Be True To You

So at 38 I am learning you can't please everyone. Most of the time, honestly, you can't please ANYONE. We bend, we change, we conform to what WE think people want us to be. And where we end up is confused but most importantly, we end up not living our best. We are each given a gift...a gift of uniqueness, originality, and of purpose. If we are constantly trying to please others we are trying to live out other's ideas of purpose for us and our unique original selves get lost.

Favorite child author Dr. Seuss says it best: "Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you'er than you!" I have made countless choices based soley on people's perceptions of what I SHOULD have done. Instead of ending up happy and fulfilled, I have been left with making other choices...harder choices to put me back on the path I was supposed to be on. After close to 5 years, I can say I have my happy back. My voice may shake when I am speaking the truth, but at least it speaks it! The fear of rejection and the worry of not being good enough fades a little bit with each day of me perservering, pushing forward...straining towards the goal of being true to me. My children see a happier mom, a truer spirit, a soul-full lady living out who God intended me to be. An original. A gift. A purpose. We all have this gift inside...a gift of who WE TRULY ARE and not who the world wants us to be. Share it without fear and run your own race. "Nothing can bring you peace but yourself." Ralph Waldo Emerson