If you are doubting that you will ever have something hero-related in your life – consider the possibility that the seeds have already been planted.  A foreshadowing of what is to come may have already happened, but you didn’t see it that way. Sometimes past events need time to germinate, to grow, and to blossom.

For me, a foreshadowing of becoming “Fantastic Frank” happened when I was working for Eastman Kodak Co. This was about 6 or 7 years before I was trapped in a fire, when I wrote the lyrics to a song, for a project to raise funds for the United Way in Rochester, NY.

The song I wrote is called “Today’s Not Gonna Be Like Yesterday.” To get ideas for the lyrics, I visited a facility for people with disabilities. At that point in my life, I hadn’t had any contact with people with disabilities

Now that I have a traumatic brain injury, I am moved to tears when I recall some of the words that I had written many years ago, because I feel they were a foreshadowing of the event that was going to happen to me.

The song begins with these words:

Today’s not gonna to be like yesterday
When I was upset with the world’s own selfish way.
I was too blind to see
The selfish one was me.

And I met the girl with the sunshine eyes,
Who smiled so peacefully.
When she turned to speak, I realized that she couldn’t speak clearly.

Little was I to know that about 6 years later, I would be the one who could no longer speak clearly.

The other words that really get me are:

“Today’s not going to be like yesterday,
When I was indifferent to the way people treat nature’s harsh realities.
And one of those people was me.”

Remember, when you point your finger at someone, three fingers point back at yourself.

I suggest that you revise your life, while on the look-out for moments that really struck a chord with you. Then compare that event to what you are doing now, and what you’ve become passionate about. How do they relate? What is the foreshadowing in your own life?

by Fantastic Frank Johnson
Author of “From Flawed to Fantastic”

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