Okay. Anyone remember people saying something like the following: “If we looked up “gullible” (or fill in the word people used for you) in the dictionary your picture would be there.”??? Well, I once knew a girl and a woman whose picture would have shown up in many places in a dictionary based on what others said about her.
Here’s a whole bunch of words people have used to describe this girl and woman I once knew:
Too Irresponsible
Too Loud
Too Sad
Too Happy
Too Quiet
Too Much
Too Mean
Too Shy
Too Serious
Too Sensitive
Too Smart
Too Needy
Too Weak
Too Skinny
Too Fat
So Clingy
So Stupid
So Annoying
So Disgusting
So High Maintenance thinking she was low maintenance
So Scared
So much potential
So scattered
So stubborn
So willful
So naive
So impulsive
This woman at last pulled off the Too Too-s, donned hiking boots, skinny jeans, and a sweatshirt, and instead of living a So So life chose to skip into the forest of her dreams, discover the delights that lived there deep in the woods, and emerge with armloads of logs and kindling to light her burning hot fire of desires, to share the logs and light with as many human beings as she could, and then maybe some of those individuals wouldn’t feel the so so of fears that stopped them from skipping into the forest, or sauntering into oceans, or hiking mountains, or sweating in deserts or running in prairies or hustling to the urban groove while finding, holding, growing their own Divine planted seeds of passions, aspirations.
Life’s Too Short and So Precious not to align with what makes you come alive, what wakes you up in the morning to another glorious day.
Yes, you have indeed earned the right to be who you are, Larry. Thank you for such meaningful reflections that affirm. I appreciate you, my friend.
Well said my friend, In the end we are at our best when we are who we are and not who others want us to be. I always say I have earned the right to be who I am and that is all I need.