“Life isn't
about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
I stumbled
upon this quote, and man did it resonate with me. Simple message carries the
weight of a thousand elephants. In this life we often find ourselves in search
of who we are. We hear phrase after phrase all echoing that we must travel, or
we must take death-defying risks in order to find ourselves. We must find
ourselves in order to be happy. We spend much of our time preaching about being
unique, and our own person. We categorize ourselves into groups of leaders and
followers, and we emulate the characteristics we believe make us good people.
In our search to find who we are, we often discover we are not who we thought
we were. We realize that were different, that we don't quite fit in a box, not
because were fat, but because we aren’t meant to fit comfortably, and perfectly
into boxes. When we fail to find ourselves, we become sad and desperate because
we are failing. “I’m 21, what the fuck am I doing with my life?” or “I’m 47,
what have I done with my life?” or even “I just graduated from high school, and
I don't know what I want to be, what’s wrong with me?” Life isn’t about existing;
it isn’t about achieving goals, or accumulating money. Life isn’t meant to be
perfectly planned out.
--LIFE IS ABOUT LIVING!—
This quote
sums something up that I have thought about for a very long time. I don't want
to find myself. I don't want to look under every rug, and around every corner
trying to find who I am. I want to create the person I am. I want to be unique
I want people to who know me, to truly see that I am a good person, and not for
the typical reasons. When I die, I want to leave behind a memory of someone who
lived their life their way. I want people to remember all the good I did during
my time here, and to learn through my actions that there are no failures in
life.
Let that
sink in for a second…
Even if you
have spent your life in prison, or you have spent your life homeless on the
street, that does not mean you are a failure. You chose to create yourself in
that light. You are who you want to be, and yeah there are consequences for
every decision we make. Not just from our negative decisions but from our
positive ones too. We have become so focused as a species on success and
failure, right and wrong, that we have forgotten that we were meant to live in
the gray area.
So as you
begin to ponder New Year’s Resolutions, and how your life isn’t where “it
should be.” Remember that you must create yourself, be the change you want to
see in the world. Don't live your life to someone else’s standards, live it to
your own. Like Jimi Hendrix said, “I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my
life, the way I want to.”
The results of
this will be a world truly unique with all different shades of gray, black and
white. Through this uniqueness, great things will be experienced.
Love, Laughter,
and most importantly, we will cease to merely exist, and truly, wonderfully
live.
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