Be the Change.....

Why?  Why do people hide behind facades?  What is so wrong with being who you are?  Why can't people accept and own their feelings, thoughts, actions? 

In the guise of trying to lead the "perfect" life, trying to live up to everyone else's standards, lives are lost in the process.  Thoughts like "One day this will be better." "One day I will feel different."  "If I do this or buy that, that will be the milestone that will change me.  The inside me will finally meld with the outside me" will get you nowhere.  Except twenty or thirty years down the road wondering "Where did my life go?"  Then what will you do? 

What a waste.  Just a waste of a perfectly good life.  Admitting mistakes, learning from them, and moving is the natural course of events.  Holding on with everything you have to a life that is unsatisyfing and unfullfilling just to keep from making waves is mournful.  You might as well drift out to sea and succomb to the ocean as to drown in a life that you don't want or enjoy.

The defense of its what's best for others is a crock of s***.  Does anyone REALLY believe that hiding your soul and pretending to be something or someone your not benefits those around you?  Unhappy parents make unhappy kids.  Unhappy spouses make unhappy spouses.  Unhappy employees make unhappy bosses.  The great thing about the boss scenario is at least your sorry ass will get fired - the choice will be made for you.

I'm not advocating selfishness.  I'm advocating life.  Life is for the living.  Live it.

It takes much more courage to live the life of who we are than to live the life that is who others think we are.

Be the change you want to see.