Life is about choices we make. “Yes, we can” and “Just do it!”,
such iconic slogans. Are they there to inspire us or are they thrown at us?
It takes courage to choose.
It takes courage to choose not to play it safe and risk assuming to have
failed. It takes courage to face the feeling of vulnerability, loss, unworthiness.
It takes courage to open our souls.
Consequently we hide, promoting
only our successes, showing only our strengths, and laying out only our accepted
and conventional being. And by doing so we get tedious, we bore others to tears
because it is in the admission of our vulnerabilities, in the disclosure of our
fragilities, in the display of our authentic incoherence that we grow
interesting and likeable. It is impossible to get bored when a person tells you,
sincerely, what they have suffered, failed at or what were they exposed to.
We live with the sense of
greatness. That one needs to be magnificent. And to one extent we are indeed
magnificent. However we are not by conforming but to embracing each individual
uniqueness and thus we should cultivate a sense of humility as well.
It takes courage, to assume
one did not really changed but simply allowed the mask to fall off. And I would
like to invite you to step forward and take the mask off too, while communicating
to me.
Patricia
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