Thought 1#: Being true to ourselves. ‘There is no such thing as a malformed cloud.’ I came across that idea in my reading some time back and it stuck with me. But we often beat ourselves out of shape trying to be all things to all people. This only causes pain and inner conflict. The above analogy directs us to avoid being the manifestation of others’ desires and expectations. We also need to know ourselves enough to ensure that our desires are not simply the subconscious projections of what others want from us. Is what we want... really what we want? Sometimes we risk being strangers even to ourselves. We must also remember that we are what we are; we are not malformed because we are ‘different’ and we are not malformed if we do not ‘fit in.’ We do not need to be chameleons just to get by. Our colours are our choice. No sunset is exactly the same. As Bruce Lee, was who an excellent philosopher, said: be like water. Yes, we are fluid. True, we are not fixed. But it needn’t be the glass receptacle - ie others - that decides our shape. We are: the glass and the water. We are both cloud and the vista in which it moves at its own pace and in its own grace. Be your own cloud. Nobody owns your sky.

Posted by poorplayer at 2019-12-31 20:42:24 UTC