The art of being yourself
Have you ever heard something like:”Darling, just be yourself, because when you’re yourself, you’re fabulous”
This sounds so simple, but actually not that easy
Sometimes I feel like the older we get, the more masks we have to wear for ourselves, which must be so tired. But most of us are not brave enough to take these masks off.
What are we afraid of? Judgement of other people, opinions of other people,... but how about you? Where is your opinion about you?
That’s why I bring you the topic of today : The art of being your(best)self!
When it comes to being yourself, when it comes to being in the world, the minute you showed up, the minute you incarnated, you were given a life sentence. Now, you don’t know how long you got. Maybe you got 70 years and I got 62. We have no idea how long we got. Also, where you’re born, when you’re born, to whom you’re born, all these things have a certain influence, or impact on how you become who you become.
So what I want you to think about is not what your life expectancy is, but what do you expect from life? And what does life expect from you? Those are more interesting questions. And the two places in life where you are awesome at being yourself, you’re fantastic at being yourself, one of them is when you’re a kid.
When you’re a kid, you’re fantastic at being yourself because you don’t know how to disguise your differentness. That’s why you see kids on the beach, you know, naked up until the age of five, and then suddenly at the age of six or seven they want a bathing suit, they want a bikini. Who’s got a four-year-old boy?
I used to watch an interview video asking a celeb about her peer pressure (if she had). The question was:”Are you nervous you’re going to perform after her?” And her answer just stayed till in my mind up to now:” Have you ever seen me perform? I am the Lady Jill Scott. I am a poet, and a singer, and a lot of other things. We all have our own thing — that’s the magic– and everybody comes with their own sense of strength, and their own queendom. Mine could never compare to hers, and hers could never compare to mine.”
That’s the thing - mind your own business, give your best effort ever, never stop improving your ability, you’ll get where you belong to.
Hope you have a chill weekend ahead! Cheers, EmmaQ
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