It's My 50th

0:00 Cousins, Ken Folks, get on in head. It is the newest episode of your favorite podcast. And of course you don't ready know. It's fine currently under construction. I am your host, King of Welcome. This episode is an extremely and very special episode. Why do you ask them? But why is that a very special episode? Because it is your cousin's birthday? Yes, today, for this episode it is we're celebrating your cousin, your ken Folks birthday. And it's not just any regular birthday, Cousins of ken Folks. This is a milestone. Also, well, there's certain few miles on birthdays in a person's life. You know that constitutes you know, growth or it's something that you can see wisdom. Why I don't know about all that. I don't think I'm to the point of being super wise just yet. But God's working on I'm growing, I'm still growing. I'm still under construction. But look, cousins ken folks, it is my fifties.

1:11 We're celebrating my fiftieth. Now, that may not seem like a big number to some of you, may not seem like such a big deal to some of you, but let me tell you something. This this, this, this is this is monumental. When you make it to your golden year. That says something that means something. Uh that that uh constitutes that God saw fit to allow us to still be here. That don't get me wrong. Now, this is this is a happy episode. This is this is uh uh uh, this is a joyous occasion, true enough. But I'm gonna take a moment to get real with y'all cousins again, folks. Uh, then you know that's a saying I think you know. I mean, I look through look like what I've been through. I don't. I don't some of you uh know my story or some of it rather uh some of you know the things that I've shared with you all cousins again, folks. But I just think it is amazing when you can share the day

2:44 that you no, not much so share, but that you can celebrate the day that you came into this world. And I think everyone should celebrate their birthday, their special day or holiday, whatever you want to call it. I think everyone should celebrate that or you should be celebrated on that day because without that day that you you wouldn't be here. You see, we have a small, finite time in this world to do things. Now, some people say that you only have too true dates the day that you were born and the day that the Creator will transition you. They say, those are only too true dates that you have in this world. And there's a little dash in between those particular dates. That dash, that little small finite point is your opportunity. Is what you do to impact not just this world, but someone's life and even your own life. A few years ago, like I said, most of you know this. A few years ago, I adopted the mantra and the mindset to live my

4:17 life instead of simple existing time. Is that for simple existing cousins and kin folks, we have so much to live for each and every day, whether you think you do or you don't, we have so much to live for that the Creative decided to breathe the birth of life in us again. Each morning we wake up with all our giving faculties. You wake up in your right mind. You can see, you can hear, you can touch, you could taste, you can walk. There's so many of us that can't do that, or can do some of those things. They can't do all of those things. And then there's some of us not waking up in this world at all.

5:09 So for each day that the Creator gives us an opportunity which eld we think for each year that he gives us the opportunity to see another year and another journey on this blue green ball that spends around the big ball of fire in the center of our solar system that we call the Sun. It's an amazing feat It's my fiftieth. It's my fiftieth and the craziest thing I even thought about it recently, just the fact that the day I came into this world, September second, it was Labor Day. It was on a Monday, my fiftieth birthday.

6:04 It's on Labor Day, a Monday. Ironic is that? But that goes to show you the amazingness of God. I don't think anything that I do or I've done, is by my own volition. Yes, we have the choices to make things, but I do believe that a lot of what we do we can't do without the Creator. We can't do it without his you know, his guidance and his volition. I'm not saying that you have to believe what I believe, because you're entited to believe whatever it is that you do as long as you believe in a higher power. As long as you believe in some then that's greater than yourself. So I'm never telling you that you should believe exactly what it is that I believe.

7:08 But it's hard not to deny the fact of existence of a higher power. I'm not gonna get into that in this episode. But there's something I've touched based on before. You all know. You all know me. I give the most highly utmost praise. I know by whose will that I'm still here. I know by whose will that I've made it this far, through all my trials and tribulations, through all my faults, through all the things that I've done, good or bad or whatnot. It's by His grace that I'm still here. Y'all know me, Cousins, can't folks. I've never claimed to be perfect. I've made Mama share a mistake in life. I still make mistakes. But at the end of the day, I knows by whose wills I'm still here, and that his plan for me. He has a plan for me. So I'm taking the time that this.

8:25 I mean, I've done it the last few years, but again this year, for my fifty year, I've taken the time to ensure that I take moments from me, that I celebrate me, that I look not just looking back in the rear view mirror, because if you're always looking in the rearview mirror, you can never see a move or go forward. But I'm taking a moment of reflection, which some of us should do daily and I do manage to try to, but I'm talking about a real moment of reflection over my life and just thank God and just thank you. You have to you have to take the time or take a moment to do so because we're still here. And I know for me, I want to have more of a positive impact, leave a positive imprint when God tells me taps to my shoulder and say hey, it's time. I want to have more of a positive imprint on the people that I've left in this world than anything. Again, as part of the

10:01 reason we created currently under construction, as part of the reason that we do what we do, that's part of the mission of we continue to uplift and encourage all of our listeners while having meaningful dialogue. So that's that, that's that is what I want. That is that is my my mission for myself going forward. My gift to myself is to enjoy the happiness that you can help create, enjoy the happiness that I can help create. You see, cousins, came folks. A lot of times we can create happiness, but we don't take the time to enjoy it because we're still in go mode. And now, don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with still being in gomo. There's nothing wrong with being, as some people call it, grind mold or survival mode or whatever the case may be. But you have to take a moment to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Nothing wrong with being all business. There's

11:39 nothing wrong with that. I'm not dismissing that. I'm not discounting that in any shape, form or fashion. But I choose going forward to take the time to enjoy the fruits of my labor for the moments that I create, to enjoy them. Mhm. We owe it to our you, we owe it to ourselves and you do. We take so much time to make sure everyone else is okay that we neglect ourselves sometimes. Cousins again, folks, Again, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that, but make sure that we take the time to take care of ourselves.

12:43 You have to. Who's gonna look out for you better than you? Huh? Who's going to look out for you better than you? With exception of the almighty nobody can. So take the time and make sure we take the time to celebrate small accomplishments, small things, big things and more. We just have this one life in this world, cousins, n folks, in this world. Like I said, we just have one life, perreo. We just have one life in this world. Celebrate it, Celebrate you enjoy it. You deserve it.

13:40 Don't stop telling yourself or I don't have time. Stop telling yourself, Well, I'll do it later on, or I'll do it in a few months, or I'll do it next year. Forget that, because then again, when that time comes again that you set aside, they say this, when you're gonna do it, you're gonna put it off again and again and again, and then it's gonna come up next thing you know, it's several years later. Stop it. Celebrate you, take the time, make the time, make the time.

14:25 Celebrate your loved ones special days, Show them that they appreciate, show them that you appreciate them being here, show them that you love them. For being here and I promise you to me in the world. That mean the world to them. But what I want to tell you more than anything, cousins and kin folks, celebrate you, Celebrate you. You deserve it. You do. You deserve to be celebrated, even if nobody else does. You take the time to celebrate you, whether you just take yourself to dinner, go take yourself shopping, go for a ride, get yourself a drink and a great movie and some snacks. Celebrate you.

15:30 It doesn't take a group of people. Now. Again, if those people band together just to celebrate you, that's amazing in itself. But I'm saying for you, you yourself. You make sure that you take the time to celebrate you. You don't have to wait on anyone else. And again, if they band together and do so, that is amazing and that it's great. I'm all ford, But just make sure that you take the time to celebrate you on every level. I ain't many get deep today. Cousins can't folks, why celebrating my birthday? Cousins again, folks, man, I love y'all are some of the amazing people. I've already received a boatload of emails for those who already knew my my birthday was coming up. I really appreciate you all.

16:37 I appreciate the the shout outs. I appreciate the the birthday messages, the birthday gifts. Gifts I mean not not not not I received a gift from anyone, just ship, but the gifts, you know, the the little thing you should put together, that kind of dance or light up or whatever. I appreciate those. I just appreciate you all with just taking the time out to let your cousin know that, hey, that you appreciate him, that you're wanted to wish him well on his and his day. That that means the world to me. That means the world to me, because again, I couldn't do this without you all. It is your support that that makes this happen. It is your love and my love for you all and us as a community that makes this possible, that makes currently under construction what it is, what has been for the last six seasons, and what it's going to continue to be going forward in this sixth season and on to the next ones. I appreciate you all so much, and I'm going to ensure that I am going to enjoy my fiftieth to the fullest, not just today, but this golden year, to the fullest. I'm gonna be fifty again for the next for the next three hundred and sixty something plus days. So I am here for it.

18:01 I am all for it. And God is so amazing. I'm here to tell you I am grateful to see this beautiful golden year. There's nothing like it. Yeah, yesterday, I was just forty nine. Day before the days some days before, I was just forty nine. But it's my fiftieth. Shout out to the class of Wasman High School in nineteen ninety two and and everybody that was born in the year in nineteen seventy four. We're fifty. We're fifty, and we look good all right Cause, Kip, folks, i'monea gett ready to get on up out of here. Listen.

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21:21 Enjoy yourself, celebrate yourself each and every day. Have a great day, cousins of king folks. It's my fifty. I love you all. Peace,