who are you? revisited

since i’ve been under the weather and since the weather itself has been wildly fluctuating and since my life is feeling a bit wild too

this week i’ve decided to resurrect an old blog post from january 2015 asking what i think is a very important question that we should try to answer from time to time     “the most common despair is not choosing, or willing, to be oneself. but the deepest form of despair is to choose to be another than oneself.”

-19th century danish philosopher soren kierkegaard     who are you?

do you even know? did you ever know?

would you recognize yourself if you caught a glimpse of the real you?

what is your true longing? your true desire? your true essence?

how many times have you done the accepted thing? gone down the expected path? sacrificed your own needs and wants in order to stay safe? to not stand out? sacrificed your authenticity?     we all waver at times we second-guess we make choices we regret or worse yet, we don’t choose at all

are you living your own life? or someone else’s?

don’t waste your time today is your only opportunity be the person you want to be the one struggling to break free    

    perhaps only a wishful daydream at present but we do have a choice each of us can choose to bring forth the exquisite sunshine of our soul the actual person we know we can be     go now conquer the fears that keep you from blooming

don’t wait don’t wait don’t wait     who are you?

choose to be oneself do not despair         tweet