WHO ARE YOU?
“Don’t let the expectations and opinions of other people
affect your decisions. It’s your life, not theirs. Do what
matters most to you; do what makes you feel alive and
happy. Don’t let the expectations and ideas of others limit
who you are. If you let others tell you who you are, you are
living their reality — not yours. There is more to life than
pleasing people. There is much more to life than following
others’ prescribed path. There is so much more to life than
what you experience right now. You need to decide who
you are for yourself. Become a whole being. Adventure.”
Roy T. Bennett
It is an innocent, throwaway question, or is it? It is much deeper than
that and really goes to the core of our being. Our soul. Why we are
here? What we are going to do with our lives? Are we merely uniform
parts or cogs to fit in a predetermined system? Parts. Throw away parts
that are easily replaceable? That would seem what society trains us
for. Are we machines who are programmed to go to work, earn money,
pay taxes, then punch out and “die”? I think not. We are divine spirits
placed in our roles and placed through some higher power, in this
space, in this time, in this set of circumstances. What are we going
to choose to do with all we have been gifted? Be uniform parts in a
predetermined uniform system? No, not I! I choose to accept what I
cannot control but know what I can control and steer my own divine
ship. Take care of my mind. Take care of my body. Take care of my
spirit. Take care of other people whose lives cross paths with my own.
Whatever I am called on to do I will do it and do my best. Accept it.
Act in accordance with my own virtues and values. My own sense of
right and wrong. Always doing my best. Always being the best version
of myself in the moment.
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