Standing tall

Who are you? Yes, I mean you there, reading this...Who are you, exactly?

Have you ever looked in the mirror and asked yourself that question? For most the answer would be no, probably because the answers are often not what a person wants to hear or admit to and possibly the answers are too difficult to find in the first place. And so people float along, blending in with society and may miss the opportunity for a best life opportunity.

The answer seems quite simple to me though...Each of us are, and can only ever be, ourselves.

We live in a world loaded with information; No matter where we turn it bombards us from all angles providing images and ideals, concepts and opinions that may or may not be relevant to each of us as an individual. I believe it is easy to get lost amongst it and forget that as an individual we have the choice to be whomever we choose to be: Not someone else, but the person we ourselves wish to be.

Finding silence is the first step to finding out who we want to be; Blocking out the noise, the chaos of information that assaults us...And asking ourselves who we are now and who do we want to be is the next.

It's a tough question and as the quote mentions below, it can be a fight...However isn't it a fight like that worth the effort? I think the answer has to be yes, every single time.

Standing tall and and apart from others, to be an individual, is not something that is widely promoted these days, but to find it within to take that stand, to seek one's own reality can bring a better clarity of thought and more satisfactory results. The option is conformity and the risk of losing the best-life opportunity.

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." - E. E. Cummings