Deep Choprah's voice when he is discussing deep things.
Anywho, I was driving today to work and I looked to my left and saw this guy (with a real cd player!) dancing his way down the side walk. The first thing I thought was "Wow good for him!" Like, I think that takes serious courage to just put on your blinders and be yourself. But then I thought what if we all had the courage to do that? How exciting would the world be if we all had the courage to just dance, to just be ourselves? I think we'd have a grand time. I think it would be beautiful.
Imagine for a moment how you feel when you have the opportunity to be the truest and best version of yourself surrounded by the people who allow you to be said version. Now, take that feeling and transfer it into a recent frustrating event. How would you have handled that situation differently or been more successful if you just allowed yourself to be, well, you? For me, all the events that would change into better experiences would add up to years of my life. I wish that in the past I would have spent more time living like that guy with the cd player today. But, being able to express yourself more truthfully and wholly takes time and a lot of failure:
In the past few years, for me, its forced me to learn how to (well, try to):
-not live with guilt
-love my mistakes
-remember that I'm me, no one on Earth can be me or do the things I do or fill the space of air I do just the way I do it.
-invest my time in things my future self will thank me for later
-choose to be grateful and see the glass half full, always
I've failed over and over and over again at the above, but I'm human and fallible and growing up and that's beautiful because all of us are always all of those things. But anywho... Naturally growing up forces you to realize the endless possibilities during our short lives and that no one can do everything. As a point of survival we all have to find our niche and gravitate to one or a few of them, but not attempt to do and be everything.
In my shortshortshort 18 years I've learned that I love the following things about me:
I make people laugh and I really like that.
I really like my hair
I think I'm rather imaginative
I'm always ten trillion years behind big news (or really any news at all) but I don't care
My eyes up close look like there's a sunflower inside each one because of the yellow flecks around my irises. I think that's wicked.
The list could go on and then I'd feel superficial and we'd be even farther away from the point, which is this: be like that dude dancing down the road with his out of date cd player and love yourself enough to not care if everyone else does.
So here's a really over-due challenge: FOR ONCE ACTUALLY COMMENT BELOW with four things you've learned to love about yourself. They can be really stupid (and if it makes you feel any better commenting can be done anonymously).
The cd dude and I would really love if you showed love for yourself and then spread that love around.
I'm convinced cd, dancin' dudes is more of what this world needs...so why not start here?
al finito...