I Make No Apologies for being ME.
Authenticity is so rare that it is considered a "skill". What should be viewed as a characteristic normal to all - it is recognized as abnormal. The quest to fine one-self is sometimes even hidden in reality shows. We comfortably sit in our easy chairs and "watch" sometimes dysfunctional activities because at least their situation is "worse" or "better" than your own. People try to be a "carbon copy" of someone else. Although imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - YOU are God's masterpiece. There is not another physical fingerprint like y our own and God created it that way. Your life is designed to touch "someone" somewhere but we get so wrapped up in being what we are not - sometimes we can get lost in just being who we are.
I am aware that I am rare. I am aware that I don't fit into the status quo - but at the end of the day, I have learned to be okay with that. I am a walking - and talking - and living TRUE STORY. To seek to exaggerate on who I am would take away from the lessons I have learned. You know, I like me. Flawed, broken, wounded and healed... I "really" like ME. After you go "through" some things in life you learn to make decisions - sometimes the decision is difficult particularly when making the choice to "cut some people off". To carry the weight of others can be grueling - now instead of trying to rescue people - I agree in prayer with them - handle my own business - move in private - and answer only to God.
My life has been a journey of ups and downs. An adventure of happy times and lots (and lots) of tears - but it is who I am. When people tell me "I wanna be just like you" - I've said it before - I wanna laugh because no one knows what it takes to be me. Similarly, no one knows what it takes to be YOU.
So what if you were born with darker skin. So what if you have thick things (or thick lips). So what if you are not a size 10 (you are still a perfect 10)!
Rock what you got!
Take all that you are - along with all that you hope to become and be the best at who YOU are. Your life may not be where you want it to be and that's okay. Keep on pushing. Make a bucket list (I have) of things you want to do and then set out to do them. Along the way, you will meet some very interesting people who are ordained to cross your path and the very time and place that you meet.
That is how I met YOU.
I am aware that I am rare. I am aware that I don't fit into the status quo - but at the end of the day, I have learned to be okay with that. I am a walking - and talking - and living TRUE STORY. To seek to exaggerate on who I am would take away from the lessons I have learned. You know, I like me. Flawed, broken, wounded and healed... I "really" like ME. After you go "through" some things in life you learn to make decisions - sometimes the decision is difficult particularly when making the choice to "cut some people off". To carry the weight of others can be grueling - now instead of trying to rescue people - I agree in prayer with them - handle my own business - move in private - and answer only to God.
My life has been a journey of ups and downs. An adventure of happy times and lots (and lots) of tears - but it is who I am. When people tell me "I wanna be just like you" - I've said it before - I wanna laugh because no one knows what it takes to be me. Similarly, no one knows what it takes to be YOU.
So what if you were born with darker skin. So what if you have thick things (or thick lips). So what if you are not a size 10 (you are still a perfect 10)!
Rock what you got!
Take all that you are - along with all that you hope to become and be the best at who YOU are. Your life may not be where you want it to be and that's okay. Keep on pushing. Make a bucket list (I have) of things you want to do and then set out to do them. Along the way, you will meet some very interesting people who are ordained to cross your path and the very time and place that you meet.
That is how I met YOU.
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