Y-o-u

Why is that we're always trying to be somebody else?

I mean, we're born. We go to kindergarten. (I know there's a little bit that goes on between being born and going to kindergarten.) And then it happens. We want to be "like Johnny" or "like Karen" (or like whoever it may be that happens to be in our class that's quote "popular" at the time).

And then time goes by and we get older. Our horizons enlarge. And that thing that happened to us in kindergarten happens again. It stays with us (many of us). We want to be like the guitar player in the rock band or the soccer player who scored the winning goal or the model on the cover of Vogue or the Miss (pick your state) on the pageant stage ~ or it's somebody else.

And all the while and down through the years (and day after day after day after day) that we do this, something is lost, missing, remains unknown.

And that something is (spell it): Y-o-u.

The person we were meant to be is stunted or it never develops (at least to the fullest potential). The he/she that was meant to blossom forth from our own heart and mind and personality doesn't materialize ~ because we're too busy fantasizing, "If only I could be like...."

And our families lose out. Our business associates and the world loses out.

We lose out, too.

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