As I look at others who seem to be their authentic selves, I see the value in them and what they offer to the world. Then I ask what am I contributing? Where does my value lie? Also I wonder if they feel they are being their authentic selves and they just never think about these things the way I do?
These days with so much information available to us we can see what others are doing from places all over the world. The activities run the gamut of simple to extreme, with the degree of difficulty ranging from a “no-brainer” to “requires unimaginable courage”.
It can be very inspiring or it can make you feel inferior or superior. Feeling inferior can stop you in your tracks from pursuing what you thought you wanted to do.
Taking charge of yourself, rather than do things because of the “voices of your past” (aka, well-intended friends and loved ones), means you first have to know who you are and who you are not. It means you have to be aware of what you like, what you are good at, what makes you joyous, what you want in life.
As a result of several months of introspection and soul-searching for the authentic me and what I like and want most in my life, I learned a lot of things about myself.
After I made the list, I reread it and I was surprised.
I said to myself, “Wow! That’s me? I can work with that.”
We know that the choices we make or don’t make in our lives, determine our path through this life.
When we stand there scratching our head and asking ourselves, “How did it come to this?”, we can probably figure out the reason or reasons if we examine the choices we made along the way.