It’s a domino effect, and truly comes down to creating the world you actually are excited to be apart of, and trying to make that happen everyday.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://linktr.ee/spitfiresparks
- Instagram: https://instagram.com/spitfiresparks
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/SirSpitfireSparks
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